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Friday 9 May | 8.45pm | £10 | Book online
OrioleSoaring melodies, gently wafting rhythms, lively dances and emotional ballads...
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in the May programme.
Saturday 10 May | 8.45pm | £12 | Book online
Ian
Shaw Named 'Best Jazz Vocalist' at the BBC Jazz Awards in 2004 and 2007, Ian
performs songs from his new album of self-penned material – ‘Lifejacket'
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in the May programme.
Sunday 11 May | 8.45pm | £3 (musicians free)
‘An exciting collective of up-and-coming London-based musicians’ (Time Out).
Vortex gig reviews by Chris Parker
Anyone
familiar with Ingrid Laubrock's albums as leader particularly her 2003
F-IRE recording Forensic, will already be aware that her playing
is characterised by a sculptural quality, a scrupulous attention to nuances
of timbre and texture, that stands her in good stead in free-jazz contexts.
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the review
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Tubby Hayes
Intensity
Recorded at Ronnie Scott's in spring 1965, this hitherto unreleased material
catches Tubby Hayes in a brief period between bands as fellow tenor
player Simon Spillett points out in his comprehensive liner notes, Hayes
experienced 'a recurring headache' caused by his 'inability to fix satisfying
rhythm sections in the UK' until he chanced upon Tony Levin in 1966.
The James Taylor Quartet
Live
at The Jazz Cafe
The James Taylor Quartet have been dispensing their particular mix of
organ-centred jazz, funk and R&B since 1985, and this album catches them
in their natural setting, London's Jazz Cafˇ, a venue at which, according
to Taylor himself, they have played over 150 gigs in seventeen years.
Lionel Loueke
Karibu
The sheer novelty of Lionel Loueke's approach – he simultaneously
sings/croons in a gentle, high voice and picks out intriguing runs on
guitar, thus producing not instrumental solos plus vocal accompaniment,
but a single sound composed of voice and guitar – may not make his
music immediately accessible, but once assimilated, it richly rewards
the effort required to appreciate it.
Neon
Here
to There
Neon is a trio comprised of saxophonist/flautist Stan Sulzmann, pianist
(here also heard on french horn) Gwilym Simcock and vibes/marimba player
Jim Hart, and this is their debut recording. Given their instrumentation,
the trio might easily have produced a somewhat cluttered sound...
Tony Kofi Quartet
The
Silent Truth
Returning to the line-up that made the Monk-themed album All is Know
four years ago – Tony Kofi on various saxophones, pianist Jonathan
Gee, bassist Ben Hazleton, drummer Winston Clifford – celebrates,
according to Kofi himself, the fact that the group sound has 'solidified'
since that first recording.
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Monday 12 May

Jazz, klezmer, Latin and tango in funky, quirky arrangements by woodwind virtuoso Stewart Curtis.
Tuesday 13 May

‘...a no-holds-barred approach toward playing music grounded in the original seminal free spirit of jazz’ (All About Jazz).
Wednesday 14 May

The best of the vibrant Italian jazz scene.