Jazz Up the 80s with the Jay Rayner Sextet
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Jazz Up the 80s with the Jay Rayner Sextet

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Thursday, 16 July 2026 at 21:00

PizzaExpress Jazz Club (Soho)

10 Dean Street, London W1D 3RW

Time

21:00

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£35

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Join the Jay Rayner Sextet as they celebrate the greatest jazz-influenced chart hits of the 80s, including dance floor fillers by Sade, Matt Bianco, Swing Out Sister and Sting. As a man who came of age in the 80s, restaurant critic, MasterChef judge and jazz pianist Jay Rayner has long been fascinated by the chart hits from that decade which weren't just jazz inflected but had jazz in their very bones. Now he leads a sextet of top flight musicians to celebrate the greatest of those 80s songs, with new arrangements of brilliant tracks by Sade, Matt Bianco, Working Week, Everything But The Girl, Swing Out Sister, Sting and much more. Get your jazzy 80s on with the Jay Rayner Sextet. Box-shouldered jacket and big hair optional. Jay Rayner (piano) Pat Gordon-Smith (voice) Dave Lewis (sax) Robert Rickenberg (bass) Chris Cobbson (guitar) Sophie Alloway (drums)

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