Jazz After Dark - London

Recommended for all jazz lovers. very cozy, and the staff is friendly. Eating is not bad at all. I enjoyed a music live show, with a good drink and delicious bite.

One of the best little late night crayons in soho, jazz after dark gets an eclectic and fascinating mix of musicians who perform every night on his tiny stage. from night to night can one be entertained by a German choreia conjuring a ukelele (manuela)? she went back to düsseldorf, I think) or a blues band, jazz ensemble or crooner. amy winehouse has been here quite regularly in a very off the manschette art of away, before her immaculate past, and owner sam has plastered the walls with his paintings from her. he will govern them with layers over the legendary and show them the small VIP area to the side of the stage where they would drink if they asked him nicely. to different times it was...more

Very bad place. She is very rude person and my child lost desire to learn violin class. Miss Irina was even hurting my child hand. Never ever go to this place.

Saturday night 6pm Soho was heaving! Tried Bar Termini no chance! getting thirsty! Daughter and I nearly walked past Jazz after Dark which would have been a considerable shame. Saw it had a couple of empty seats and managed to get a small table. Cocktails ordered also nice to see a selection of Old School Soho glitterati amongst the usual Saturday nighters. reminiscent of Soho in the 60 's. Apparently frequented by Amy Winehouse. The owner is also an artist and his pictures are exhibited on the walls as well as Amy memorabilia. At about 7pm the bloke sitting behind us got up went to the small stage and started singing the most eclectic range of songs I 've ever heard. His stamina was amazing and we congratulated ourselves on finding this place. Later found out he was called Memphis ! My husband is 80 next year we want Memphis for his birthday party! (husband is a young 79 and likes his music). Wish we had stayed for food as the couple next to us were served chips to die for (luminous and welcoming). Do yourself a favour and check it out, has something for everyone. Menu is a bit limited but chips? what 's not to like!

We reserved four seats at Jazz After Dark recommend by their website . When we arrived, it took several minutes to find our reservation no problem, it happens. But then it took more time to find us a spot which was strange, because we reserved four seats, in a tiny venue with mainly four seater tables, so I thought they would hold seats for everyone that reserved a spot apparently not and we ended up in a “side room” that was essentially behind the stage. We couldn’t see the band. Our waitress had to cross the stage every time she came to take an order. Kind of strange for paying 15£ per person to reserve seats. But it unfortunately got worse. Only part of the band was present at the start, and they just played some standards and did some fun riffs nothing amazing but entertaining nonetheless. And then the singer for the evening came on stage. There’s no easy way to say it, the singing was just quite awful. Off key, singing way beyond the range, reading the lyrics to every song off of an iPhone they had to their face the entire time. Making up the playlist as they went along, clearly no alignment with the band on said playlist, which ended up being more pop covers than anything to do with jazz. So after 45 minutes of witnessing a terrible singer, who had to read the lyrics as they were singing as if it were karaoke , and a jazz band poorly cover pop songs imagine someone that cannot sing well trying to cover songs by Whitney Houston or Adele.. we decided we had enough and simply left. It’s not clear to me if this awful singer was a one time thing. But it was clearly a random match of singer to band, without any alignments or planned set lists. The entire evening felt like below ameture level. And we paid 15£ drinks to witness it.