JMI Live
Live Jazz in Brisbane every week
JMI Live presents live jazz in Brisbane every Thursday night from 8pm and a jam session after each gig.
JMI Live is renowned for its intimate setting, providing the best opportunity to listen to live jazz in Brisbane. Just like a jazz club in New York, this venue is the ideal location for great jazz music, acoustics and atmosphere.
Upcoming gigs
Rose Pedal Saloon – 3/4/25
In this country it is quite a rare event to see a pedal steel guitar on stage, and even rarer for it to appear in a jazz line-up. This group features one of Australia’s masters of that...
Jeff Usher Quartet – 5/4/25
Jeff Usher’s Forty Years of Jazz concert series continues on Saturday 5 April with a performance by the Jeff Usher Quartet, featuring Jeff on piano and vocals, Murray Donald guitar, Nick...
Andrew Butt Trio + play (not so) standards – 10/4/25
The Andrew Butt Trio + returns to their favourite jazz room in the world to perform an eclectic mix of originals, standards, and "not so" standards from some of the great songwriters of...
Harvey Blues and The Keitels featuring Charlotte McLean – 17/4/25
The Keitels came together in July 2022 during Harvey’s last year of studying at The Jazz Music Institute; the intention was to showcase a genre of jazz called Soul Jazz. This short-lived...
Jeff Usher The Piano and Me – 19/4/25
Jeff Usher continues his ‘Forty Years of Jazz’ series with a solo piano performance at JMI Live Studio on Saturday, 19 April. Jeff has been described by Paul Grabovski as “One of...
Teaching Jazz: Tailoring Music Lessons for Every Student – 21/4/25
Delivered by JMI's Course Coordinator, Charlotte Mclean, this workshop is aimed towards teachers looking to develop their skills in lesson planning and development in teaching jazz....
Paula Girvan Trio – 24/4/25
The Paula Girvan trio is a longstanding, vibrant classic jazz piano trio. The trio’s style is deeply engrained in jazz and explores a collection of songs and eclectic standards from the...
International Jazz Day Celebration Concert – 30/4/25
We're celebrating International Jazz Day in style in 2025 with 3 amazing local Brisbane bands! This concert is a fundraiser for the Brisbane International Jazz Festival, with all proceeds...
Nadira and Friends – 1/5/25
If you haven’t seen or heard Nadira before, here’s what others say about her. Come see Nadira perform at JMI Live on Thurs, 1 May to see what the hype is all about! Accompanied by some of...