The summer of 2020 was an usually festival-starved season, where most of Copenhagen’s live jazz scene migrated to safer outdoor settings. The forthcoming fall looks to be a different beast, as the majority of local venues return to their own indoor spaces, ensuring intimate musical experiences – and Jazz in Copenhagen gives you the complete […]

As a consequence of the global COVID-pandemic, Herbie Hancock and his crew decided to cancel or postpone all of their European dates. This is also the case for Hancock’s planned concerts at this year’s cancelled Copenhagen Jazz Festival, both of which have been postponed to new dates in 2021 – July 6 & 7. All […]

While Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2020 is still cancelled, a wide selection of Copenhagen venues and organizers are able to present concerts in line with the security measures enforced by the Danish authorities this summer. To support these activities, we have decided to extend our hitherto exclusively spring- and autumn-oriented calendar Jazz in Copenhagen – usually reserved for events outside […]

We are incredibly sad to note that Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2020 will be affected by the Danish government’s statement from April 6, extending the ban on larger events and festivals until August 31 2020. The ban is part of the nation-wide effort to halt the continued spread of COVID-19 in Denmark. As a result of this […]

The official printed guide for Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2019 is out now as part of Copenhagen Post – Denmark’s only English-language newspaper. The programme consists of 32 pages of recommendations, venues guides, concert highlights and a map covering all participating venues. The International Guide is produced by Copenhagen Jazz Festival and brought to you by Copenhagen […]

The complete program for the 19th edition of the Danish nationwide festival Vinterjazz is ready. This year, more than 150 venues and independent organizers – from Skagen in the north to Flensborg in the south, and from Fanø in the west and Bornholm in the east – are presenting a total of 600 concerts. The […]

Vinterjazz is a nationwide music festival that takes place in February each year. The festival spans three weeks featuring more than 600 concerts, 100 venues and 25 independent organizers from all across Denmark – from Aalborg, Aarhus, Odense and Esbjerg to the historic jazz capital of Copenhagen. The combination of the festival’s length and the […]

Copenhagen is a small city and easy to get around whether you are travelling by foot, by bike or by the city’s widespread public transport system. During Copenhagen Jazz Festival we will make it even easier In collaboration with DOT – the traffic companies of the capital – Copenhagen Jazz Festival offers an Event Ticket that lets […]

The story of Copenhagen Jazz Festival is closely tied to its posters, as every edition since 1982 has had a diverse range of visual artists creating each year’s art poster. This incredibly varied series of posters, whose means of expression span both painting, collage, photography and graphical rendering, has turned into somewhat collectible items, garnering […]

The 40th edition of Copenhagen Jazz Festival takes place in the summer of 2018. On that occasion we have been digging the program archives, newspaper articles and all releveant literature on the festival history to present the biggest and weirdest artists to play at Copenhagen Jazz Festival since 1979. Did you know that Sonny Rollins, […]