His most recent album, SA and Beyond, released in 2024, won Best Traditional Jazz Album at the Mzantsi Jazz Awards in Johannesburg in 2025. Jazzwise described it as keeping alive the heritage of South African jazz for modern audiences. There is nobody quite like him. Googlies is very glad he's here.

A serious musician with a warm and swinging sound. Very welcome back, Steve!

Catch one of Britain's most complete guitarists in the intimate setting of Googlies, where he truly shines. 

Up close at Googlies, Louise Cookman's command of a song — and a room — is something to savour.

A regular and much-loved face at Googlies, Pete is the kind of musician who makes the impossible look effortless.

A keeper of the great British jazz tradition, Ian brings wit, warmth and world-class slide technique to everything he plays. An outstanding way to close out the month at Googlies. 

Her piano playing is as direct as her singing: nothing held back, whatever the song demands. At Googlies, her husband Roger Carey joins her on bass. Few singers make a room feel this close.

Expect a tenor sound with history behind every note, from a regular who knows this room as well as any stage in Soho.

The trumpet cuts through a room; the flugelhorn, with its wider bore and rounder tone, pulls the room in close. Expect him to move between the two all night, matching the horn to the mood of the tune. He is a rising talent, and Googlies got there early: this is far from his first Thursday night gig at Botany Bay.

The 2023 Parliamentary Jazz Awards shortlisted him for Instrumentalist of the Year, and he now plays a tenor saxophone with a history of its own: it reputedly belonged first to Hank Mobley, then to Ronnie Scott, before it found its way to Art. Six decades on, and many Thursdays into his history with Googlies, he shows no sign of picking a side.