For the Thursday 15 October to Sunday 18 October weekend, one of the strongest local threads runs through rhythm music made for listening rooms and dancefloors alike. Friday moves from Kishon Khan’s Lokkhi Terra with Dele Sosimi at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club to Gee Lee & Friends at Jazz Cafe; Saturday returns to Jazz Cafe for Crackazat and Jimpster’s live Freerange Records anniversary bill. The connection is less a shared genre label than a working London language: percussion, keys, bass weight and long-form groove carrying ideas between jazz presentation, club culture and live electronic music.[1][2][3]

Friday: Cubafrobeat at Ronnie’s, house after-hours in Camden

Lokkhi Terra feat. Dele Sosimi begins at 8.30pm on Friday 16 October at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club. The official programme frames the 11-piece group as a meeting point for Cuban, Bangladeshi and West African traditions, with Khan on piano, Sosimi on vocals and piano, plus percussion, tablas, batá, horns, flute, bass and drums. Sosimi’s time as a keyboard player in Fela Kuti’s Egypt 80 gives the bill a direct Afrobeat lineage, while the group’s Cubafrobeat collaboration supplies its particular London-made junction of musical histories.[1]

The same evening, Jazz Cafe hosts Gee Lee & Friends at 10.30pm, with Clara Rosa and Tentendo making a UK debut. Jazz Cafe describes the booking as distinctly London-influenced house, which makes it a useful late companion to Lokkhi Terra: the first show puts a large acoustic ensemble at the centre; the second shifts that rhythmic attention into a club-night frame. It is a concise Friday route for listeners who care about how a city’s international music communities reach the dancefloor through different formats.[2]

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Saturday: Freerange’s live electronic branch

Crackazat (The Live Band) plays Jazz Cafe at 6.30pm on Saturday 17 October, joined by Jimpster featuring drummer Andy Gangadeen and Faro. The venue presents the night as a 30 Years of Freerange Records event. That billing has real catalogue logic: Freerange’s current releases include Crackazat’s Shine EP, Sun and Evergreen, alongside Jimpster’s Bassic Rollers EP. This is a live-band booking with a label history underneath it, giving the weekend’s rhythmic thread a clear bridge from records and DJs to players in a room.[2][3]

For practical planning, Friday’s Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club listing currently shows Lokkhi Terra feat. Dele Sosimi as sold out, while Jazz Cafe lists both Gee Lee & Friends and Crackazat & Jimpster (Live) in its forthcoming programme. Recheck the official Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club and Jazz Cafe pages for ticket availability, door times, access information and any last-minute changes before travelling.[1][2]

These concerts happened on 16–17 October 2026

The next dates at these venues: Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club · Jazz Cafe

Sources

  1. Lokkhi Terra feat. Dele Sosimi — Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
  2. What's On — Jazz Cafe
  3. Freerange — Freerange Records