Jamie Cullum Opens Blue Note London With Eight Sell-Outs

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Jamie Cullum Opens Blue Note London With Eight Sell-Outs

30.09.2026 30 September 2026
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Jamie Cullum Opens Blue Note London With Eight Sell-Outs

Jamie Cullum Gives London’s New Jazz Room an Early Winning Streak

London’s live music calendar has gained a polished new address, and Jamie Cullum is already testing its potential. The British singer and pianist began a run of eight sold-out performances at Blue Note London, the newly opened Covent Garden outpost of the New York jazz institution.

The club’s main room holds about 250 guests, putting the audience close enough to catch every change in tempo and every improvised turn. Its raised stage, carefully balanced sound and low-lit interior favour concentration over arena spectacle. A second, smaller room is expected to follow later this year, with space for emerging British performers.

Cullum arrived with an 11-piece band and a programme that moved between familiar material and seven new compositions. He revisited songs including Twentysomething and These Are the Days, while a solo performance of In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning supplied the evening’s quietest moment. Welcoming the venue and its freshly assembled team, he joked about its “new car kinda smell.”

His residency follows the club’s September 23 opening, led by American pianist and producer Robert Glasper. The sequence gives the launch a useful contrast: Glasper represents jazz’s dialogue with hip-hop and R&B, while Cullum brings a broad British audience and an instinct for theatrical performance.

The early ticket demand matters beyond one successful booking. London has a deep jazz tradition, but artists and audiences continue to face pressure from venue closures and rising operating costs. A new intimate stage entering the market with multiple sell-outs suggests that listeners still value music experienced at close range.

Blue Note London is not trying to reproduce a concert hall. Its appeal rests on the opposite idea: major performers, a compact room and the possibility that a familiar song may take an unexpected direction. Cullum’s opening run has given that promise an energetic first demonstration. The first response indicates that the format has room to grow.

CULLUM Jamie

English jazz-pop singer
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GLASPER Robert

American pianist
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