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Fifth Annual Bath Jazz Weekend, Widcombe Social Club, Bath, Friday 3rd January 2025.

Ian Mann enjoys the first night of the 5th Bath Jazz Weekend and live performances by quartets led by pianist Ky Osborne & trumpeter Laura Jurd plus a screening of the 1959 film "Odds Against Tomorrow

Guildhall Jazz Festival, Milton Court Concert Hall, London, 20-24 November 2024.

Ian Mann enjoys this 'Festival within a Festival' and a wide ranging series of musical performances from jazz students and alumni of The Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

EFG London Jazz Festival 2024, Second Sunday, 24/11/2024.

On the final day of the Festival Ian Mann enjoys an Australian Jazz Showcase, the improvised music event Moment's Notice and the sounds of the Deschanel Gordon Trio.

EFG London Jazz Festival 2024 - Second Saturday, 23/11/2024.

Ian Mann enjoys live music performances by harper Trio, Otto Gumaelius and Mutapa Calling, the Claude Depa / Clare Hirst Quintet and the Alice Zawadzki / Fred Thomas / Misha Mullov-Abbado Trio.

EFG London Jazz Festival 2024 - Friday 22/11/2024.

Ian Mann discovers the music of the Kielan Sheard Trio at Pizza Express Jazz Club and Marilyn Mazur's Shamania at Milton Court.

EFG London Jazz Festival 2024 - Thursday 21/11/2024.

Ian Mann visits Soho's two premier jazz clubs and enjoys the music of the Shai Maestro Trio at Ronnie Scott's and Ant Law's Unified Theories quintet at Pizza Express.

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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

Power of Gower Big Band Swansea Jazz Club Christmas Party at Arts Wing @Grand Theatre, Swansea.

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Amuse Manouche at The Lion’s Den, Midhurst.

Thursday, December 18, 2025