Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club
Live Music Venue
135 Congress Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801
Event Types
Upcoming Events (21)
An Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee and multi-Blues Music Award nominee, Carolyn Wonderland is widely celebrated as “one of Texas’ finest guitar-slingers” (Austin American-Statesman). Bob Dylan famously declared, “She should be nationwide.” Blending fiery Texas blues, Tex-Mex, and riff-fueled rock ‘n’ roll, the guitar heroine and soulful vocalist has performed alongside icons like Levon Helm and Buddy Guy, in addition to spending years touring as lead guitarist for blues legend John Mayall. Bu
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Fronted by former Melvin Seals & JGB guitarist Zach Nugent, Dead Set is an extraordinary ensemble that brings the Grateful Dead’s timeless music to life with remarkable precision, authenticity, and passion. Celebrated for his uncanny ability to channel the spirit and virtuosic guitar work of Jerry Garcia, Nugent leads a tight-knit lineup of world-class musicians through the Dead’s vast, ethereal catalog. From the cosmic improvisations of “Dark Star” to the high-energy grooves of “Sugar Magnolia,
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Fall into your new Sunday routine with the return of our signature Sunday Jazz Brunch! Join us for an elevated culinary experience paired with live music performances from top local artists. Enjoy a full-service culinary buffet while enjoying live music throughout the morning and afternoon. Culinary Highlights: Custom omelet stations prepared to order Chef-selected breakfast & lunch entrees Seasonal fruit displays & house-crafted desserts Signature Bloody Mary station Event & Service Details: Ho
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Jimmy’s features a full-service restaurant, and food is available for purchase at every performance. Doors open at 5:30 PM, when you can order dinner directly from your ticketed seat, no separate dinner reservations needed! Kitchen service runs from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM. Pete Francis has never been afraid to build his own world. As the co-founder of Dispatch, he helped prove that independent bands could enjoy massive success on their own terms, selling over 700,000 albums and playing to arena-size
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The New Legacy Swing Band is an 18-piece powerhouse which has been around for 30 years and performs classics from big bands such as Stan Kenton, Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington, as well as more contemporary arrangements. The band’s range of contemporary music includes Michael Bublé, Chicago, Tom Jones, James Bond themes, the Bee Gees, Diane Schuur, Bette Midler, Queen and much more! The entertaining banter between their male and female vocalists who perform solos and duets are the perfect booken
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A three-time UK Blues Award nominee for “International Act of the Year” and winner of Classic Rock Magazine’s Blues Album of the Year, Bywater Call is a powerhouse seven-piece Southern soul and roots rock ensemble from Toronto, Canada. Fronted by raw, powerful vocalist Meghan Parnell and guitarist Dave Barnes, the band features Bruce McCarthy (drums), Mike Meusel (bass), John Kervin (keys), Stephen Dyte (trumpet), and Julian Nalli (tenor sax). Renowned for their explosive, emotion-fueled live sh
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Jimmy’s features a full-service restaurant, and food is available for purchase at every performance. Doors open at 5:30 PM, when you can order dinner directly from your ticketed seat, no separate dinner reservations needed! Kitchen service runs from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM. A three-time Grammy Award winner with the Christian McBride Big Band and a four-time Emmy Award winner as a mainstay on NBC’s Saturday Night Live Band, Virgin Islands-born saxophonist and composer Ron Blake is a true titan of mode
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Featured in Rolling Stone and Billboard with over 20 million streams, Venice Beach roots-rock collective Dustbowl Revival is celebrated for their explosive, genre-defying live shows. A staple of major global festivals like Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and Cambridge Folk Fest, the band seamlessly blends Laurel Canyon harmonies, folky funk, and New Orleans-tinted brass. Fresh off the release of their 8th studio album Change Your Mind, engineered by Brian Joseph (Bon Iver) and featuring guest appearan
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Fall into your new Sunday routine with the return of our signature Sunday Jazz Brunch! Join us for an elevated culinary experience paired with live music performances from top local artists. Enjoy a full-service culinary buffet while enjoying live music throughout the morning and afternoon. Culinary Highlights: Custom omelet stations prepared to order Chef-selected breakfast & lunch entrees Seasonal fruit displays & house-crafted desserts Signature Bloody Mary station Event & Service Details: Ho
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Recipients of 11 Boston Music Awards and two AFIM Best Pop Album awards, folk icons Patty Larkin and Lucy Kaplansky join forces for an unforgettable co-headlining evening. Dubbed “drop-dead brilliant” by Performing Songwriter and hailed by The New York Times as “a virtuoso guitar player,” Larkin brings over three decades of inventive guitar mastery, spotlighting material from her poetry-inspired release Bird in a Cage. Joining her is Kaplansky, praised by The Boston Globe as the “troubadour laur
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The Rockingham Groove is a fifteen-piece R&B dance orchestra that turns every stage into a celebration. Powered by a blazing horn section, rich vocal harmonies, and a deep-pocket rhythm section, the band brings generations of dance-floor favorites thrillingly to life. Their high-energy repertoire travels from the soul of Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, and Stevie Wonder to the funk and disco of KC and the Sunshine Band, Kool & the Gang, Donna Summer, and the Bee Gees, then turns up the pop/rock wi
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DANILO PÉREZ, BEN STREET, ADAM CRUZ TRIO: PANAMONK. “One of the most important jazz piano albums in history,” wrote DownBeat about Grammy Award winner and Doris Duke Award Artist Danilo Pérez’s groundbreaking 1996 recording Panamonk, a work now recognized as pivotal in the evolution of Latin jazz. This summer, Panamanian born pianist Danilo Pérez revisits the music of Panamonk on tour, performing Thelonious Monk’s compositions through a Caribbean lens with all-star veterans Ben Street and Adam C
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A Blues Music Award winner for Best New Artist and a nominee for Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year, Coco Montoya is celebrated by Living Blues as “one of the truly gifted blues artists of his generation.” Billboard raved, “In a world of blues guitar pretenders, Coco Montoya is the real McCoy.” Mentored by legendary “Master of the Telecaster” Albert Collins and spending a decade as lead guitarist for John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, the self-taught, left-handed guitar virtuoso and soul-deep
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Fall into your new Sunday routine with the return of our signature Sunday Jazz Brunch! Join us for an elevated culinary experience paired with live music performances from top local artists. Enjoy a full-service culinary buffet while enjoying live music throughout the morning and afternoon. Culinary Highlights: Custom omelet stations prepared to order Chef-selected breakfast & lunch entrees Seasonal fruit displays & house-crafted desserts Signature Bloody Mary station Event & Service Details: Ho
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3x-GRAMMY® Nominated Contemporary Jazz Fusion Band Acoustic Alchemy returns to Jimmy’s after amazing sold out shows in the last four years at Jimmy’s! Acoustic Alchemy have been at the forefront of contemporary jazz for over three decades, even if the band’s signature eclectic mix of styles has meant they have never comfortably fit snugly into any one genre. They have delivered 22 acclaimed albums over 30+ years. From their very first album ‘Red Dust and Spanish Lace’ (1987), to their current re
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Like the Carnival Season in New Orleans leading up to Mardi Gras Day, Halloween in Portsmouth has evolved into a month long celebration of sights and sounds and events. Join the band that marched in the inaugural Portsmouth Halloween Parade, Jumbo Circus Peanuts, for a special edition of Jimmy’s Local Artist Series the Monday before Halloween for a festive night of funk, soul, and horn-driven rock and roll. Costumes are strongly encouraged. Jimmy’s features a full-service restaurant, and food is
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A stellar lineup of Grammy-winning legends and international icons, Five Masters of Jazz features vocalist Donna Byrne, guitarist Gray Sargent, pianist Tim Ray, bassist Marshall Wood, and drummer Marty Richards. Hailed by Tony Bennett as “the real McCoy,” Byrne heads an ensemble whose individual credits include decades of touring and recording with Bennett, Lady Gaga and Gary Burton. In this all-new show, the powerhouse quintet presents a fresh setlist spanning Great American Songbook standards,
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Jimmy’s features a full-service restaurant, and food is available for purchase at every performance. Doors open at 5:30 PM, when you can order dinner directly from your ticketed seat, no separate dinner reservations needed! Kitchen service runs from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM. An ASCAP Next Generation of Songwriters recipient and Juilliard alumnus, international pianist, composer, and producer Mathis Picard is recognized as one of the most prominent rising voices on keys today. Mentored by Kenny Barron
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