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Toulouse Lautrec

A French brasserie at Kennington with a jazz room upstairs, and a jam session most weeks.

Jazz

Downstairs is a corner brasserie with a zinc bar; upstairs is a red room with a piano, a small stage and about eighty seats, and it runs music nearly every night. The New Orleans jam session is the one people travel for - anyone can bring an instrument and sit in - and the rest is quartets, singers and the occasional big band squeezed in. Nearly thirty nights a month, which is more than most rooms twice its size.

Where
140 Newington Butts, Kennington, SE11 4RN
Nearest station
Kennington · 5 min walk

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Regular events

  • Live music in the Piano RoomThursday to Saturday, from 19:00 · £5 on Thursdays, £7 Friday and SaturdayA rota of singers and pianists playing to the restaurant rather than to a ticketed room - until 20:30 on Thursdays and 21:30 on Fridays and Saturdays. The charge goes on your bill at the end, and a table is held for an hour and three quarters.
  • Jam sessionsTuesdays, each one monthly in rotationThree take turns: a New Orleans jam led by Dom Pipkin, a Latin jam on salsa, cumbia and merengue, and a funk jam the club says is the longest-running in London. A house band holds the stand and anyone can sit in.

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