Not a thing events are happy to announce the return of Alt-Jazz X Breaks, the high bpm danceable jazz/whatever night at Hyde Park Book Club – for a special one off night as part of Leeds Jazz Festival 25

This time there are  7 bands, playing 20 minute sets – with big tunes in between to keep you dancing as much as we can.

As always, a ridiculous mix up of noisy high speed jazz and adjacents.

DEFF60 – @deff60collective

Fake Scenario – @kende_sarlos2001

Glass Frogs – @glassfrogsband

Opening a weekend of Japanese listening culture, Club 15 and With Egg Records DJ’s are going back to back on the all vinyl Club 15 x Echelon Coffee Roasters audiophile Jazz Kissa System. 

Featuring custom built horn speakers, audiophile decks and a custom rotary mixer; expect to hear rare jazz, world and boogie that will get you grooving. 

With Egg will be selling records from their pop-up vinyl store, and food will be available from Galleria’s wood-fired kitchen.

Leeds' favourite genre-bending sextet to return to the Whistle for their ever popular 'Flat Friday'!

Calling the youngest Jazz lovers of Leeds! 

Join the PLAY tent at Leeds Art Gallery in this creative immersive workshop. Your young ones will be invited to express themselves creatively with paint whilst listening to the gentle sounds of 'Sketches of Spain' by Miles Davis. 

Linked to the forthcoming Lynette Yiadom- Boakye exhibition 'To improvise a mountain', the session will start in the gallery and continue in the Studio.  

Suitable for all under 5s the Early Years Atelier of Jazz will be relaxed, friendly and welcoming. 

Camilla George is a visionary saxophonist, composer, bandleader and innovator.

Her strong cultural roots and love of fusing African and Western Music has informed her own unique style, a key reason why she is a firm fixture on the new London Jazz scene, alongside peers such as Nubya Garcia and Shabaka Hutchings. Her music is a hypnotising blend of Afrofuturism, hip hop and jazz, with a politically minded subtext that has a powerful connection to her Nigerian identity, lineage and heritage, reflecting African history, culture and slavery.

Sultan Stevenson is one of the most exciting young jazz musicians in the UK today. He is a product of both the Julian Joseph Jazz Academy and Tomorrow’s Warriors, from a young age under the tuition of renowned jazz musicians such as Julian Joseph, Gary Crosby, Simon Purcell and Robert Mitchell.

All Aboard the S.S. Flamingo! MARIGOLD ADDAMS SAILS IN AS JANE McDONALD!

Anchors away, darlings — Flamingos is setting sail for the campest cruise this side of the Aire! Join us as the sensational Marigold Addams takes the helm, channelling the queen of the high seas herself — Jane McDonald.

Expect:
Power ballads with more drama than a storm at sea
Sequin overload (life jackets optional)
All your favourite Jane anthems — with a cheeky Flamingos twist

Jembaa Groove hail from Germany and are one of the top Afrofusion acts in Europe today. Co-led by Ghanaian singer and percussion legend Eric Owusu and German bass player and producer Yannick Nolting, the Berlin based outfit has established itself as a top international touring band over the past 3 years, releasing 2 albums ("Susuma" 2022, "Ye! Akansa" 2024), and a brace of singles on Agogo Records, all to great critical acclaim.

DJ Lubi continues his monthly Hyde Park Book Club residency with an Easter Sunday event co-promoted with Leeds hip-hop producer/MC ExP called "Absolutely Made Up". It's a completely improvised, on-the-spot, hip-hop live band jam featuring musicians from ExP's Jamettone collective plus DJ Hashfinger, and showcasing the freestyle talents of top UK MC Jack Flash. It does what it says on the tin.....a one-off, totally improvised set of music and bars that will not be duplicated ever again. Warming up with an MC and DJ session are highly rated Leeds hip-hop duo Oliver Rees and DJ Agent M.

Leeds' top Brazilian music promoter Lubi Jovanovic (DJ Lubi) brings some world class UK musicians to the Brudenell to play some beautiful Brazilian jazz and samba fusion with some special international guests.