Jamie Cullum previewed his tenth studio album in Blue Note London’s launch season, at a fraction of the scale his arena and hall dates command.
Jamie Cullum, the jazz pianist who presents his own radio show, played four shows at Blue Note London in Covent Garden on Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 September 2026. The dates fell in the club’s launch season.
Cullum built his name as a pianist who performs like a frontman. He stands on the instrument, takes standards at the tempo of a rock band, and moves between the songbook and a pop cover without announcing the join.
Two decades into his career, he still treats jazz, pop and the standards repertoire as equals, and none of them as the serious one.
Blue Note London opened its first club on St Martin’s Lane in September 2026. Cullum played an early and a late show each night with his big band. He previewed his tenth studio album, written out of the repertoire Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee and Count Basie worked in.
He takes the same big band to the Royal Albert Hall for two nights in December. A room this size is not where an artist at that level normally works. The club’s opening season also carried Robert Glasper, Yussef Dayes, Nubya Garcia and Erykah Badu.