Royal Albert Hall's Late Night Jazz Returns with a Global Autumn Line-up
ORII Community - XAMBI. Image Credit: Hermela
The Royal Albert Hall continues to cement Late Night Jazz as one of London's most exciting homes for contemporary jazz, announcing a seven-show autumn programme that celebrates musical exchange across continents and cultures. Running from late September through October, the intimate Elgar Room will welcome artists from Sudan, Peru, Portugal, Korea and the UK, highlighting the increasingly international direction of London's thriving jazz landscape.
The series opens with Tamar Osborn, whose work explores improvisation, collaboration and music as a vehicle for healing. Best known for leading Collocutor, Osborn now steps forward under her own name with Varier: Berlin, beginning a new creative chapter centred on collective expression.
Amira Kheir brings her distinctive fusion of Nubian jazz, soul, desert blues and experimental music to the Hall as part of the Arab Women Artists Now (AWAN) festival. Her work continues to bridge heritage and contemporary expression, making her performance one of the season's cultural highlights.
Elsewhere, London-based pianist Leif Kaner-Lidström arrives following his work with the boundary-pushing Levitation Orchestra, while XAMBI blends neo-soul, funk, hip-hop and jazz into a sound drawing comparisons with The Internet, D'Angelo and The Isley Brothers.
Inês Loubet. Image courtesy The Royal Albert Hall
Portuguese singer-songwriter Inês Loubet offers a Relaxed Performance that combines Latin jazz, Tropicália and Brazilian influences in an accessible concert environment designed to reduce anxiety and create a more welcoming live experience.
Peruvian multi-instrumentalist Allexa Nava continues her impressive rise following appearances at Glastonbury, We Out Here and Wilderness festivals, while the series concludes with Kyungso Park and Swiss bassist Björn Meyer, whose collaboration explores the sonic possibilities of the Korean gayageum alongside contemporary six-string bass.
Allexa Nava. Image courtesy The Royal Albert Hall
Full Programme
Thursday 24 September — Tamar Osborn — 9:30pm
Saturday 26 September — Amira Kheir — 9:30pm
Thursday 1 October — Leif Kaner-Lidström — 9:30pm
Thursday 8 October — ORII Community: XAMBI — 9:30pm
Thursday 15 October — Inês Loubet (Relaxed Performance) — 9:30pm
Thursday 22 October — Allexa Nava — 9:30pm
Thursday 29 October — Kyungso Park & Björn Meyer: Resonating Spaces: A Sonic Dialogue Beyond Borders — 9:30pm
Kyungso Park and Björn Meyer. Image courtesy The Royal Albert Hall
With a programme that moves effortlessly between jazz traditions, contemporary improvisation and cross-cultural collaboration, this autumn's Late Night Jazz series reflects the evolving identity of London's jazz scene. Rather than presenting jazz as a fixed genre, the Royal Albert Hall continues to position it as an open conversation between cultures, generations and artistic disciplines. Making the Elgar Room one of London’s most compelling destinations for discovering the next wave of international talent.
Tickets for the autumn series of Late Night Jazz are available to buy now from the Royal Albert Hall website.
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