JAZZ CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
JAZZ CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Jazz Concerts in Manchester
Fri 30 Oct 2026 - Thu 4 Mar 2027
Sun 11 Oct 2026 - Sat 24 Apr 2027
Ruby Turner
Friday 16 October 2026
Ruby Turner was born in Jamaica and grew up in Montego Bay. Her Grandfather sang the lead in one of the Island's Gospel Groups. Moving to England when she was 9, Ruby has lived here ever since. Her career to date has always had many unexpec...
Mercury Rev
Friday 16 October 2026
Purveyors of a cosmic brand of the popular American songbook Buffalo New York act Mercury Rev merge jazz, folk, sweeping orchestration, and a dose of 60's rock. Their 1998 album Deserter's Songs remains one of the essential records of the p...
Mica Paris
Friday 16 October 2026
Mica Paris, M.B.E. is the queen of British Soul and one of Britain's most versatile and beloved entertainers: a major label recording artist; West End theatre & television actress; best-selling author and BBC broadcaster, all of which have ...
Fat Freddy's Drop
Saturday 17 October 2026
Fat Freddy's Drop is a New Zealand seven-piece band from Wellington, whose musical style has been characterised as any combination of dub, reggae, soul, jazz, rhythm and blues, and techno. Originally a jam band formed in the late 1990s by m...
Harriet
Sunday 18 October 2026
Sheffield singer Harriet Robert's sell-out show, Trying To Get The Feeling Again, sees her performing intimate interpretations of her favourite sounds of the 70s, including hits by The Carpenters, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Carole King,...
Huey Morgan - The Fun Lovin' Criminal
Sunday 18 October 2026
The King of New York, Huey Morgan - the original Fun Lovin Criminal - is back playing with his brand new band!All the hit's that you love, are going to be played including - The Fun Lovin Criminal, Scooby Snacks, Loco, Korean Bodega, Love U...
Rosie Frater-Taylor
Wednesday 21 October 2026
A compelling live performer and one of the most electrifying forces in contemporary crossover music, Rosie Frater-Taylor is a virtuoso guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter of remarkable emotional depth. Equal parts dedicated student of jazz ...
MT JONES
Friday 23 October 2026
Gathering inspiration from 60s and 70s soul greats across the Atlantic to modern R&B and Jazz, Liverpool's MT Jones evokes a sound that is both contemporary and timeless. His crooning vocals transport you straight back to a smoke-filled s...
Lake Street Dive
Saturday 24 October 2026
Since forming in 2004, Lake Street Dive have matched their sophisticated musicianship with a fearless refusal to limit their sound, creating joyously soulful rock & roll with equal parts ingenuity, intelligence, and irresistible abandon....
A Certain Ratio
Saturday 24 - Sunday 25 October 2026
Mancunian Post-Punk legends ACR's greatest strength has always been their unpredictability. They've always moved with gleeful disregard for the boundaries of style and genre, their eye fixed firmly on constant progression. It's an ethos tha...
Scott Brothers Duo
Monday 26 October 2026
Mancunian brothers Jonathan & Tom Scott perform an unmissable programme of duos for piano and organ, demonstrating the full range of sounds and colours available from this brilliant combination. Their programme includes original works for p...
The Amy Winehouse Band
Friday 30 October 2026
In this stunning retrospective show, Amy's original band fronted by the exceptional young vocalist Bronte Shand, celebrate her era defining music and live performances. This is the only completely authentic re-imagining of the Amy Wineh...
Dutty Moonshine Big Band
Friday 30 October 2026
A force of musical nature, Bristol's 12 piece live electroswing dance music outfit Dutty Moonshine Big Band have created an ensemble body of work ranging from relentless heavy Grime to Latin House to Jazz.... that might sound like it shou...
Baked a La Ska
Friday 30 October 2026
Baked A La Ska are the heavy heavy sound of Manchester ska; an 11piece band of assembled oddballs and pranksters fronted by an unholytrio of singers and featuring one of the tightest rhythm sections inManchester with the "chops to make ...
Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club
Saturday 31 October 2026
Funkster about town, BBC 6 Music's DJ Craig Charles is back with his funk and soul club, exploring the best in funk and soul from the roots of black music through to the current club sounds, featuring classic tracks, and new releases. Th...
Cat Power
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Charlyn Marie "Chan" Marshall, better known as Cat Power, pursues the slinky Hi Records sound of the '70s - folk singers, blues singers, and everything in between -with a sensuous feel and beguiling rhythms such as Memphis horns, funky stri...
Emilio Santoro As Elvis
Thursday 5 November 2026
Internationally acclaimed youngster Emilio Santoro brings his award-winning Elvis Presley theatre show to the UK. Emilio has won both European and World Championships as Elvis in the past year, and wowed America's Got Talent viewers with...
Wasia Project
Friday 6 November 2026
Croydon siblings Will Gao and Olivia Hardy encorporate a diverse mix of genres including Jazz, Pop, and Classical inspired by their mixed British-East Asian heritage and training. Will is perhaps best known for his debut role as Tao Xu ...
Pygmy Twylyte - The Music of Frank Zappa
Friday 6 November 2026
Navigating the vast Zappa oeuvre then is no mean feat, but Scotland's Pygmy Twylyte have embraced the challenge with gusto. So prolific was Frank Zappa's output, that it is nearly impossible to present a representative sample of his work in...
The Mouse Outfit
Friday 6 November 2026
Celebrated Manchester collective The Mouse Outfit are a nationally prominent household name in Hip Hop, collaborating with a Who's Who of the Mancunian rap and urban soul scene. Since the heady days of debut record Escape Music, through th...
Joan As Police Woman
Saturday 7 November 2026
Described by The Guardian as having "a voice so wondrous and moving that it makes everyone else's seem ordinary and mundane", highly acclaimed Connecticut songwriter Joan Wasser returns to Europe performing key songs from throughout her ca...
The Allergies
Saturday 7 November 2026
Dynamite funk / hip hop crew, The Allergies bring high-energy grooves to town. Spinning bangers is DJs Rackabeat and Moneyshot, and joining them on stage is soul diva Marietta Smith, LA rap icon Andy Cooper (Ugly Duckling), and UK sax star ...
Pete Roth Trio Featuring Bill Bruford
Sunday 8 November 2026
The Pete Roth Trio features leader Pete on guitar, Mike Pratt on bass, and the incomparable former Yes and King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford. The band creates jazz for a new generation of music enthusiasts, exploring beyond traditional jazz...
Shabaka
Monday 9 November 2026
Former Sons of Kemet star Shabaka Hutchings is a pioneering voice in the renaissance of British Jazz. Transcending conventional genres and drawing on a vast pallet of cultural influences the Brimingham-raised musician, composer and bandlea...
Joshua Idehen
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Joshua Idehen is a British-born Nigerian based in Sweden. A spoken word artist and musician, he has contributed poems to Mercury-nominated albums 'Channel The Spirits' by The Comet Is Coming, 'Your Queen Is A Reptile' and the Mobo winning ...
The Sheepdogs
Saturday 14 November 2026
Built on the solid, classic rock foundation of three-part harmonies and dual guitar leads, Canada's the Sheepdogs blend Southern boogie rock, groove-based psychedelia, and bluesy barroom swagger into a modern rock & roll revival. Based out ...
Zoh Amba
Saturday 14 November 2026
In April, Zoh Amba announced their Matador debut album Eyes Full, out June 5th, an album of tough and soulful songs that feel like a pure transmission from the heart. Today, Amba shares the album?s pensive and darkly hypnotic title track, a...
Caravan Palace
Sunday 15 November 2026
The Platinum-selling group which would define a new sound called "Electro Swing", French gypsy jazz band Caravan Palace incorporate sounds including early swing jazz and big band to create a rip-roaring party, bursting with fun and good hum...
Joyce Moreno
Monday 16 November 2026
Born in Rio de Janeiro, four-times Grammy nominee, singer, composer, arranger, and instrumentalist Joyce Moreno has in her portfolio over 400 recordings of songs she has authored, interpreted by the greatest names in Brazilian popular music...
Tropical Fuck Storm
Tuesday 17 - Friday 27 November 2026
It?s been two years since our favourite Australian post-apocalyptic acid punk disco scuzzheads, Tropical Fuck Storm, toured Europe. And while we can?t blame EVERYTHING terrible that?s happened since then on their absence, it does make you t...
Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet)
Friday 20 November 2026
Co-founder and frontman of '80s New Romantic legends Spandau Ballet, Tony Hadley has announced a brand new UK tour for 2025, which will be a spectacular celebration of swing and crooner classics, as well as his own hits reimagined. The C...
Opus Kink
Saturday 21 November 2026
Described by the NME as "Horn-fuelled filth-funk, where punk and jazz combine in grimy circumstances", "Barnstorming, infectious" by BBC 6 Music's Steve Lamacq, and "One of the most enjoyable genre fusions I've ever seen" by Nels Hylton on...
UK Fleetwood Mac
Saturday 21 November 2026
UK Fleetwood Mac successfully recreates the authentic look and sound and every show is portrayed with the passion, energy and respect that the legendary band deserve. Enjoy favourites including Don't Stop, Dreams, The Chain, You Make Loving...
Christmas in Ireland
Tuesday 24 November 2026
This Christmas, experience the heart, humour and spirit of Ireland, with Christmas in Ireland. Be transported to a magical Christmas Eve inside a traditional Irish pub, where friends, old and new, gather to share songs, stories and memories...
Lambchop
Tuesday 24 November 2026
Kurt Wagner's Nashville alt country rockers have moved through a range of genres including low-fi bedroom recordings, post-rock, soul, classical and lounge music since their formation in 1986. ...
High Fade
Friday 27 November 2026
Discover the electrifying, intoxicating High Fade: the most exciting thing to happen to funk since the '70s. Get your funk on. ...
Dan Patlansky
Friday 27 November 2026
Dan Patlansky is a South African blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. Blues & Soul magazine selected him as their Male Artist of the Year in December 2015 and Total Guitar magazine selected him as the number 4 of 10 Best Rock Guitarists ...
Madame Claude
Saturday 28 November 2026
The most exciting and original ska band in years! Not our words... the words of Pauline Black, the legendary front woman of the Selecter. Meet Madame Claude, a 5 piece band from Saddleworth, mixing ska, rocksteady, reggae and even disco t...
The Down For The Count Swing Orchestra - Swing into Christmas
Saturday 5 December 2026
Kick off the festive season in style with the sensational Down for the Count Swing Orchestra, as they return for their much-loved annual show, Swing Into Christmas! This is a Christmas celebration like no other - the unique 30-piece big ...
Nearly Dan - The Spirit & Sound of Steely Dan
Saturday 5 December 2026
Less tribute and more homage, Nearly Dan is saviour to the growing legions of Dan fans, desperate to hear the meticulously crafted grooves and allusive lyrical style of Donald Fagen & Walter Becker. Nearly Dan's approach is faithful, thou...
Colosseum
Wednesday 9 December 2026
One of the most influential of the early British progressive rock bands, Colosseum fuse an adventurous approach to rock with strong jazz and blues influences and classical keyboard accents which brought them success in the late 1960s and ea...
Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Thursday 17 December 2026
Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra are a rhythm and blues band led by boogie-woogie pianist Jools Holland. Holland formed the band in 1994 and the current 20-piece band consists of piano, organ, drums, female vocals, electri...
The Glenn Miller Orchestra
Monday 28 December 2026
The sensational Glenn Miller Orchestra swings you back in time playing Glenn Miller's own arrangements of favourite wartime chart toppers and hits from the forties directed by legendary band leader Ray McVay. Featuring: Pennsylvania 6-5000,...
