Underground & cool · Jazz & live music · 14 picks · 10 districts

Jazz clubs and live music in Paris

Jazz cellars, a floating venue, rock and electronic clubs and a historic dance hall. Every pick is re-checked for continued operation.

Last re-checked 22 Sep 2026 · all underground & cool → · full ledger →

★Essentials — start here (1)

• ★ Le Bal Blomet€€€ · Historic jazz club · 15eOpened in 1924 and billed as Europe's oldest surviving jazz room, the Blomet runs a ticketed cabaret-and-jazz programme under its restored Montparnasse ceiling — Legrand and Aznavour tributes, a resident big band, solo stride piano.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Concert evenings, times varyAmong the oldestLong-running

1er · Louvre & Les Halles (1)District guide →

• Le Duc des Lombards€€ · Jazz clubTwo ticketed sets a night, 19:30 and 22:00, on a stage barely nine square metres, which keeps the room honest and the playing close. The booking runs to touring names.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Mon–Thu 19:30–midnight; Fri–Sat to 04:00; closed Sun

2e · Bourse & Sentier (1)District guide →

• Rex Club€€ · Electronic clubParis's longest-running room for techno and house, running its programming through a Funktion-One rig that rewards the people who came for the sound rather than the scene. Long sets that don't bother with last call until daylight.✓ Verified open · 21 Sep 2026Wed–Sat, midnight–7am

5e · Latin Quarter (2)District guide →

• Le Caveau de la Huchette€€ · Jazz cellarA vaulted 16th-century stone cellar run as a swing and bebop club since 1949, with a live band and a packed dance floor every night. Come to dance, not to watch.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Nightly from ~21:30 (to 2:30–5:30am)Long-running
• Caveau des Oubliettes€€ · Jazz cellarA 12th-century stone cellar, once a dungeon, given over to nightly jam sessions rather than ticketed billings — soul on Wednesdays, jazz-funk on Thursdays and Sundays. Sets run on a fixed clock at 21:45, 22:45 and 23:45.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Wed–Sun; sets 21:45/22:45/23:45; closed Mon–Tue

10e · Canal Saint-Martin & Gare du Nord (2)District guide →

• New Morning€€ · Jazz clubA 450-capacity room running since 1981, broad enough in its booking to put gospel, the Bad Plus, Kenny Garrett and Joshua Redman in a single fortnight.✓ Verified open · 20 Sep 2026Concert nights ~19:30–01:00Long-running
• Point Éphémère€ · Canal-side music & arts centreA former materials depot on the Canal Saint-Martin run since 2004 as a concert hall, studios and residency space, with a terrace straight onto the water. Amplified music most nights, plus dance, talks and temporary shows.✓ Verified open · 21 Sep 2026Mon–Sun, hours vary (often 12:00–02:00)

11e · Oberkampf & Bastille (1)District guide →

• Le Balajo€€ · Historic dance hallA 1936 musette hall on the old accordion street, the Balajo keeps its mirrored Deco room and still opens it on Monday afternoons for a thé dansant before the week tips into salsa classes and clubbing to dawn.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Mon 2–7pm; Thu 7:30pm–7am; Fri–Sat 11pm–7amLong-running

12e · Bastille, Bercy & Aligre (1)District guide →

• Supersonic€ · Free live-rock clubA Bastille rock bar that has put on free concerts most nights since 2016, across two rooms and a mezzanine where a mock food-truck bar looks down on the stage. Three bands deep, the late set holding until six at weekends.✓ Verified open · 22 Sep 2026Mon–Thu 18:30–02:00; Fri–Sat to 06:00

13e · Chinatown & Butte-aux-Cailles (2)District guide →

• Djoon€€ · House & disco clubOpen since 2003 under the elevated métro near the Seine, Djoon has spent two decades defending house, disco and soulful music on a 300-capacity floor built around one of the better soundsystems in the city.✓ Verified open · 11 Sep 2026Fri–Sun, ~11pm until early morning
• Petit Bain€€ · Floating music venueA three-level barge moored under the Mitterrand library, Petit Bain stacks a 450-capacity concert hall, a restaurant and a planted rooftop terrace over the Seine, with programming from international metal to club nights and activist festivals.✓ Verified open · 21 Sep 2026Tue–Sun, hours vary with the gig schedule

15e · Vaugirard & Beaugrenelle (1)District guide →

• ★ Le Bal Blomet€€€ · Historic jazz clubOpened in 1924 and billed as Europe's oldest surviving jazz room, the Blomet runs a ticketed cabaret-and-jazz programme under its restored Montparnasse ceiling — Legrand and Aznavour tributes, a resident big band, solo stride piano.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Concert evenings, times varyAmong the oldestLong-running

18e · Montmartre & Pigalle (2)District guide →

• Madame Arthur€€ · Drag cabaretA drag cabaret operating under this name since 1946, now a weekly French-chanson revue in a small Pigalle room: four performers in opulent costume reworking the standards, the theme rewritten each week.✓ Verified open · 19 Sep 2026Show nights Thu–Sat, eveningsLong-running
• La Station — Gare des Mines€ · Experimental music venueA timber venue built into a derelict rail building at the Porte d'Aubervilliers, on the literal edge of Paris beside the ring road — a self-described laboratory for the musical and artistic margins. Club nights, label showcases and experimental sets.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Open only during announced events

20e · Belleville & Ménilmontant (1)District guide →

• La Bellevilloise€€ · Arts & music venueLodged in an 1877 workers' cooperative, La Bellevilloise stacks a concert hall, a basement club, an olive-tree-lined restaurant and a rooftop across four floors, and programs all of them hard — Sunday jazz brunches, weeknight café-concerts, DJ nights.✓ Verified open · 14 Sep 2026Varies by event; restaurant Thu–Sat eve, Sun lunchLong-running