China Moses Tbilisi Concert: Dates, Tickets & Venue (Tbilisi)

A club night, not a stadium show

This one is small. China Moses brings her jazz and soul set to Tatuza Jazz Club in Tbilisi on November 27, 2026. That puts you in a jazz club, close to the singer, rather than squinting at a screen from row forty.

That scale suits her. Moses is a singer who talks to the room between songs and works the audience as part of the show. A club gives her space to do that, and gives you the chance to hear her voice without a big PA flattening it.

The concert is a single date in Tbilisi. Ticket sales, door times and seating arrangements are handled by Tatuza Jazz Club as the host venue.

Who you are going to hear

China Moses grew up surrounded by this music. She is the daughter of jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater and the American theatre and film director Gilbert Moses. She was raised largely in France, and her career has run between Paris and the wider European jazz circuit.

She started out in R&B and pop in France around the turn of the millennium, and also built a profile as a television presenter. Jazz came later and stuck. Her 2017 album Nightintales mixes jazz, soul and blues with a modern, groove-led edge. That mix is a fair guide to how she sounds live.

Expect:

• A warm, flexible voice that moves between ballads and up-tempo soul
• Plenty of chat and humour between numbers
• A small band backing her, as is usual for a club set
• Older standards set next to her own material

The Dinah Washington thread

One record explains a lot about her. In 2009 she released This One’s for Dinah, a tribute to Dinah Washington made with pianist Raphaël Lemonnier. Washington was the blues-and-jazz singer who refused to pick one genre, and Moses has worn that same refusal openly ever since.

If you only know her name, that album is the easiest way in before the night. Listen for how she leans into the blues phrasing rather than polishing it away. That rawness tends to come through even more in a club than on record.

Fans who know the tribute often hope to hear a Washington song or two live. Nobody here can promise a setlist, but the influence runs through everything she sings.

Tbilisi at the end of November

Late November is a quiet stretch in Tbilisi. The summer crowds and the grape-harvest visitors of September and October have gone. Evenings are cold, often close to freezing after dark, and a proper coat matters more than anything else you pack.

The upside is a city that has gone back to its own rhythm. Wine bars and restaurants are full of residents rather than tour groups, and an indoor jazz night fits the season well. Visitors usually build a long weekend around a date like this: the concert falls on a Friday.

Daylight runs out by late afternoon at this time of year. So any sightseeing on the concert day usually happens in the morning and early afternoon.

Getting to Tatuza and around the city

Tbilisi is easy to get around without a car. Tbilisi International Airport sits roughly 17 km east of the centre, and the drive in is usually short outside rush hour.

Inside the city, most visitors use:

• Bolt, the ride-hailing app that dominates Tbilisi, for door-to-door trips at night
• The Tbilisi Metro, two lines meeting at Station Square, handy for daytime moves along Rustaveli Avenue
• Walking, across the Old Town and Sololaki, though the streets are steep and cobbled in places

After a late set, a Bolt ride is the simplest way back to your hotel. Concertgoers typically order one from the door rather than hunting for a street taxi.

Club manners at Tatuza

A jazz club has a different etiquette to a concert hall. People talk before the set and between songs. Once a ballad starts, the room goes quiet, and the regulars notice who keeps chatting.

A few things that help the night go smoothly:

• Paying: Georgia uses the lari. Cards and contactless are widely accepted in Tbilisi bars, but a little cash covers small tabs.
• Tipping: many venues add a service charge to the bill. Look for it before adding a tip on top.
• Phones: a quick photo is usually fine; filming whole songs with the screen up blocks the view for people behind you.
• Ordering: drinks are normally ordered from your table or the bar between numbers, not mid-song.
• A word of Georgian: gamarjoba (hello) and madloba (thank you) go a long way with staff.

At club gigs like this, regulars tend to come in well before the band to get a decent table. The usual pattern is a drink, a set, a break, then a second set.

Before and after the set

The concert gives you an evening anchor; the city fills the rest. Tbilisi’s Old Town is the obvious start. The domed brick sulphur baths of Abanotubani sit below the walls of Narikala Fortress, and the cable car climbs to the fortress from Rike Park.

For dinner before the show, Georgian food is built for sharing. Order a few things for the table:

• Khachapuri, the cheese bread, in its boat-shaped Adjarian form with an egg on top
• Khinkali, soup dumplings eaten by hand, holding the twisted top
• Pkhali, vegetable and walnut pastes, good alongside wine
• A glass of qvevri wine, the amber style fermented in clay vessels

If you want more music after the encore, Fabrika, the converted Soviet sewing factory in Chughureti, keeps a busy courtyard of bars that runs late on weekends.