The Jazz Café

The Jazz Café is a music venue in Camden Town, London. It opened in 1990 on the former premises of a branch of Barclays Bank and has had several owners throughout its history as a music venue.

The Jazz Café
LocationCamden Town
London, NW1
United Kingdom
Public transit Camden Town
OwnerThe Columbo Group
TypeMusic venue
Genre(s)Jazz
Electronica
Hip hop
Soul music
Funk
Folk
Opened1990 (1990) (current site)
Website
Official website

It was most recently acquired by The Columbo Group, in January 2016.

History

The original Jazz Café was founded by Jon Dabner and Jean Marshall in the 1980s in Newington Green, Stoke Newington,[1] and moved to Camden Town in 1990. Mean Fiddler took over bookings in 1992. In 2008 MAMA & Company acquired the Mean Fiddler Music Group and continued to operate the venue until it was purchased by The Columbo Group in January 2016.[2] Throughout its various owners the club has continued to showcase performers from the genres of neo-soul, hip hop, electronica, blues, world, reggae, Latin and soul, as well as providing a venue for new and established jazz artists.

It has a capacity for 450 patrons and has a first-floor restaurant.

Performers

The Jazz Café has played host to such jazz musicians as Sun Ra Arkestra, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, Jimmy Smith, Abbey Lincoln, Ahmad Jamal, Archie Shepp, Eddie Harris, Cassandra Wilson, Mulatu Astatke, and many more too numerous to mention. It has hosted top-drawer funk, soul and disco artists such as Amy Winehouse, Ben E King, Leroy Burgess, Evelyn "Champagne" King, The Blackbyrds, Jocelyn Brown, Jean Carne and The Fatback Band, plus reggae artists including Lee Scratch Perry, Yellowman, The Skatalites, Max Romeo, Luciano, Horace Andy, Johnny Osbourne and Marcia Griffiths. The venue also showcases music from across Africa and Latin America.

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See also

References
  1. "Searching for the perfect jazz venue...", Rhythm-a-Ning, 4 October 2009.
  2. Ben Norum, "Camden’s Jazz Cafe to relaunch with diverse lineup, improved sound quality and a new food offering", Evening Standard, 12 April 2016.

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