What we’re about
LJM - London Jazz Meetup - is for jazz lovers, musicians and artists, jazz venues and promoters to share their love of jazz and live music in all its varied forms: from swing to be-bop, acid jazz to and all forms of contemporary jazz fusion.
The aim of LJM is two-fold. To provide an open forum for jazz lovers to meet and enjoy music together in a range of venues across the city. LJM also wants to play a part in supporting jazz artists in London.
As a member of LJM, you find out about the wide range of jazz on offer in London, from young bands starting their career to iconic jazz musicians passing through town, including a well of London based artists dedicated to playing great music. You start going to amazing gigs with likeminded people.
If you are a jazz musician, artist, promoter or venue, you are welcome to list your gigs on the LJM calendar.
Listing gigs on LJM is free, it gives your event great visibility to a large group of jazz lovers. In return we ask that you arrange for a clearly signposted reserved space for LJM members who attend your gig. This is to ensure that LJM members can gather and socialise together. Please ask me for more details about how to list and host your event on LJM.
So introduce yourself and share why you joined. And if you see a gig that you’d like to go to and it is not on the calendar, you can post a message on LJM to see who’s interested in going. If there are a few, you can become an event host for the night.
By becoming a member you confirm that you have read, understood and agree with LJM group rules below.
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LJM GROUP RULES
LJM is an inclusive group, we expect our members to feel safe when they attend LJM events. Please be respectful and considerate of all LJM members.
LJM is a not-for-profit group. However, we ask for a one-off £5 contribution when you become a member, payable through PayPal to [email protected]. Membership is free thereafter. This covers the Meetup annual subscription.
How to join an event?
Signing up to an event is entirely free of charge for LJM members.
As an LJM member, it is your responsibility to purchase your own ticket for the performance, your own travel and pub expenses.
Please be considerate and respectful of event hosts. They volunteer their time and energy to organise events and make everyone feel welcome. Please make it your responsibility too.
Although we provide detailed information, if you have any questions, please post them on the event chat.
It is your responsibility to find and arrive at the meeting place on time if you want to enjoy the gig with other LJM members.
If you are late, please notify the event host. However it is up to the event host how long the group can wait for you.
Please only RSVP that you are attending an event, once you have bought a ticket for the performance.
Please amend your RSVP to “not attending” if for any last minute reason you are unable to attend the event. It is important for the event host to have an accurate number of people attending the event, so they don’t have to wait unnecessarily.
Please have a face shot of yourself on your profile. Failure to do so may lead to removal from LJM.
Please contribute in any way you can, by sharing your ideas or making suggestions. Why not even organise an event once in a while? You have a choice to become a one-off or a regular 'event host'.
DISCLAIMER
LJM events are free and community-driven.
LJM members are a group of friends, not a business.
LJM calendar offers different types of activities. Any LJM member may organize an event and you can too!
LJM is not organized by a business nor any entity with commercial purposes. Any event details, instructions and other content in our group merely represent our shared personal knowledge, research and suggestions to enable members to get together and have a great time. As this is no business, there is no "product", "service" or "event leader". Each LJM member is expected to arrange their own travel to and from the gig venue. Each LJM member is responsible for their own safety and attendance, for meeting the group at the meeting location specified by the event host and at the time specified. Even hosts will not assume responsibility for anyone arriving late, getting lost, any kind of injury, damage or loss that may happen.
Upcoming events (4)
See all- Phoenician Blinds @ Map Cafe, Kentish TownMap Studio Cafe , London
I did a meetup to see this band in September in Richmond. I enjoyed their music so much, I'm going to see them again at a different venue. Feel free to sign up and join me.
The band is a great drums, bass, sax and keyboards combination which reminded me of my favourite-ever jazz fusion band - the UK's Roadside Picnic (which started the career of Dave O'Higgins) from the 1990s - with their polished sound and complex arrangements, and perhaps a little of Weather Report in places, some Soft Machine perhaps.
This video gives a taste of what they sound like.
Phoenician Blinds are playing at Map Cafe, where I've done Meetups before, but haven't been to since before the great lockdown of 2020. The music will be upstairs if I recall correctly, and it's quite a cosy venue.
Tickets are only £12 - available here. Usual requests apply - please only sign up if you have a ticket. I'll bring along a Meetup sign so if other members join me it should be easy enough to meet up; if not, my mobile is 07740 038913.
Hope to see a few members there.
- Lydian Collective @ Off The Rails (venue reopening)One Kew Road, Richmond
The great Off The Rails venue in Richmond is reopening after a refurbishment, but the live music's continuing there, and to mark this, the venue's hosting the great Lydian Collective - whom I've seen with the Meetup maybe two or three times.
Always a great show of consummate musicianship from the four-piece, a fusion of jazz, funk, and electronica, it's super-catchy and great fun - super-accessible and memorable melodies, and really interesting rhythms. They've released two albums, both of which I've enjoyed immensely.
Tickets are £16, and can be booked here. Please only RSVP if you intend to come.
Off The Rails is a small-medium sized upstairs venue; generally pays to get there early; I'll aim to have a Meetup table sign so members can find each other. Look forward to seeing some old Meetup friends and maybe some new ones too. It's right opposite the train station, so easy to get to.
