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Every Mood guide and review in Jazz & soul: 33 articles so far.
Jazz & soul
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City Guide Live Music in Austin: Inside the City's Honky-Tonk and Americana Circuit for October 2026
Live music in Austin is defined by americana (31.5% of bookings), country, folk, roots rock and honky tonk, not by a single festival. Mood added Austin to its catalogue in September 2026 and now tracks 2,448 upcoming events across 283 venues, including 75 at The Continental Club and 319 at the lesser-known Sam's Town Point, the city's busiest room. Mood's enrichment data also shows the honky-tonk landmarks read as less 'underground' than a jazz basement most visitors skip. The full October calendar is on Mood.
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City Guide Music Events in Budapest: A Guide to the City's Opera Houses and Club Scene
Budapest is a live-music city that runs two calendars at once: a subsidized classical and opera circuit at venues like the Hungarian State Opera, Müpa Budapest and the Liszt Academy, booked a season or more ahead, and an independent club and rock circuit at Akvárium Klub, Dürer Kert and A38 that turns over week to week. Mood added Budapest to its catalogue in September 2026 and is tracking 2,217 upcoming events across 238 venues in the city. This guide uses Mood's own event and venue data to cover both halves of that identity rather than reducing Budapest to either one.
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City Guide Music Events in Riga: What's On in October 2026
Music events in Riga in October 2026 run opera-first: Mood tracks 202 confirmed events across 54 venues, and the Latvian National Opera's twelve-date repertory run through Puccini, Strauss, Offenbach and Verdi is the single busiest booking sheet in the city. Elīna Garanča returns home for a concert with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra on the 25th of October, and a wider chamber, choral and contemporary-classical layer runs underneath the Opera's own listings. A smaller club circuit persists too - Klubs Depo's death-metal and stoner bills read far higher on Mood's undergroundness scale than anything else in the city, while a single techno date at POSEIDONS Club carries October's highest energy score. The full calendar updates daily on Mood.
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Venue Review Ronnie Scott's, London: The Verdict on Soho's Busiest Jazz Room
Ronnie Scott's is the Soho jazz club that has run at 47 Frith Street since 1965, and it remains London's busiest jazz booking by a wide margin - 48 confirmed nights in a recent month-long pull, nearly double the city's next-busiest room. Mood's own event data reads the club as polished and reservation-driven rather than underground: high seating and dining scores point to a dinner-and-show table model, and a below-average undergroundness reading confirms a heritage-jazz identity rather than a scene room. This review covers what the club actually books, what a night there costs in comfort and money, and which shows are on next.
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Venue Review Jamboree, Barcelona: The Verdict on Plaça Reial's Jazz Club After Midnight
Jamboree is a jazz club in Barcelona's Plaça Reial that has booked live jazz, blues and soul sets every evening since 1960, making it the oldest jazz venue in Spain, before the same 220-person cellar turns into a hip-hop, R&B and dancehall club after midnight. Now run by the Mas i Mas Group, it books more dates than any other Barcelona room in Mood's data, splitting almost evenly between the two identities. Mood's review weighs both sides: the jazz program's history and acoustics, the late-night club circuit's consistency, and the honest limits of a small, single-stairwell room that was never built for a big crowd.
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Venue Review Smalls Jazz Club, New York: The Verdict on the West Village's Busiest Basement Room
Smalls Jazz Club is a basement jazz room on West 10th Street in Greenwich Village that books more live sets than any other New York venue in Mood's data - 169 confirmed shows over the next 45 days, priced per set rather than per night through SmallsLIVE. Mood's enrichment data reads the room as more scene-coded and less commercial than the average New York jazz booking even at that volume, though a 0.199 capacity score confirms just how small the physical room actually is. It suits a listener chasing working New York musicians over one comfortable evening out.
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Venue Review Gretchen, Berlin: The Verdict on Kreuzberg's Genre-Blind Club
Gretchen is a live-music venue in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, built inside a walled 1854 stable block on the Dragonerareal site and running since 2011. Unlike Berlin rooms known for one sound, Gretchen's fifteen-year identity is refusing to specialise - booking melodic trap, afrobeats, jazz-funk and future-soul within the same month, including a 15 Years Gretchen anniversary run this autumn with Pi'erre Bourne and Romare x Wayne Snow. Mood's data shows the venue running above the Berlin average on booking capacity and selectivity, and below average on rawness despite the neighbourhood's DIY reputation. The trade-off: no single flagship weekly night to anchor a visit around. Mood tracks Gretchen's full calendar alongside the rest of Berlin's live music scene.
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Artist Review PRonX: Amsterdam's Melodic Fusion DJ, Reviewed
PRonX is the stage name of Ronald Pronk, an Amsterdam DJ whose Melodic Fusion radio show and residencies at PRIK, Café Brandon and Cafe The Queenshead have made him a fixture of the city's queer nightlife circuit since 2020. Mood's booking data traces his path through Amsterdam Dance Event showcases and Pride-season parties, where his sets consistently score at the ceiling of Mood's queerness index. This review weighs what two decades inside one scene actually built: a reliable, versatile generalist rather than a DJ with a singular signature sound. Mood tracks PRonX's upcoming Amsterdam bookings alongside the rest of the city's club calendar.
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City Guide Halloween Parties in New York City 2026
Halloween parties in New York City cover a far wider range than one costume night repeated in different rooms. Mood tracks 315 confirmed Halloween-tagged parties across the five boroughs for the final stretch of October and the first days of November 2026, including a Bushwick warehouse party from Sistek, a queer club night at Elsewhere, a goth rave at DROM, a masquerade ball built around a J-rock headliner at Webster Hall, a candlelit string quartet inside a Fifth Avenue church, and a Halloween cruise departing Skyport Marina. Mood lists each party with dates, venues and links to the official ticket providers.
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City Guide Things to Do in Barcelona in September: La Mercè and the Rest of the Month's Live Music
A guide to what September actually looks like for live music in Barcelona, anchored by La Mercè, the city's free four-day street festival around September 24th, whose official stages and correfoc processions sit outside any ticketing system and outside Mood's data. What Mood does track is the club programming built around the festival week, plus the rest of the month's calendar: a Weeknd stadium date, a steady techno and reggaeton club circuit, and a jazz scene concentrated in just two Gothic Quarter rooms. Full current listings, updated as promoters confirm new dates, stay live on Mood's Barcelona events page.
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City Guide What to Do in Paris Tonight
What to do in Paris tonight depends on which neighbourhood someone is in rather than a single citywide scene. This guide reads Mood's own Paris data for a single week - close to 350 events tagged across more than 200 genres - to show how the city splits between the high-danceability club strip around Bastille and Oberkampf, the Rue des Lombards jazz corridor near Chatelet, the Afro-Caribbean circuit further east through Belleville, and the smaller rooftop scene in the Latin Quarter. It covers where the night happens, how to choose by sound, whether a night runs indoors or under the sky, and how Mood pulls every Paris venue into one filterable feed.
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Guide Berlin Student Guide: Housing, Transit, and Live Music Beyond Techno
A Berlin student guide to what matters before term starts: what a WG-Zimmer actually costs near Humboldt-Universität, Freie Universität and TU Berlin, what the Deutschlandsemesterticket costs under the 2025/26 pricing, and where to find live music that isn't priced or programmed like a headline techno club. It draws on Mood's Berlin event data to point at specific alternatives to the city's flagship clubbing scene - a guitar-driven night at Cassiopeia on the RAW-Gelände, an experimental listening night at silent green Kulturquartier in Wedding, and a low-key house-and-jazz garden session at Orangerie Neukölln. Mood is a live-music discovery platform tracking more than 1,500 events a month across Berlin, built to help students find shows that fit their schedule and their budget.
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City Guide Jazz Clubs in New York: Inside the City's Deepest Live Music Calendar
Jazz clubs in New York host more events on Mood this month than any other genre in the city - 1,651 jazz and contemporary-jazz listings in August 2026, ahead of hip-hop, house, and electronic. That volume runs through Midtown big-band residencies at Birdland, century-old Greenwich Village rooms like the Village Vanguard, Smalls, Mezzrow, and Blue Note, and a long tail of jam sessions and workshops across Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. This guide breaks down where that calendar actually plays out, venue by venue, and links to New York's full jazz listings on Mood.
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Guide Shrine, Harlem: A Venue Guide to New York's Widest-Ranging Room for Live Music
Shrine is a live-music venue at 2271 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard in Harlem, New York, running nightly bookings since 2007 and named after Fela Kuti's original Shrine in Lagos. Mood's own listings show Shrine hosting 85 events this month across 58 distinct genre tags, led by R&B and hip hop, then reggae, jazz, and afrobeat. This Mood venue guide covers what Shrine actually books, its address and neighborhood in central Harlem, and what a night at the venue tends to look like, based on Mood's event data rather than the venue's general reputation.
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Guide New York Student Guide: Housing, Transit, and Live Music on a Budget
A New York student guide to what matters before term starts: where NYU and Columbia students actually live, what rent runs in Greenwich Village, the East Village, Morningside Heights, and Harlem, and what a subway ride costs under the MTA's 2026 fare rules. It also covers where to find live music that fits a student budget, drawing on Mood's New York event data - including jazz clubs and independent hip-hop and R&B showcases with low commerciality scores. Mood is a live-music discovery platform tracking thousands of events a month across New York, built to help students find shows that fit their schedule and their wallet.
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City Guide Music Events in New York: October 2026
Music events in New York for October 2026 include Harry Styles's Madison Square Garden residency carrying into a second month, Smashing Pumpkins and Brand New anchoring Barclays Center, and Don Omar's farewell tour crossing from Brooklyn to Newark's Prudential Center on back-to-back nights. Mood tracks 5,100 listings across the metro area this month, and jazz remains the single most-applied genre tag in the data at 1,164 listings, ahead of electronic and hip hop, carried by rooms like Smalls Jazz Club and Mezzrow that run multiple ticketed sets nightly. Forest Hills Stadium closes out its outdoor season with FISHER's two-night closing weekend.
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City Guide Christian & Gospel Concerts in Los Angeles: A Guide to the City's Faith-Based Shows
Christian and gospel concerts in Los Angeles are the ticketed, live-music side of the city's faith scene - worship-night tours, gospel day parties and gospel-choir shows that sit apart from Sunday services. In Mood's data they run across very different rooms, from worship nights at the downtown Novo to the Eagle Rock Gospel Singers out at Pappy & Harriet's in the high desert. The liveliest corner is the gospel day party: the Gospel Melodies Day Party at Los Globos reads 0.8 on both energy and danceability, closer to a club night than a service. It is a small but real niche, and Mood pulls the shows into one calendar so they are easier to find.
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City Guide Music Events in Los Angeles by Neighborhood: A Guide to the City's Areas
Los Angeles is less one nightlife scene than a dozen, spread across neighborhoods that can be an hour's drive apart, and where you are changes what kind of night you get. West Hollywood leans drag and pop, Santa Monica jazz and poolside house, Hollywood the widest range of iconic and eclectic shows, Downtown and the Eastside rap, indie and psych, and the Valley tributes and local nights. In Mood's data, LA lists more than 5,000 music events over the next three months - a scale that only makes sense broken down by area. Mood pulls the whole calendar into one place and lets you filter by neighborhood, so the question becomes which area rather than which ten pages to check.
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City Guide Northern Soul & Motown All-Dayers in London
Northern Soul and Motown all-dayers are London's enduring vintage-soul circuit - all-vinyl, all-night sessions built on 1960s soul for a loyal, long-running crowd. Northern Soul is a UK scene assembled around rare American soul 45s, historically danced through the night; Motown sits alongside it as the chart-known cousin. The two signature formats are the all-nighter and the daytime all-dayer. In Mood's data these nights score highest on nostalgia in the city - the Fox & Firkin all-nighter reads 0.9 and the all-dayers sit at the top of the scale. Mood pulls the whole circuit into one calendar with venue, date and a link out.
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Guide Bruno Mars in Los Angeles: The Romantic Tour's Multi-Night Stadium Run
Bruno Mars - The Romantic Tour reaches Los Angeles for a three-night run at Los Angeles Stadium in September-October 2026, with dates on September 30th, October 3rd and October 6th. Mood's calendar lists each night as a separate ticketed event rather than one show, a residency-style stand that signals unusual scale. In Mood's data the run scores 1.0 on capacity, the top of that scale, marking a full-stadium production, and rates high on vocality, around 0.8 to 0.9 - a voice-and-showmanship-forward set across pop, funk, soul and R&B. This spotlight covers the dates, the venue, the production and how to find the shows on Mood.
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City Guide Music Events in Barcelona: What's On in October 2026
Music events in Barcelona in October 2026 span four overlapping scenes: a house-and-techno club circuit, a reggaeton and Latin-pop calendar close to it in size, a multi-stage Halloween weekend at Parc del Fòrum, and Jamboree's nightly jazz, hip-hop and R&B rotation, now the single most-booked room on the board. Mood is tracking more than 1,560 events for the month, up from 1,200-plus in September, led by a 611-strong house-techno cluster, a 534-event reggaeton and Latin circuit, and 107 listings at Jamboree alone. Palau Sant Jordi runs thirteen arena dates including The Strokes, Niall Horan and Jungle. This guide maps the rooms carrying each scene across the full month.
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City Guide The Best Jazz Clubs in Paris: A Guide to the City's Live Rooms
Paris keeps live jazz in small rooms - cellars and clubs that programme players most nights. This guide covers the best jazz clubs in Paris: the historic Rue des Lombards trio (Le Duc des Lombards, Le Baiser Salé, Sunset/Sunside), the Caveau de la Huchette, the larger New Morning stage, and newer rooms like the 38Riv and JASS Club. In Mood's data the city's jazz listings skew toward seated listening rooms rather than dance floors, with real July bookings you can track by venue and date.
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Music Events in Los Angeles: What's On in October 2026
Los Angeles runs one of the largest live-music calendars in the United States, with 3,060 events listed across 562 venues in October 2026. The month's arena tier includes Doja Cat's Tour Ma Vie World Tour and Gorillaz's The Mountain Tour at the Kia Forum, Kacey Musgraves' Middle of Nowhere Tour at Crypto.com Arena, and Tom Jones marking six decades on stage at the Greek Theatre. Rock, alternative rock and indie rock together remain the calendar's largest genre cluster, ahead of pop and hip-hop, while jazz keeps a weekly home at The World Stage in Leimert Park. Mood aggregates every venue and promoter's listings into one searchable calendar with dates, lineups and links, rather than a dozen separate box-office sites.
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City Guide How to Find Music Events in Berlin: A Guide Beyond the Techno
A guide to finding music events in Berlin covers the full calendar beyond techno - the jazz cellars, the classical halls and the experimental scene that the club reputation overlooks. Mood is tracking more than 400 upcoming Berlin events, with around 250 in the next month, and in its listings classical and jazz rank just behind electronic among the most-programmed genres. The city's fragmented scene lives across hundreds of venues and separate institutional sites, so the practical way to find what's on is one aggregated feed with date, lineup and price - which Mood pulls into a single Berlin calendar.
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City Guide Fête de la Musique Berlin 2026: A Guide to the City's Free Music Day
Fête de la Musique is a free, one-day music festival held every 21 June, and Berlin runs one of the largest editions outside France. In 2026 it falls on Sunday 21 June across roughly 300 stages, from canal-side techno at Club der Visionäre and open-air sessions at Nuthepark to organ nights at St. Thomas Church and community block parties. Every performance is free - there are no tickets. Across the day's events, commerciality averages 0.16 in Mood's data, the marker of community programming over a commercial event series. Mood lists the individual events with lineups and locations so the day can be planned in advance.
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City Guide Music Events in Paris: What's On in October 2026
Music events in Paris in October 2026 run across three registers at once: a jazz circuit at 38Riv Jazz Club and Le Baiser Sale that runs near-nightly regardless of season, a techno cluster split across two adjoining 19th-arrondissement venues that doubles as an unadvertised jazz-fusion residency, and a sixteen-date Accor Arena run that closes the month. Mood is tracking 2,009 events across Paris this month, led by electronic, jazz, pop and house. Highlights run from Acid Oslo's Asphalt Techno night on 5 October to Camille Bertault's second carte blanche at 38Riv and Simple Plan closing the Accor Arena run on the 31st. The full Paris calendar, filterable by genre and date, is on Mood.
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City Guide Music Events in Amsterdam: What's On in October 2026
Music events in Amsterdam in October 2026 are dominated by one stretch: Amsterdam Dance Event takes over the city from 21 to 25 October, pushing Mood's tracked count to 2,061 events, up from 1,193 in September. Black Coffee opens ADE week at Ziggo Dome on 21 October and Shelter's 20 Years of The Warehouse Project follows the next night at the opposite end of the underground scale. Outside ADE, J. Cole and Khalid both play the arenas on 12 October, Young Thug follows on 14 October, and Club Church's thirteen October bookings read a full 1.0 on Mood's queerness dimension. The full calendar, including Paradiso and Melkweg's nightly rotation, updates daily on Mood.
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City Guide Where to See Live Music in Athens: A Venue Guide by Scale
A year-round reference to the rooms where Athens hears live music, sorted by scale rather than by season. It runs from the OAKA stadium tier and the Telekom Center arena down through open-air theatres like Lycabettus, cultural spaces like Technopolis, mid-size clubs and the underground tier, to Fuzz Club for guitar music and Half Note for jazz. Each room gets what it is, who plays there, and when it goes quiet, anchored on what Mood tracks across the city calendar.
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Guide Greek Summer Festivals 2026: The Complete Guide
Greek summer 2026 runs a denser music festival calendar than any of its Balkan neighbours - five major Athens-area festivals (Release Athens, Ejekt, Rockwave, Rizes, Signal) plus the Sani Festival weekend program in Halkidiki and the Reworks Festival arc in Thessaloniki in September. The headline single anchor is Gorillaz at Release Athens on June 25 (147 interested in Mood data - the most-watched single Greek concert this summer). The Cure plus Florence + the Machine close out the indie-rock arc at Ejekt mid-July. Sani Festival opens with Robert Plant on July 11. Reworks brings Thessaloniki's techno weekend in September. Mood lists every confirmed date with lineup, venue and ticket info.
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Editorial Paradiso Amsterdam: Inside the Church-Turned-Music-Venue Since 1968
Paradiso Amsterdam is the city's most historically significant music venue - an 1880 church squatted by hippies in October 1967 and officially opened on March 30, 1968 as Cosmisch Ontspanningscentrum Paradiso. Until the 1990s it was Amsterdam's largest concert club, and the Rijksmonumentenregister listed it as a national monument in 1980. Today the venue runs roughly 600 events a year across rock, indie, electronic, jazz and hip-hop, with the main hall, the upstairs Kleine Zaal and the Tolhuistuin garden running parallel programming. June 2026 brings Mokum Records, Cabaret Voltaire and a Club Roto x Paradiso night; July hosts two Thievery Corporation dates and the Dekmantel Festival official night with Speedy J and Barker. Mood lists every Paradiso night with full lineup and ticket links.
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City Guide Jazz Concerts in Athens: What's On in October 2026
Jazz concerts in Athens in October 2026 include a four-night residency by drummer E.J. Strickland with saxophonist Soweto Kinch and bassist Reggie Washington at Half Note Jazz Club, plus two separate Gazarte tributes marking the shared Miles Davis and John Coltrane centennial - James Carter's organ trio on October 13 and pianist Emmet Cohen's quintet on October 29. Mood is tracking 42 jazz-family bookings across 14 Athens venues this month, with Theatre of the NO, Half Note Jazz Club and Spiti Art Bar carrying most of the calendar. Full dates, venues and links are on Mood's Athens events page.
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Guide How to Find Music Events in Athens with Mood's AI Discovery Engine
Mood is an AI-powered live music discovery platform that catalogues over 11,600 events per year in Athens alone - from underground techno at Universe Athens to rebetiko at Technopolis. Its recommendation engine builds a semantic profile of your musical taste from your Spotify history, followed artists, and attendance data, then surfaces events matched to your preferences with a transparent 'because you like X' reasoning line for each suggestion. The platform also includes a conversational discovery feature on musicofourdesire.com for plain-language event queries. This guide covers how to use Mood's AI tools to find live music in Athens.
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City Guide A Guide to Rebetiko in Athens: Where to Find Live Performances
Rebetiko is Greece's definitive urban blues, a genre born in 1920s Piraeus that remains a central pillar of the 11,600+ live events cataloged annually by Mood in Athens. This acoustic music centers on the bouzouki and baglamas, deeply rooted in the history of marginalized port life. Key hubs for authentic performances include Psyrri, featuring historic venues like Kavouras and Stoa Athanaton; Exarcheia, known for intimate spaces like Rebetiki Istoria; and Piraeus, home to traditional spots like