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EFG London Jazz Festival 2024 - Tuesday 19/11/2024

Ian Mann enjoys performances by the Nicolas Meier World Group at Cadogan Hall and Ill Considered with guest Pete Wareham at The Lower Third.

EFG London Jazz Festival 2024 - Monday 18/11/2024.

Ian Mann enjoys performances by Germana Stella La Sorsa at Cadogan Hall and the double bill of the Nikol Bokova Quartet and Lydian Collective at Crazy Coqs.

EFG London Jazz Festival 2024 - First Sunday, 17/11/2024.

Ian Mann enjoys performances by the World Heart Beat and Julian Joseph Jazz Academies, Norman and Corrie and Mark Kavuma with Banger Factory.

EFG London Jazz Festival 2024 - First Saturday, 16/11/2024.

Ian Mann enjoys performances by the Royal Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra and Ensemble with Winston Rollins & Orphy Robinson, plus Emma Rawicz's new, all star, Visitor From Everywhere quintet.

Jammin’ Juan 2024, Palais des Congress, Juan-les-Pins, France 6th-8th November 2024.

Guest contributor Colin May enjoys the music of five different acts at this annual showcase event. Performers include Pablo Murgier, Christophe Imbs, Giorgi Mikadze, mohs and Ink.

Wall2Wall Jazz Festival, Abergavenny, Sunday Community Afternoon, 29/09/2024.

Ian Mann enjoys an afternoon of free events in Abergavenny including street music, a youth jazz ensemble, an acapella choir and the Jazz Lounge Piano Trail.

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Jazz Mann News

Shrewsbury Jazz Network announce programme for January, February and March 2026.

Sunday, December 14, 2025

Shrewsbury Jazz Network has announced its programme for the first three months of 2026. Events take place at The Hive Music & Media Centre, Shrewsbury. Fully detailed schedule attached.

EFG London Jazz Festival wins “Festival Of The Year” at The LIVE Awards 2025.

Friday, December 12, 2025

EFG London Jazz Festival has been honoured with the prestigious Festival of the Year award at The LIVE Awards 2025, held on 10 December 2025 at Troxy in East London. Press release attached.

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts, New York City, announces the Winter 2026 season of its free POP-UP CONCERTS, January, February, March 2026.

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Miller Theatre’s hour-long, musician-curated Pop-Up Concerts—free, informal, and intimate—bring the audience right onto the stage. 2026 Winter programme attached.

Jazz Gigs & Events

Chris Gibbons Band at Southbound, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.

Saturday, December 13, 2025 - Sunday, December 14, 2025

Darius Brubeck Quartet ‘music of the Brubecks’ at Union Chapel, Islington, London.

Monday, December 15, 2025

Outside UP! at Leicester Jazz House, International Arts Centre, Garden Street, Leicester.

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Amuse Manouche at The Lion’s Den, Midhurst.

Thursday, December 18, 2025

A Winter Solstice Evening with the Aidan Thorne / Will Barnes Duo at The Garden Room, Left Bank Village, Hereford.

Thursday, December 18, 2025