The Elgar Room, the Royal Albert Hall's highly accommodating 200-capacity concert space within the main concert hall building, has an exciting and diversely programmed weekly Late Night Jazz series with concerts happening every Thursday. The series showcases many emerging and established jazz names across a wide-spectrum of sounds including a rare live jazz-poetry night from revered British poet Michael Horovitz and his William Blake Klezmatrix Band plus a welcome appearance from Brit jazz-rock icons Soft Machine, with renowned guitarist John Etheridge (above), in late June.

All shows start at 9.45pm and include: The Tricity Vogue All Girl Swing Band (18 May) Benoit Viellefon Hot Club (25 May); Michael Horovitz and his William Blake Klezmatrix Band (8 June); Alex Hitchcock Quintet (15 June); Jumoké Fashola: Protest! – Divas, Words & Revolution (22 June) and Soft Machine (29 June).

– Mike Flynn
– Photo by Tim Dickeson

For more info visit: www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/series/late-night-jazz