Vortex Jazz Club

J.A.M. String Collective
2025-06-11 18:30 - 20:30 (UTC+0) | 11 Gillett Square, London, N16 8AZ
Doors 6:30 PM, Music 7:30 PM - 1 set(s) of music

Line-up:
Julia Dos Reis - Viola
Miranda Lewis-Brown - Cello
Jan Halen - violin

About
Contemporary jazz string trio, J.A.M. "pushing at the boundaries of jazz... delivering walking lines, heavy riffs and rattles and taps” (Financial Times) bring improvising strings to the fore. They present music from their upcoming debut album, featuring music for ‘improvising string trio & loop pedals’ on themes of the Climate Crisis.

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Biscoe/Moore/Turner
2025-06-11 19:45 - 22:30
Doors 7:45 PM, Music 8:30 PM - 2 set(s) of music

Line-up:
Chris Biscoe - Alto Saxophone

Nathan Moore - Guitar

Roger Turner - Drums

About
Roger Turner and Chris Biscoe have played together since the 1960s, though it’s only in the 2000s that they have regularly gigged. N.O.Moore recently recorded with Roger, and the inspiring soundscape he brings to performance suggested him as a new voice to amplify this enduring partnership.

Roger Turner – drums and percussion
‘one of the giants of free improvisation’ - The Wire
Roger’s first collaborations were with London improvisers John Russell, Steve Beresford, Nigel Coombes, Gary Todd; he founded the workers’ music association series with concerts involving Derek Bailey, Eugene Chadbourne, Paul Rutherford, Lol Coxhill. Percussion/voice duos duo with Annette Peacock, working with her open-form song compositions, Phil Minton, Maggie Nichols, Ute Wassermann, Drums/piano with Irene Schweizer, Fred van Hove, Matthew Bourne, Pat Thomas.
2000 to now international tours with Fred Frith, Charles Gayle, Alex Ward, 6ix, Axel Dorner, Yukihiro Isso, Joelle Leandre, Toshinori Kondo, Trio’z, Evan Parker, Ab Baars, William Parker, Shelley Hirsch, Barry Guy, Barre Philips, Gunter Christmann, Marilyn Crispell, Henry Grimes and Cecil Taylor.

N.O.Moore – guitar and electronic instruments
N.O. Moore developed his musical ideas during workshops with Eddie Prevost and has gone on to partner John Butcher, Rachel Musson, Henry Kaiser, John Edwards, Jason Yarde, Binker Golding, Steve Noble and Steve Beresford. He recently launched the DXDY Recordings label to present improvised and electronic musics: dxdyrecordings.com
‘Moore shifts fluidly from argumentatively fractured jazz licks to spacey atmospherics to mad cat hisses; the appositeness of his contributions belies the sparseness of his recorded discography’ The Wire (Bill Meyer)

Chris Biscoe - alto/soprano sax, alto clarinet
Chris Biscoe is one of the players who bridge the worlds of jazz, free jazz and improvised music. Records and tours with George Russell, Mike Westbrook, Andy Sheppard, The Brotherhood of Breath, Liam Noble, Tony Kofi, Allison Neale, Hermeto Pascoal, The New York Composers Orchestra, and David Murray. His playing partners include Lol Coxhill, Eddie Prevost, Evan Parker, Rachel Musson, Ingrid Laubrock, Dewey Redman, Elton Dean, Paul Rutherford, Tony Marsh, and Vincent Courtois.

‘Biscoe’s ability to bridge sound worlds as different as Evan Parker’s and Charlie Parker’s makes him one of the most formidable European saxophonists’ John Fordham, The Guardian
