EFG London Jazz Festival 2025 comes to a close this Sunday 23 November, marking the festival’s final weekend of live jazz music in London. This weekend’s lineup features some of the most exciting names in jazz including Adrian Younge, Nubya Garcia and Ni Maxine and shows are set to jive inside some of London’s top live music venues like Barbican Hall and Southbank Centre. Dive into all the details of the EFG London Jazz Festival 2025 including upcoming free jazz shows below.
What is the EFG London Jazz Festival?
It’s a major jazz music festival that’s celebrating its 33rd anniversary in 2025. Over 10 days, over 2000 artists from around the world perform inside over 60 of London’s top music venues. This year’s lineup includes 350 shows that will celebrate jazz innovation as well as its legacy and roots.
EFG London Jazz Festival 2025: concert highlights (21-23 November)
Adrian Younge – Jazz Is Dead
A self-taught multi-instrumentalist and Emmy Award-winning composer, Adrian Younge brings his Jazz Is Dead show to Rough Trade East this November. He’s worked with artists like Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar and Wu Tang and helped produce albums like Roy Ayers and Lonnie Liston Smith.
📍Where? Rough Trade East
🗓️When? 21 November
Tune-Yards + LuxJury
Tune-Yards is the music project of California-based artists Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner. Their music is inspired by indie pop, Afrobeat and experimental loops. LuxJury, an indie pop-rock singer from London, will be opening their set.
📍Where? Southbank Centre
🗓️When? 22 November
Nubya Garcia + Jamz Supernova
London-born Nubya Garcia is a saxophonist and composer. Crowned Rolling Stone’s ‘Album of the Month, Garcia’s debut album Source was a hit with critics. Her most recent album Odyssey fuses orchestral arrangements with R&B, jazz and dub and is set to take centre stage at this concert. Radio host and DJ Jamz Supernova will be opening the show.
📍Where? Here at Outernet
🗓️When? 23 November
Ni Maxine
Neo-jazz star Ni Maxine is seriously one to watch. Her music blends conscious lyrics and storytelling with smooth contemporary jazz and the star is a hit with the critics. Maxine won ‘Breakthrough Act of The Year’ at The Jazz FM awards 2025 and was praised by Black Ballad as “a Black woman at the forefront of the UK scene”.
📍Where? The Jazz Social
🗓️When? 23 November
Free jazz shows in London this weekend
There are loads of family-friendly and free jazz shows at EFG London Jazz Festival this November, as well as workshops and Q&A panels. Here are some of the highlights:
European Jazz Freestage: Synesthetic 4tet & Lőrinc Barabás
Synesthetic4 are a musical quartet that blend hip hop and electronic sounds while following the jazz tradition of improvisation. Hungarian trumpeter Lőrinc Barabás will be joining them on stage to add his signature sound that fuses jazz, electronic and neoclassical music.
📍Where? Barbican
🗓️When? 22 November
RYAT: PULSE
Often compared to Björk, RYAT’s avant-garde electronic music has been described as “beat couture”. This show will feature music from her upcoming effort PULSE — an album that explores innovation and expression through music.
📍Where? Mason & Fifth
🗓️When? 22 November
Japanese Jazz
On the closing night of EFG London Jazz Festival 2025, the sounds of Japanese jazz are set to fill Barbican. Performers on the bill include singer, songwriter, and pianist Akiko Yano, tenor sax legend Kosuke Mine and saxophonist Miyuki Moriy.
📍Where? Barbican
🗓️When? 23 November
Baby Jazz Club
A series of family-friendly shows that runs throughout the festival where kids can go for free (adult tickets cost around £15). Baby Jazz Club features a session led by jazz singer Nishla Smith and pianist Matthew Bourne (15 November) as well as Graham Smyth’s electronic micro-rave for toddlers (23 November).
📍Where? The Jazz Social
🗓️When? Multiple dates
The Jazz Room in London
EFG London Jazz Festival comes to a close on 23 November, but London’s jazz scene plays on. If you’re craving more jazz vibes, The Jazz Room is a series of electrifying live music shows that journey through the golden eras of the genre, with performances of songs by Louis Armstrong, Irving Mills and more. Grab a drink, take your seat inside the iconic Phoenix Arts Club and let the best of jazz work it’s magic all over again.