Jane Cornwell is a Melbourne-born, longtime London-based author, journalist and critic writing mainly about jazz and global music, about arts and culture, and also about travel. A former press officer at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, she writes for major newspapers, magazines and online platforms in the UK and Australia. She’s a contributing editor of Songlines magazine, a longtime scribe for Jazzwise, a writer/interviewer for Everything Jazz and is a compere and interviewer for the likes of Womad, Womadelaide and the EFG London Jazz Festival. She writes books, press releases and sleeve notes.
Jane Cornwell: global-leaning, spiritually-informed jazz from out there, and right here in London.
In 2019 she completed a highly regarded Masters degree in Global Creative and Cultural Industries (Distinction) at SOAS, University of London – a course designed to deepen understanding of the Cultural Industries and how they are organised, financed, regulated and have been understood in theory. Her dissertation on the resurgence of jazz music in London – ‘Jazz Refreshed? A Contemporary Jazz Phenomenon’ – involved intensive research, extensive interviews, robust arguments and new ideas. Formerly a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3’s World Routes, now she’s back on the radio.
