JAZZ & BLUES IN MANCHESTER
JAZZ & BLUES IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Jazz & Blues in Manchester
Sat 23 Nov 2024 - Sat 13 Sep 2025
Fri 31 Jan - Thu 5 Jun 2025
Rick Astley
Friday 20 December 2024
Rick Astley has proven to be a consistently huge draw in the live arena. The Newton-le-Willows pop star's shows are a celebration, mixing the famous hits that he made his name with, in the 1980s, alongside current fan favourites. Rick's wid...
Brutus Gold's Love Train
Friday 20 December 2024
Lock up your daughters.... your mothers.... your self-tan spray and your cheap cologne! Brutus Gold and his Love Train are steaming into town for a night thick and heavy with 70s grooves. Self-proclaimed Puerto Rican Love God, Brutus Gold ...
Jools Holland
Saturday 21 December 2024
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...
Ben Ottewell (Gomez)
Friday 27 December 2024
As a singer and lead guitarist in rock band Gomez, Ben Ottewell is well known for his unmistakable voice and talent for blistering and inspired guitar solos. Rolling Stone declared, "Gomez's not-so-secret weapon is Ben Ottewell." And as GQ ...
The Glenn Miller Orchestra
Saturday 28 December 2024
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,...
The Chicago Blues Brothers
Friday 10 January 2025
The world's biggest and best loved Blues Brothers party show is on a mission once again. As seen at the Adelphi Theatre and the Savoy Theatre in London's West End, The Chicago Blues Brothers have put the band back together to bring you t...
Very Santana - The Ultimate Celebration of Carlos Santana
Saturday 11 January 2025
Sit back, relax, and enjoy the most beautiful guitar melodies and the amazingly creative, unique, diverse, and very challenging songs of Carlos Santana. All of which are played skilfully by this band of top-quality and musically highly ed...
German National Youth Orchestra & Wayne Marshall
Friday 17 January 2025
Germany's brightest young orchestra, Bundesjugendorchesters, joins the Mancunian conductor, pianist and all-round phenomenon Wayne Marshall in in the work that invented American classical music: George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. From th...
Peter Moore Trio
Wednesday 22 January 2025
Trombonist Peter Moore is joined by mezzo-soprano Anna Huntley and pianist Michael McHale to perform their own arrangement of music by Schumann, Schubert and more, followed by a set of lighter works by Novello, Kurt Weil, and Manning Sherwi...
October London
Saturday 25 January 2025
Indiana native (born Jared Samuel Erskine) is foremost a soul-rooted artist whose smooth, heartfelt vocals recall giants of the past - especially Marvin Gaye - October London is a versatile artist who also raps and is equally comfortable w...
Nearly Dan - The Spirit & Sound Of Steely Dan
Saturday 25 January 2025
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...
Josh Rouse
Saturday 25 January 2025
Known for his introspective folk-pop and worldly perspective, Josh Rouse has built a reputation as a critically acclaimed and perennially reliable singer/songwriter. Born in Nebraska, moved to various cities throughout his childhood and ...
Secret Affair
Saturday 25 January 2025
Secret Affair formed in 1978 and released their seminal debut album "Glory Boys" the following year. The debut single "Time For Action" reached #13 in the UK chart, putting them at the forefront of the 'Mod Revival' movement. In 1980, the f...
Lake Street Dive
Tuesday 28 January 2025
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. F...
The Magic of Motown
Friday 31 January 2025
Get ready for all the hits, glittering costumes, dazzling dance routines and outstanding musicianship in this breath-taking live concert spectacular. You will be going Loco down in Acapulco as we take you back down memory lane with all the ...
Floating Points
Saturday 1 February 2025
The son of a Manchester vicar, classically trained Mancunian electronic musician, composer and neuroscientist, Sam Shepherd was a chorister at Manchester Cathedral before going on to study piano at Chetham's School of Music. His 2021 album...
Lady Blackbird
Tuesday 4 February 2025
Named after one of Nina Simone's starkest tunes, Los Angeles-based singer Marley Munroe isn't the Nina Simone of the Black Lives Matter era (she certainly wouldn't call herself that). But she is the talent, and the force-of-nature, and the...
The Story of Guitar Heroes
Thursday 6 February 2025
The Story of Guitar Heroes is an awe-inspiring, dynamic show which transports you through time: from the 1950's with artistes such as Chuck Berry and Hank Marvin from The Shadows, including gifted legends such as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Cl...
Louie Vega & The Elements of Life
Saturday 8 February 2025
New York Puerto Rican DJ Louie Vega is one half of the Masters at Work musical production team. With his Elements of Life band he produces a live show of jazz, soul, house and so much more. ...
Jazz Sabbath
Wednesday 12 February 2025
Created by Adam Wakeman, touring keyboard and guitar player for Black Sabbath (2004-2017) and Ozzy Osbourne band member (2004-present), Jazz Sabbath is a fictional English jazz trio said to be from the late sixties. The band plays jazz rend...
Oh My God It's The Church
Thursday 13 February 2025
The Lord may work in mysterious ways, but there is nothing mysterious about the rise of the phenomenon that is - Oh My God! It's The Church. Original, outrageous, irreverent, and endlessly entertaining, OMGITC have had a monumental few ye...
Cory Wong
Saturday 15 February 2025
The Grammy nominated Minneapolis funk-rock guitarist offers a mixture of finesse, funk and unstoppable passion. All music fans, not just jazz and funk fans, can have a slice of their listening habits on instrumental music, because it really...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
