JAZZ CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
JAZZ CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Jazz Concerts in Manchester
Sat 29 Mar - Sat 13 Sep 2025
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....
Opus Kink
Tuesday 28 January 2025
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...
Rory A. Green
Wednesday 29 January 2025
Rory A. Green is a jazz guitarist and composer based in the heart of Manchester, U.K. Focusing his work around infections rhythms, melodies and improvisation, he takes inspiration from musicians like Matthew Halsall, John Scofield and Stuar...
Shirley Tetteh
Thursday 30 January 2025
Described by Guitar World as "one of the UK's most exciting new jazz guitarists," Shirley Tetteh began her journey into jazz with Tomorrow's Warriors. In demand as a player, she currently features in Jazz Jamaica, Groundation, female collec...
Todd Terje
Friday 31 January 2025
Moovin-in presents TODD TERJE / MR SCRUFF / WERKHA (LIVE) / ANDREA TROUT. We are delighted to announce a "udderly" fantastic line up within the awe-inspiring surroundings of Manchester Cathedral. Norwegian music maestro Todd Terje is ready ...
La Fiesta
Friday 31 January 2025
A free-to-dance global music night featuring Afrobeat, Reggae, Latin, and Jazz with live band. Free entry, every Friday! ...
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...
Manchester Got Soul
Saturday 1 February - Saturday 31 May 2025
With live music + DJs across both floors of Blues Kitchen from 10pm - 3am, the house band take to the stage for three live sets. Expect to hear the hits of Aretha Franklin, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Wonder & The Rolling Stones. ...
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...
TWRP
Tuesday 4 February 2025
Old funk, modern electronic, and classic rock converge in a science fiction universe, as if Earth, Wind & Fire, Justice, and Casiopeia provided the soundtrack to an 80s cult classic film directed by John Carpenter. The sound of the future a...
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...
CubaVida - Havana Música: A Celebration of Cuban Music
Thursday 6 February 2025
Take a trip to Havana for one night only with the romantic rhythms, inspiring percussion and rich and colourful sounds of Cuba. Featuring the best salsa, rumba, Latin jazz and more, Jesus Batallan - the beating heart of Manchester's Cuban ...
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. ...
Ben Barnes
Monday 10 February 2025
English actor Ben Barnes is known to many for portraying fantasy heroes and comic-book villains, characters from history and classic novels and the occasional romantic street busker or wannabe rock-star. His own fantasies, stories and dream...
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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M&P's Big Band Brunch
Saturday 15 February 2025
18-piece Big Band DG Kollective play their superb jazzy twist on tv/film tunes and timeless popular music KIDS GO FREE *PLEASE READ FULL INFO*...
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...
Elephunk in the Room
Thursday 20 February - Thursday 1 May 2025
Showcasing some of the finest local bands, melding disco, funk and jazz together and ending the night with disco classics. Come dance with the Elephunk in the Room, a Rebel Riot Record event. ...
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...
