Blue Note London

London’s jazz scene has gone from strength to strength in recent years, and 2026 looks no different, thanks to the arrival of a major new late night venue in the city centre. Founded in NYC’s Greenwich Village in the 1980s, the iconic jazz club Blue Note is arriving in Covent Garden in spring of this year, taking over the basement venue beneath St Martins Lane hotel. The new outpost follows recent openings in Tokyo, Milan and Rio de Janeiro, the subterranean club will feature two performance spaces – a 250-capacity main room and a 100-capacity secondary room – and will boast a full-service kitchen open for dinner throughout the week, and a 1am late license on weekends. 

The OG venue in Manhattan bills itself as the ‘jazz capital of the world’, with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles and Chick Corea all gracing its hallowed stage over the years, so if its London expansion attracts half as many legendary names, London jazzophiles are in for a real treat.