Jazz in the West Midlands - October 6th - 12th 2025.
Monday, October 06, 2025
A roundup of jazz, funk & soul gigs to check out this week in the West Midlands area. Listings supplied by Dave Fuller of Music Spoken Here, Worcester.
The Week Ahead
A roundup of jazz, funk, blues and soul gigs to check out this week in the West Midlands area.
Monday 6
RBC Salsa Orchestra
Eastside Jazz Club, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
Jazz Pan Pan *
Pan-Pan, 25D Floodgate St, Birmingham B5 5SL
Kenilworth Jazz: The Burt Bacharach Jazz Experience ft Alex Steele & Catherine Sykes Quartet
Kenilworth Rugby Club Glasshouse Lane, Kenilworth CV8 2AJ
Tuesday 7
Jose Zalba-Smith - ARRIBA CUBA Project and special guest Javier Zalba
The Bradshaw Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
Digbeth Jazz: Poncha!
The Night Owl, 17-18 Lower Trinity Street, Birmingham B9 4AG
Etuk Ubong
The Jam House, 3-5 St Pauls Square, Birmingham B3 1QU
Tommy Scott Trio: Homage to McCoy Tyner
Smokey Joe’s, 16 Bennington St, Cheltenham GL50 4ED
Wednesday 8
Bedford Street Jazz Jam ft Georgie Mason
Bedford Street Bar, 4 Bedford Street, Leamington Spa CV32 5DY
Sutton Coldfield Trad Jazz Club: Richard Leach Street Band
Boldmere Sports & Social Club, 323 Boldmere Road, Sutton Coldfield B73 5HQ
The Yolanda Penn Trio
The Queens Arms, 150 Newhall Street, Birmingham B3 1RY
Henry Newman Jazz Experience
The Trumpet, 58 High Street, Bilston, Wolverhampton WV14 0EP
Thursday 9
The Ellington Piano Project
Eastside Jazz Club, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
Music Spoken Here presents Robert Castelli & BOOM (UK)
The Marr’s Bar, 12 Pierpoint Street, Worcester WR1 1TA
Jazz Coventry: The Steve “Big Man” Clayton Trio
The Albany Club, 10 Earlsdon St, Earlsdon, Coventry CV5 6EG
Swing That Music with the Down For The Count All-Stars
Albany Theatre, Albany Road, Coventry CV5 6JQ
The Three Degrees
The Jam House, 3-5 St Pauls Square, Birmingham B3 1QU
Mike Hall / Richard Wetherall
Alsager Golf & Country Club, Audley Rd, Alsager Stoke-on-Trent ST7 2UR
Soul Sessions Brum: Funktober Festival with The Honey Drops / Hunzz / Astrofunken / Collective Sleep
The Night Owl, 17-18 Lower Trinity Street, Birmingham B9 4AG
Friday 10
Birmingham Jazz: Yetii
1000 Trades, 16 Frederick St, Birmingham B1 3HE
B:Music Free Jazz Fridays: Allexa Nava
Jennifer Blackwell Performance Space, Symphony Hall, Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2EA
Dom Pipkin
Temperance, 33 Bath St, Leamington Spa CV31 3AF
Up4 the Downstroke
The Jam House, 3-5 St Pauls Square, Birmingham B3 1QU
Alex Clarke with the Tim Amann Trio
The Trumpet, 58 High Street, Bilston, Wolverhampton WV14 0EP
Droitwich Jazz Club: Swing From Paris
Cutnall Green Memorial Hall, Addis Lane, Droitwich WR9 0NE
Saturday 11
Sax in the City with The Notebenders
Jennifer Blackwell Performance Space, Symphony Hall, Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2EA
Shrewsbury Jazz: Nigel Price Organ Trio
The Hive, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury, SY1 1TE
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The Dome, Bramall Music Building, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT
Errol Linton Band
Temperance, 33 Bath St, Leamington Spa CV31 3AF
Up4 the Downstroke
The Jam House, 3-5 St Pauls Square, Birmingham B3 1QU
Lady Nade sings Nina Simone
The Edge Arts Centre, William Brookes School, Farley Road, Much Wenlock, Shropshire TF13 6NB
Swing From Paris
Wixford Village Hall, Wixford, Alcester B49 6DA
Sunday 12
Jazz at The Ruin *
The Ruin, 92 Floodgate Street, Deritend, Birmingham B5 5SR
SwingShift10 ft Robert Fowler
Jaguar Social Club, Fenton Road, Coventry CV5 9PS
Solihull Jazz: Kevin Grenfell’s Jazz & Boogie Band
Broomfields Hall, Union Road, Solihull B91 3DH
The People’s Big Band
Snobs, 200 Broad Street, Birmingham B15 1SU
* Indicates known regular event but no lineup published by the promoter at time of writing. Click the link for latest details.
Have a great week!
Dave Fuller
Instigator, Music Spoken Here
http://www.musicspokenhere.org