Swansea Jazz Club

A clarinettist in a green dress performs at a packed free gig during Swansea International Jazz Festival, with a double bassist and guitarists behind her

SWANSEA: Jazz festival takes a bow after ‘most successful ever’ run, closed by the man who started it all

Four days, more than 50 free gigs, jazz cruises up the Tawe, and a Sunday finale from the Cottle Brothers,…

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Kit Peters

10th September 2026

12th June 2026

SWANSEA: ‘A labour of love’ — the BEM for the man who’s kept the city’s jazz playing for 50 years

Dave Cottle smiling at a keyboard, holding his trumpet aloft