Brian Culbertson books a return to Plaza Live for April 2027

The jazz keyboardist's first Orlando date since a November 2021 show in the same room is set for Thursday, April 22, 2027.

Brian Culbertson's last Orlando show was November 8, 2021, at Plaza Live. He's booked the same room for his return. The difference is what he's bringing: a catalog that has grown by several records in the years between, including the one he called his 30th studio album.

Brian Culbertson plays Plaza Live on Thursday, April 22, 2027. Doors are at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8. The date was announced Oct. 19, and tickets are through AXS. Our listings put Plaza Live at 1,655 capacity.

That 30th album is Day Trip. Coverage syndicated on AOL ran under the headline "Celebrated Jazz Artist, 52, Drops 30th Studio Album, 'Day Trip'." A national tour followed in the fall of 2025. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra hosted his Day Trip Tour at Symphony Hall on Oct. 29, 2025, and News4JAX reported that he would perform the new album at his Jacksonville show that fall. That's the closest the tour came to Orlando in the coverage we found.

Before Day Trip, his previous studio album was Brian Culbertson Presents: Sleep, from 2023. Two very different records in two years is a fair picture of how he works. The Charleston City Paper framed his fall 2025 stop there around big-band sounds, a long way from an album built for sleep.

Our data files him under jazz, and the venues around his tours say the same thing about his audience. Symphony halls and performing arts centers have been regular stops, including the Broward Center and Parker Playhouse in South Florida on the Day Trip run. Plaza Live is a different kind of booking, and for Orlando it means a show in a room he's already played rather than a drive south.

We haven't found an announcement tying the April date to a new album, and we haven't seen a tour name attached to it yet. If one comes, the set list will tell you. If not, Day Trip is still his most recent studio record, and Orlando hasn't heard it live from him.

Five and a half years is a long time between visits for an artist who tours this much. Thursday, April 22 is still more than five months away, which gives the regulars plenty of time to plan. For anyone who caught him at Plaza Live in 2021, it's a chance to hear what he's done since in the same room.

Sources: Celebrated Jazz Artist, 52, Drops 30th Studio Album, 'Day Trip' — AOL (aol.com); Brian Culbertson — Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (aso.org); Brian Culbertson Brings Day Trip Tour — Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (PDF) (aso.org); Acclaimed jazz artist Brian Culbertson to perform new album Day Trip at upcoming Jacksonville show — News4JAX (gmg-wjxt-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com); Culbertson brings jazz big band sounds to Charleston — Charleston City Paper (charlestoncitypaper.com); Brian Culbertson - Day Trip Tour — Broward Center (browardcenter.org); Brian Culbertson - Day Trip Tour — Parker Playhouse (parkerplayhouse.com); Brian Culbertson at Plaza Live — JamBase (jambase.com)