Researching Jazz magazines #3

To help prepare to create my music magazine I have found multiple magazines from my genre and am going to assess them on what I should do to create a successful music magazine.

This front cover is from the July/August 2010 issue of 'Chicago Jazz Magazine'.
This looks like an appealing front cover as this has multiple parts which look good and make me want to pick this magazine up.

One point which makes this an appealing front cover is that it looks very professional compared to others in such a way that the colour scheme seems very formal. Everything has a black outline text wise which gives it a good touch.

The image itself isn't very appealing to be honest simply because of the fact that it is just an older man stood there smiling slightly with a trumpet variant. it would be better if the image was of a younger or early 30s person playing the piano or mid gig.

I like the idea of the masthead being done in a font which slightly resembles handwriting, giving the magazine a very personal touch and shows the target audience is a very small group of people.

Points I can take from this magazine include script fonts to give the feeling of personal touches in the magazine and the colour scheme as this is a colour scheme which actually works, while breaking a convention that yellow isn't commonly used in jazz magazines. Banners across the top might be a good idea to add more detail onto the front cover.