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The Best Music Venues in London, Big and Small.
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items If you find yourself in London and fancy some live jazz music, there is a whole range of venues to choose from. Whether it is a small, intimate place, or a larger concert venue, here are some of the best venues in town to suit all pockets and tastes.
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The Best Jazz Venues, Big or Small
The Best Jazz Venues, Big or Small
Within easy access of bus and overground transport routes, Cafe Oto is a cafe by day and a music venue by night. Specialising in improvised and free music, Cafe Oto has a special atmosphere. It featured up and coming artists as well as international ... Where else can you have tea and cake and incredible music into the small hours?
Cafe OTO
Whether you choose the Upstairs venue which hosts a range of musical acts, mostly of the freer variety but also some more traditional musicians, or the smaller, intimate cafe area in their downstairs venue, The Vortex is a London Institution. Just around the corner from Dalston overground and easy to reach by bus, The Vortex is set in Gillette Square, where the venue sometimes hosts outdoor events. Part of London's musical heritage, the Vortex continues to offer a varied and colourful mus...
Vortex Jazz Club
In this intimate setting, in a side street where the queue will be the only sign of the club's presence, you find some impressive artists of high calibre. The Piano Bar is a genuine discovery and attracts top musicians who revel in the close-up and p...
The Piano Bar Soho
A stand-out venue for music, run by musician Steve Rubie since 1976, The 606 Club in Chelsea hosts some of the UK's finest jazz musicians – Jamie Cullum, Jason Rebello, Byron Wallen, Claire Martin, and Ian Shaw to name a few - as well as visiting one...
606 Club
Ninety-One is a renowned bar and music venue. You will find it tucked away just off Brisk Lane at the base of London’s iconic Truman Brewery. It is open six days a week and offers weekly jazz events alongside other music genres and cocktails, beers, ...
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Down a cobbled street near King’s Cross Station, Jamboree hosts three or four jazz gigs each week. On Thursdays, Ewan Bleach & The Cable Street Rag Band play old-style jazz and later, singers from the audience can join in. Some Sundays, Jamboree ...
Jamboree
Found in the cellar of the Duke of Hamilton public house - a building that dates from 1721, just a few minutes walk from Hampstead tube Station, hampstead Jazz Club is a cosy space, entered by descending a slightly precarious flight of stairs found b...
Hampstead Jazz Club
Between Tottenham Court Road Station and The British Museum, The Bloomsbury Club has live music Wednesday to Saturday, showcasing everything from classic jazz to acoustic sets. Set in the heart of Bloomsbury, the club is a moody, seductive, space wit...
The Bloomsbury Club
For the cost of a (generally expensive) drink, you can join diners and guests at Scarfe’s Bar in the prestigious Rosewood Hotel close to Holborn Tube Station. With residencies and visiting artists, The Rosewood offers a high-quality musical experienc...
Scarfes Bar
Situated next to the Zedel Brasserie, Crazy Coqs near Piccadilly Circus is another descent into the underworld where you can find cabaret, jazz, and artists from the UK and abroad featured in a range of styles and music genres. Artsist have included ...
Crazy Coqs
A club that hosts huge stars and less well known, but still gets packed due to its atmosphere and location. A cross between a large local pub, a nigh club and a high end music venue, jazz Cafe has something for everyone.
Jazz Cafe
You can;t really discuss venues in London without including ronnie's. Somehow, this newly revamped venue still manages to retain some of its streetwise atmosphere, despite the cost of tickets and high calibre of artist who now play there. The food is...
Ronnie Scott's
A little walk from any tube station and set in a residential area, this restuarant/come/venue has a small stage and grewat acoustics.
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Jazz Live at The Crypt has been running since 1995 and takes place beneath St Giles Church on Camberwell’s Church Street. Each Friday evening you can hear the finest improvised music from musicians from the UK and abroad in one of the UK’s top small ...
Jazzlive at The Crypt
Nightjar, in Shorditch, is billed as the antidote to overcrowded bars and flashy nightclubs. The atmosphere is like a club in the 1920s, with candlelit tables, tin-cup cocktails, and live jazz from 9 p.m. Nightjar also has a West End outlet in Carnab...
Nightjar
Just up from The jazz Cafe, in Camden is a small venue called The Green Note. The venue is small, the stage tiny, but the music is superb. Drinks are served in a convivial atmosphere and you can hear anything from Bluegrass to traditonal jazz, or qui...
Green Note