Jazz Café

Antics

Soul, funk and rap, Hip hop, Clubs

• Critics' choice

From the people that bring you the enormous indie bash Buttoned Down Disco around the corner at Koko comes this more intimate night with a new music spin. DJ Antics cracks out the funk and hip hop to basstastic dubstep and breaks for a carefree Camden...

Candi Staton

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

Before achieving international fame as a disco diva with 'Young Hearts Run Free' and now-ubiquitous deep house anthem 'You Got the Love', Staton recorded a truckload of southern soul classics for Miami's Fame label – as anthologised by Honest Jon's and...

Eric Benét

Pop and rock, Urban music, R&B

MIlwaukee-reared singer Benét is a star of US R&B – drawing upon '60s soul, salsa and hip hop sources and here plugs his latest album 'Lost in Time'.

Finley Quaye

Categories, Jazz and experimental

After some legal trouble last year, the '90s reggae star (who picked up Mobo and Brit Awards in his day) and his lovely voice return to music. He released a new album last year called '28th February Rd' – a street in Ghana, home of Quaye's paternal a...

Freddie McGregor

World, Reggae, world and Latin, Ska

With a singing career stretching back to 1963 – when he was seven – McGregor is an enduring Jamaican vocalist. He had a minor UK hit in the late ’80s with 'Just Don't Want To Be Lonely', so that should be a guaranteed part of his setlist, but apart from...

Funmi Olawumi

World, Blues, roots and country, Folk

Olawumi, leader of the Yoruba Women's Choir, steps out for a solo show, albeit backed by a 12-piece band instead.

I Love The ’80s vs I Love The '90s

Pop and rock, Clubs

• Critics' choice

No guesses here! All the '80s and '90s pop, hair rock, disco, indie and cheese you could wish for. Don't forget to dress up.

Introducing recreate 'Discovery'

Dance, House, techno and electro, Electronica

• Critics' choice

Daft Punk fever is a very real and very serious condition. It’s been spreading since early January, when reports of a new album from the French house duo leaked from their lab. The viral spread of the news has already caused more internet disarray than...

Jean Grae

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

She's the daughter of legendary South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, is favoured in the underground scene and has toured with big names such as The Roots, Pharohe Monch and Talib Kweli. Tonight Grae promotes her debut album, 'Cake or Death'.

Lazy Habits

Categories, Jazz and experimental

• Critics' choice

Hip hop meets funk as festival-favourite eight-piece Lazy Habits prove they're full of energy and ideas. With inventive, Lester Bowie-ish horn parts adding colour to MC Lazy's streetwise rhymes on top of insistently funky grooves, this is live Brit-hop...

Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Categories, Pop and rock

One of the veterans of the British beat boom, Mann takes to the keys to lead his band, established in 1971. They're best remembered nowadays for a dreadful but massively successful version of Springsteen's 'Blinded by the Light', and for a proggy habit...

Matt Schofield Trio

World, Blues, roots and country, Folk

The highly regarded British guitarist assembles his trio for some jazz-tinged blues and funk.

Omar

Categories, Jazz and experimental

• Critics' choice

South London soul-jazz vocal legend Omar, the man behind the big hit 'There's Nothing Like This' in 1990, has since worked with Stevie Wonder, Ol' Dirty Bastard and a handful of other big names. He's back after a seven-year musical hiatus with a new album,...

Reel People

Categories, Jazz and experimental

• Critics' choice

The latest incarnation of the London nu-jazz, soul, broken beat and house collective is led by percussionist Oli 'Chilli Funk' Lazarus, and features a seriously heavyweight band. This includes singers Tony Momrelle, Imaani, Katie Leone and Jono McNeil,...