Swing

  • HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN
  • Tomorrow (Friday).
  • Doors 7.30pm.
  • Tickets £17 in advance or £19 on the door. Go to wegottickets.com

Combining smooth Paris-ian jazz with country and western swing, The Hot Club of Cowtown are a thrilling live spectacle.

The trio of fiddle player Elana James, guitarist Whit Smith, and upright bass player Jake Erwin fuse the gypsy jazz of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli’s Hot Club of France with the music of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. The result is infectious, foot stomping swing.

Reggae

  • SUSAN CaDOGAN AND DJ DEREK
  • O2 Academy, Oxford
  • Tomorrow (Fri)
  • Tickets £12 from ticketweb.co.uk

Susan Cadogan is a true great of Jamaican music. Best known for her 1975 top four hit Hurt So Good, the singer has sustained a career ever since, scoring hits with her songs Nice & Easy and Piece Of My Heart, and acquiring the status of national treasure on her home island. The show was upgraded from The Cellar due to ticket demand. She is joined by another reggae legend — Bristolian turntablist DJ Derek.

Smooth

  • BRYAN FERRY
  • New Theatre, Oxford
  • Sunday
  • Tickets £39.90-£70.90 from atgtickets.com

Lounge lizard and ladies’ man Bryan Ferry makes his return to the New Theatre for a set of career-spanning hits and smooth jazzy numbers. The dapper former Roxy Music star appears with his usual band and The Bryan Ferry Orchestra.

Folk-pop

  • ROBBIE BOYD
  • Jericho Tavern, Oxford
  • Saturday
  • Tickets £8.50 from wegottickets.com

Robbie is the latest singing-songwriting sensation to break through via the now-familiar channels of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. This Jericho Tavern gig comes on the heels of support slots for The Kooks, Delays and Johnny Flynn and sold-out shows at some of the capital’s smarter venues. Look out for catchy single When I believe.