JAZZ CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
JAZZ CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Jazz Concerts in Manchester
Sat 29 Mar - Sat 13 Sep 2025
Fri 31 Jan - Thu 5 Jun 2025
Emilio Santoro as Elvis
Saturday 15 February 2025
Internationally acclaimed, 20-year-old 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...
Nerina Pallot
Saturday 15 February 2025
Having been nominated for an Ivor Novello and Brit Award, Jersey-raised pop rock star Nerina Pallot has had an exciting music career, writing and performing her own pieces alongside working with artists like Kylie Minogue. She scored UK Top...
CHROMA
Saturday 15 February 2025
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Sammy Rae & the Friends
Sunday 16 February 2025
For as much as New York's Sammy Rae & The Friends may be a jazz rock band, this collective of dreamers, and artists considers itself a family first. Their sound is a melange of Connecticut-born Sammy's influences, rooted in classic rock, f...
Nai Barghouti
Sunday 16 February 2025
Award-winning singer, composer and flautist, Nai Barghouti is one of the most distinguished vocalists of a new generation of Palestinian and Arab artists. With a layered ornamental technique, in which she uses her voice as a musical instrum...
Jazz Emu
Monday 17 February 2025
For the first time ever musical supernova Jazz Emu (The Guardian's breakout comedy act of 2023 and The Telegraph's 26th Funniest Comedian of the 21st Century) will be touring his hotly anticipated brand-new show, Knight Fever, alongside hi...
Alison Moyet
Friday 21 February 2025
How time flies. It's been 40 years since Alison Moyet stepped out of Yazoo and fired up a solo career with her #1 debut album 'Alf' and Top 10 hits 'Love Resurrection' and 'All Cried Out'. That unmistakable voice - big enough to fill a stad...
Madeleine Peyroux
Friday 21 February 2025
Powered by the distinctive, honeyed croon that delivered her from the Paris streets to concert halls, acclaimed American jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux deftly interweaves jazz, folk, and chamber pop, with themes ranging from the confessiona...
Chuck Prophet
Friday 21 February 2025
For twelve long days, Chuck Prophet waited. A stage four lymphoma diagnosis had knocked the wind out of him, dragged him off the road and into surgery, and now here he was, a perpetual motion machine forced to sit still, confronting his mor...
berlioz
Saturday 22 February 2025
Enigmatic jazzy house producer berlioz, the UK's newest jazz sensation brings sun-soaked sax and swirling jazz beats to town. ...
berlioz
Saturday 22 February 2025
Enigmatic jazzy house producer berlioz, the UK's newest jazz sensation brings sun-soaked sax and swirling jazz beats to town. ...
Mr Wilson's Second Liners
Thursday 27 February 2025
New Orleans meets 90s club classics...a rave funeral without the body. In New Orleans, funerals are celebrated in style, with noisy brass bands processing through the streets. The main section of the parade is known as First Line, but the r...
Craig Charles Funk & Soul House Party + Odyssey
Saturday 1 March 2025
Craig Charles brings the legendary Funk & Soul House Party to Manchester Cathedral with special guest Odyssey. Craig Charles, famed for his long-running BBC Radio 6 Funk & Soul Show, will host the evening, bringing his renowned passion for ...
Alabaster dePlume
Monday 3 March - Saturday 3 May 2025
Mancunian jazz poet-performer Alabaster DePlume (a.k.a. Gus Fairbairn), who plays the saxophone out of the side of his mouth, is now known across the globe as the saxophonist who creates wonderful, wordless music, however back home he's mos...
Toro y Moi
Tuesday 4 March 2025
An unmistakably Toro y Moi experience, South Carolina chillwave musical mastermind Chaz Bear spans genre and sound, taking listeners on an auditory expedition, as if they're riding in the back of Bear's Filipino jeepney. Undoubtedly one of ...
Bill Laurance & Michael League (Snarky Puppy)
Tuesday 4 March 2025
Southern California-born bassist/multi-instrumentalist Michael League founded the globally acclaimed, four-time GRAMMY award-winning collective Snarky Puppy in. As for keyboardist Bill Laurance, originally from London, he has been a part of...
Soft Machine
Tuesday 4 March 2025
Soft Machine is one of the greatest UK avant/jazz-rock bands of all time. Their work, from their earliest performances as a psychedelic band, who were contemporaries of, and shared stages with Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd and the Jimi Hendrix E...
White Denim
Thursday 6 March 2025
Texan Southern rockers White Denim are one of the very best rock bands to emerge this millennium with a rootsy swing and uplifting way with melody. It's always been hard to keep pace with James Petralli's group, ever since they first expl...
NAO
Friday 7 March 2025
Critically acclaimed, Mercury Prize and Grammy-nominated Nottingham singer-songwriter Nao describes her music as "wonky funk", combining soul with electronic music, funk and R&B. ...
Laurence Jones
Friday 7 March 2025
Laurence Jones has developed a virtuoso pedigree as one the UK's hottest guitar players. With passionate riffs, soloing and catchy songs, his cross over sound inducted him into the British Blues Hall Of Fame, which lead him to support the l...
WILLE & THE BANDITS
Friday 7 March 2025
Cornwall's Wille and the Bandits have been praised by critics for being one of the most dynamic bands around the globe, as they move from riff-tastic rock and roll to more acoustic sensibilities that only few bands manage. The use of strin...
Jim Ghedi
Friday 7 March 2025
On his new album Wasteland, Jim Ghedi has created something huge. Intense, brooding, bold, at times apocalyptic, and remarkably vast. A profoundly bold sonic statement that is some of the most rich, far-reaching and ambitious work that Ghed...
The Pyramid Players - Stockport's Light Orchestra
Sunday 9 March 2025
A new 40-piece full orchestra dedicated to performing the best in tuneful light music from yesteryear. The programme will include - Calling All Workers ('Music While You Work'), Sailing By (Shipping Forecast theme), Puffin' Billy, Three Dan...
Sharon Van Etten
Tuesday 11 March 2025
New Jersey indie singer-songwriter and actress Sharon Van Etten has always been the kind of artist who helps people make sense of the world around them. With curling low vocals and brave intimacy, she creates a stunning meditation on how ...
Michael Kiwanuka
Thursday 13 March 2025
Michael Kiwanuka is a British singer-songwriter (indie rock/folk rock/soul) and record producer who is signed with Polydor Records. His 2012 debut album, Home Again, went gold in the United Kingdom and his second album, Love & Hate, debuted...
Beans on Toast
Thursday 13 March 2025
The foolhardy cult folk legend and accomplished songwriter offers some hope and light relief from this bizarre world in which we find ourselves, singing simple songs about complicated subjects. Joined by a brand new live band, Beans will be...
Martin Kohlstedt
Thursday 13 March 2025
Martin Kohlstedt is among the outstanding composers, pianists and producers for instrumental music and electronica. The German composer, movie soundtrack composer, pianist, and record producer has a contemporary approach of mixing classical...
Animals As Leaders
Friday 14 March 2025
When unknown virtuoso guitarist Tosin Abasi released his debut solo album under the moniker ANIMALS AS LEADERS in 2009, few would have predicted the now ground-breaking, critically-acclaimed, genre defying instrumental Washington D.C. trio'...
Nubiyan Twist
Saturday 15 March 2025
Woven around soul searching, cautionary tales and parables for modern life, the Leeds / London collective effortlessly fuse different soul, jazz and global styles with great musicianship and lyrics. You can hear touches of broken beat, blun...
Elkie Brooks
Sunday 16 March 2025
Having started her career in music in 1960, a remarkable 64 years of performing live, Salford blues legend Elkie Brooks will embark upon her Long Farewell Tour. A celebration of Elkie's illustrious award winning career in music performing s...
Mr Scruff + MC Kwasi - Keep It Unreal
Sunday 16 March 2025
The Manchester tag-team of funkiness, Mr Scruff and MC Kwasi are back with their cross-format, cross-genre journey through every kind of dance music known. A true national treasure, Manchester-based Mr. Scruff is a producer, cartoonist and...
Clairo
Wednesday 19 - Thursday 20 March 2025
Claire Elizabeth Cottrill, known professionally as Clairo, is an American lo-fi folk pop singer-songwriter. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Carlisle, Massachusetts, she began posting music on the internet at age 13, rising to pro...
The Picturebooks
Wednesday 19 March 2025
German energetic rock duo Fynn Claus Grabke and Philipp Mirtschink deliver Uptempo songs alongside their trademark midtempo burners. Their genuine sound includes instruments such as piano and tubular bells. They even handcraft some of their...
Danny & the Champions of the World
Wednesday 19 March 2025
You Are Not A Stranger Here, the long-awaited new album by Danny & the Champions of the World, will be released through Loose Music on 18 October. Their seventh studio release and first since 2017?s Brilliant Light, You Are Not A Stranger H...
MEUTE
Thursday 20 March 2025
The impetuous passion of a freaked out marching band finds its new order in the intricacy of electronic music production. Coming from Hamburg's Schulterblatt street the self-styled techno marching band MEUTE have been catapulted to the top ...
Hot 8 Brass Band
Thursday 20 March 2025
New Orleans' Grammy-nominated Hot 8 Brass Band return to honour their late co-founder and sousaphone player Bennie Pete. As much a hip hop act as a brass one, many styles and musical inspirations of Hot 8 shine though as they tell their ...
The Greatest Star - Barbra Streisand Tribute Show
Thursday 20 March 2025
Starring Kearra Bethany, as seen on ITV's Starstruck, The Greatest Star takes you on a magical musical journey through time as you sit back and relax enjoy the sounds of this fabulous concert style production. Barbra Streisand is, by far, o...
The Temperance Movement
Thursday 20 March 2025
The Temperance Movement are one of Britain's finest blues rock bands, bearing echoes of the great rock 'n' roll icons of the '60s and '70s like The Faces and Led Zeppelin, Free and The Rolling Stones. Formed in London but with a Glaswegian...
Miracle of Sound
Friday 21 March 2025
Cork indie musician Gavin Dunne, better known by the name of his music project "Miracle of Sound", performs music inspired by video games, films, and TV shows. While not widely known in his home country of Ireland, his music is very popular...
Harriet
Friday 21 March 2025
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,...
The John Martyn Project
Friday 21 March 2025
A special project where six artists come together to celebrate the music of John Martyn. Each brings their own story and connection to John's music which adds to the fabric of the overall experience of the project and take you on a musical ...
The Horne Section
Wednesday 26 March 2025
They have two series of their own Channel 4 TV show, an iTunes-chart-topping podcast and now they're tuning up their instruments once more to tour the country: it's the Horne Section's Hit Show! "Britain's Funniest Band" (The Guardian) have...
