Programme announced for second Southbank Centre x Montreux Jazz Festival Residency

Following its acclaimed debut in 2025, the Southbank Centre and Montreux Jazz Festival announce the return of the Southbank Centre x Montreux Jazz Festival Residency, taking place Friday 13 – Sunday 15 March 2026 across the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room.

Entering its second year, the three-day residency investigates the question ‘What is Jazz Today?’, this time through the lens of Miles Davis – marking the centenary of his birth. As one of the genre’s greatest innovators, whose numerous performances on the Southbank Centre’s stages spanned two decades of the arts centre’s almost 75-year history, Davis’ restless reinvention provides a touchstone for this year’s programme, which brings together a diverse blend of artists who are reshaping the sound of jazz today.

At its core, the residency provides a platform for artists to honour jazz’s multi-faceted legacy, while pushing its sonic boundaries into new and unexpected places – from Grammy-nominated Theo Croker’s cosmic soundscapes to Children of Zeus’ soulful hip-hop inflections and corto.alto’s genre-fluid improvisation. Each artist embodies the visionary risk-taking and exploratory approach that has defined jazz for over a century.

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