The Jazz Café

Jazz Cafe

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Location	Camden Town, London
Owner	The Columbo Group
Type	Music venue
Genre(s)	Jazz Drum and bass Hip-hop Pop Soul music Funk Rhythm and blues
Opened	1992
Website
Official website

The Jazz Cafe is a music venue in Parkway in Camden Town, London, England. It opened in 1990 on the former premises of a Barclays Bank branch and has had several owners throughout its life as a music venue. The Jazz café was acquired by The Columbo Group in January 2016.

History

The original Jazz Cafe was founded by Jon Dabner and Jean Marshall in the 1980s in Newington Green, Stoke Newington, and moved to Camden Town in 1990. Mean Fiddler took over bookings from 4 September 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 early 2016. 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 420 patrons and a first-floor restaurant.

Performers

The Jazz Cafe has played host to such legendary jazz musicians as Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, Jimmy Smith, Abbey Lincoln, Ahmad Jamal, Archie Shepp, Eddie Harris, Cassandra Wilson, Abdullah Ibrahim, and many more to numerous to mention, plus of course top drawer soul and reggae artists like Kym Mazelle, Bettye Lavette, The JBs, Jean Carne, Ben E King, Edwin Starr, Baba Maal, Lee Scratch Perry, The Skatalites, Max Romeo, Luciano and Marcia Griffiths.

• De La Soul at the Jazz Cafe.jpg

  De La Soul at the Jazz Café

• Maceo Parker at the Jazz Café.jpg

  Maceo Parker at the Jazz Café

See also

• List of restaurants in London

External links

• Official website