Jazz Festival '26
Ten Years Reimagined.
Forty Years in the Making.
Limited capacity · Advance ticket required
Three prizes. One night. British jazz finally says thank you. Winners announced live on stage at Alfie's Soho. 18 September 2026.
The jazz artist who gave more than they took. Not the name at the top of the bill, but the player who shared the stage, ran the jams, and spent their career pulling the next generation up behind them.
Award includes a cash prize and an industry support package. Details announced at the ceremony.
The promoter, venue owner, or programmer who kept British jazz alive at grassroots level, often at personal cost, when the industry was looking the other way.
Award includes a cash prize and an industry support package. Details announced at the ceremony.
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The person behind the scenes whose tireless, under-recognised work made careers possible. Photographer, engineer, writer, fixer, believer. The one artists quietly credit when no one is listening.
Award includes a cash prize and an industry support package. Details announced at the ceremony.
The Soho Jazz Festival has grown year on year, with each September bringing more energy, more discovery, and more of Soho's hidden corners thrown open to music. 2026 will be a landmark — ten years since the festival was reimagined by Soho Live Studios, and forty since it first began.
Every September, Soho comes alive with music in its most unexpected corners — a basement club here, a members' lounge there, a hidden room you've walked past a hundred times. That's the joy of the Soho Jazz Festival. It's not about scale, it's about closeness. Year on year, the buzz has grown, but the heartbeat has stayed the same: artists at the centre, audiences up close, and discovery in every room.
Priority access, early bird pricing and first look at the full lineup.