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The Top Brass award for the Soho Jazz Festival 40th under a spotlight, a brass trumpet mouthpiece resting on a black piano gloss resin disc
Soho Jazz Festival · 40th · Wed 16 – Sat 19 Sept 2026 · Soho, London

Are you one of
Soho's Top Brass?

The rooms change names. The rents go up. The brass fixtures remain. Forty of them, for our greatest supporters, one for each year since 1986.

34 left.
The object

1986 to 2026.

Brass from a Soho stage, set in resin. One for each year. Numbered.

Macro photograph of the Top Brass mouthpiece and its reflection in the piano gloss resin disc, Soho Jazz Festival 40th edition
From the stages of Soho · poured in Soho · each one unique
The Top Brass disc from above, the Soho Jazz Festival key plaque beside the brass mouthpiece in 95mm piano gloss resin
95mm · Piano gloss resin

Solid brass off a Soho stage, set face up in a 95mm disc of piano gloss resin. Poured in tens, so no two are quite alike.

We book next year's headliners

Just a handful of the trumpeters whose careers have benefited from playing at Soho Jazz Festival. A headline slot here puts an independent artist on the wider circuit, so your support keeps working long after September.

The Top Brass underside label reading Year Forty, celebrating forty years of the Soho Jazz Festival, 1986 to 2026, hand numbered out of forty, made in Soho
Stamped · 40 Years · 1986–2026

Numbered by hand on the underside, one for each year from 1986 to 2026, and thanked by hand while we are down there.

The wall

Forty names.
Behind the band.
Every night.

Goes up 16 September, placement drawn at random. Put your name, your company, your family, a friend or a musician down, and we will immortalise your support on the festival stage we wheel out each year, hopefully for decades to come.

34of 40 available

Soho plays on.
Thanks to you.

Price£400 inc VAT. Nothing more to pay. Run40. Poured in tens. Yours is in the next batch. InvoiceIf you need a VAT invoice, add company details at checkout. WallYour name goes up 16 September, for the run of the festival.
Other ways to support the festival See the 2025 impact report

More than £400? studios@soho.live

Top Brass and no pass?

Over 10 stages, four nights, 16–19 September. Four days for the price of two. £95.

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