Leeds Jazz Festival 2025 coming soon!

Music:Leeds have announced the dates for this year’s Leeds Jazz Festival between 22 and 27 May 2025. JazzLeeds will be presenting several concerts as part of this year’s Festival, at Seven Arts and at the Jazz Festival Welcome to Leeds stage in Cookridge Street..

Our headline acts include trumpeter Jay Phelps with his stunning interpretation of Miles Davis “Kind of Blue”, rising star pianist Sultan Stevenson, one of the most exciting young jazz musicians in the UK today and a jazz rarity – a contemporary jazz violinist Benet McClean who carries forward the spirit of Michael Urbaniak and Jean Luc Ponty.

All this and our famous Festival Jam Session on Sunday afternoon at Seven Arts bar, and our equallly famous May Bank Holiday Monday curation of the Jazz Festival tent – the Welcome to Leeds Jazz Tent in Cookridge Street next to the Light in Leeds city centre. And its’s free!

Our May Day Monday line up is

1pm Leeds University Big band
2pm Big Bamboo
3pm Alex Fisher Trio
4pm Los Traceperos
5pm Amon Ra
6pm Fee Buckton
7pm Oba Oba+ Catimba

Leeds Jazz Festival takes place at venues throughout the city from Thursday 22 through to Tuesday 27 May 2025. Details https://www.leedsjazzfestival.com/