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Brecon Jazz Festival 2024, Jazz & Film Weekend, Sunday August 18th 2024.

The final day of the 2024 Brecon Jazz Festival and a screening of the film "Django", plus related live music performances from Gareth Evans and from Afternoon In Paris with guest Mike Hatchard.

Brecon Jazz Festival 2024, Jazz & Film Weekend, Saturday August 17th 2024.

A screening of the film "The Jazz Baroness", about Thelonious Monk & Baroness “Nica” Rothschild, plus musical performances from the Geoff Eales / Ashley John Long Duo and the Julian Costello Trio.

Brecon Jazz Festival 2024, Main Weekend, Sunday 11th August 2024.

Concert performances featuring the Rachel Starritt / Glen Manby Quartet w. guest Steve Kirby, Siglo Section Band, Eliane Correa's Cuban Quintet, Rosie Frater-Taylor Quintet and The Fabulous Red Diesel

Brecon Jazz Festival 2024, Main Weekend, Saturday 10th August 2024.

Concert performances featuring the Tatiana Eva-Marie Quartet, Jen Wilson's Dylan Thomas Jazz Suite Sextet & the Geoff Eales Trio, plus other more informal appearances from Wonderbrass a.o.

Brecon Jazz Festival 2024, Main Weekend, Friday 9th August 2024.

Ian Mann enjoys the first full day of the Festival and performances from Zach Breskal, Steven Kirby, Kat Rees, N'famady Kouyate, Ursula Harrison, Dionne Bennett and The Mingus Project.

Brecon Jazz Festival, Family & Jazz Day, Gardens and Marquee, Castle Hotel, Brecon, 04/08/2024.

An enjoyable and entertaining day of music making featuring three very different bands, all operating underneath the broad stylistic umbrella that we call jazz.

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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