After sold out shows at Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho and Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club, up and coming jazz saxophonist and composer Jessica Bullen is making her Vortex debut this November with a quintet featuring Jacky Naylor, Billy Marrows, Pete Komor and Olly Sarkar.
Welcoming and relaxed, come for a drink, sit back and enjoy the music, or bring your horns, sticks and strings to join in during the second set.
For this year’s London Jazz Festival, Mark Holub presents two of his projects: Anthropods – a new band featuring some of the most highly acclaimed players from the Viennese jazz and improvised music scenes & Led Bib (familiar to many Vortex regulars) returning to the club with a brand new set of music.
Join us for a special series of Late Night Jam sessions which will briefly replace our regular Sunday sessions, hosted by four of London’s finest: drummer Jas Kayser, pianist Rick Simpson and tenor saxophonists Helena Kay and Riley Stone-Lonergan.
Black Top comprises the duo of Award winning Virtuoso musicians Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas. Black Top’s blend of lo-fi samples, dub effects and experimental electronics has been one of the leading groups in free improvisation on the International scene since 2012.
This quartet composed of Swiss musicians led by harpist Julie Campiche of the new generation proposes a music where the electronic effects of each instrument are intertwined in delicate yet powerful acoustic space, balancing structured passages with open improvisations.
Featuring eight of the most exciting improvisers around, the Octet plays Brice’s original compositions, combining fiery free jazz, dense counterpoint, beautiful melodies and crunchy textures.
Join us for a special series of Late Night Jam sessions which will briefly replace our regular Sunday sessions, hosted by four of London’s finest: drummer Jas Kayser, pianist Rick Simpson and tenor saxophonists Helena Kay and Riley Stone-Lonergan.
Trio Grande 2.0 Is a collaborative multi-national trio with UK saxophonist Will Vinson, Israeli guitarist Gilad Hekselman and US drummer Nate Wood.
Mike Gibbs 85th birthday celebration with the Trinity Laban Jazz Orchestra conducted by Mike Gibbs & Josephine Davies.
Mike Gibbs 85th birthday celebration with the Trinity Laban Jazz Orchestra conducted by Mike Gibbs & Josephine Davies.
What is ‘new’ in jazz and what is part of the ‘tradition’? Is the latter word an insult and to be ignored? And yet, much of the new jazz nowadays…
Mike Gibbs 85th birthday celebration with the Trinity Laban Jazz Orchestra conducted by Mike Gibbs & Josephine Davies.
Mike Gibbs 85th birthday celebration with the Trinity Laban Jazz Orchestra conducted by Mike Gibbs & Josephine Davies.
TSOJTC is delighted to present the Leon Foster-Thomas Quartet. LFT is winner of the World Steelband Music Festival’s Soloist and Duet competitions in 2002 and 2004, critics laud him as “the next big thing on his instrument”, “…an enthralling improvisor…” All About Jazz; “…masterful with impeccable musicianship” – When Steel Talks. Tonight he performs for the first time at the Vortex with his London quartet as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival.
Vocalist Brigitte Beraha joins the London Jazz Orchestra and director Scott Stroman for two sizzling sets of modern big band music as part of the 2022 EFG London Jazz Festival.
Named after the incredible British super-group ‘The Printmakers’ and featuring many of its core members.
Come down for a drink downstairs with performances from a rotating group of London-based singers and instrumentalists. Arrive early if you’d also like to join in for when the sets…
Join us for a special series of Late Night Jam sessions which will briefly replace our regular Sunday sessions, hosted by four of London’s finest: drummer Jas Kayser, pianist Rick Simpson and tenor saxophonists Helena Kay and Riley Stone-Lonergan.
A special performance from the Calum Gourlay Big Band – featuring performances to celebrating the life and career of Charles Mingus in his centennial year and music from rising star, saxophonist and composer Olivia Murphy.
The paths of three musical giants converge for one night only, in what promises to be a show of London’s finest Jazz and groove improvisation.
Long-time night manager at the Vortex Laurie Evans celebrates the release of their new book ‘Derry Boys’ – join us to hear from the author, grab copies of the new book and listen to special performances from two members of the Undertones.
“A trio of masters here, with every note and sequence a new discovery” – Chris Searle Morning Star
Special performances hosted by Richard Brice. Gary Sansome Barbara Fernandez Daphna Baram Stephen Catling HEADLINING: SAM RHODES
An evening of music celebrating the first great Miles Davis quintet, focussing on their Prestige recordings
How tolerant should we be to, say, Russian musicians who want to play. It’s certainly the case that in Poland Russians, irrespective of their beliefs and the quality of their…
A weekly session on Sunday evenings, hosted by four of London’s finest: drummer Jas Kayser, pianist Rick Simpson and tenor saxophonists Helena Kay and Riley Stone-Lonergan, each one hosting one session on rotation.
Tony Kofi and Alina Bzhezhinska bring you poems from the other side, drawing inspiration to play some original music and classic jazz composers on poems from some of the greatest poets.
Scottish songwriter, composer, and saxophonist Matthew Herd writes for and performs with Seafarers, a band that unites some of the most prominent voices in folk and improvised music (Lauren Kinsella, Tom McCredie, Tom Taylor & Dave Hamblett)
Award winning Electric Jazz harpist and composer Maria-Christina Harper (Katie Melua, Ala.ni) is joined by winner of the 2019 Parliamentary jazz awards saxophonist Josephine Davies and Eric Clapton’s collaborator, drummer Evan Jenkins to produce a dynamic project
Bassist Michelangelo Scandroglio, barely twenty years old, is already considered one of the most interesting promises of Italian jazz. Tonight, he presents music from his first album in a quintet format feat. Alex Hitchcock (tenor sax), Paolo Petrecca (trumpet), Fergus Mccreadie (piano) and Mattia Galeotti (drums)
Final date of the Upper Austrian Jazz Orchestra UK tour, playing the music of British composer Ed Puddick.
Welcoming and relaxed, come for a drink, sit back and enjoy the music, or bring your horns, sticks and strings to join in during the second set.
Ari Hoenig is a ground-breaking drummer, composer and educator who has become one of the most significant and influential voices in the jazz and drumming world over the last two decades.
Ari Hoenig is a ground-breaking drummer, composer and educator who has become one of the most significant and influential voices in the jazz and drumming world over the last two decades.
Kavuma’s Quartet (Mark Kavuma – trumpet; Noah Stoneman – piano; Caius Williams – bass; Jack Thomas – drums) has developed and nourished a truly unique and unmistakable sound with their stylish spin on the jazz genre soaked in soul and engrossing grooves.
Multi-award-winning vocalist Christine Tobin sings with two of the U.K.’s leading jazz musicians; pianist Liam Noble & guitarist Phil Robson who are both long-term musical collaborators. The repertoire of ‘Outside The Box’ will include songs from Christine’s highly acclaimed albums alongside a selection of new originals from all three performers and more.
One of Ireland’s improvising masters joins the incomparable pairing of John Edwards and Mark Sanders after a seven-year hiatus.
“This is the first time Geoff and I have played duo: we talked about it a lot. He’s a master of song form improvisation, and I’m excited about trying to keep up! We are also recording the gig for future release, so please come down and have your rapturous applause captured for posterity! ” Liam Noble
Welcoming and relaxed, come for a drink, sit back and enjoy the music, or bring your horns, sticks and strings to join in during the second set.
Jazz seems to be a music where there is a great deal of integration across the generations. Why is this awareness and respect? Is this correct? And if so, why?…
A weekly session on Sunday evenings, hosted by four of London’s finest: drummer Jas Kayser, pianist Rick Simpson and tenor saxophonists Helena Kay and Riley Stone-Lonergan, each one hosting one session on rotation.
Emerging out of the popular Vortex downstairs jams, this new sextet presents a selection of lesser-known, more recent jazz standards
Another wonderful Mopomoso Sunday afternoon feat. NUNC (David Leahy & Paloma Carrasco Lopez), Henry McPherson, Petra Haller, Paul Jolly & Charlotte Keeffe
The Christoph Irniger Trio celebrates melody without once degenerating into the trivial. They are tone poems which demonstrate that accessible melodies and complex tonal worlds need not be mutually exclusive and can in fact make sense of each other.
Come down for a drink downstairs with performances from a rotating group of London-based singers and instrumentalists. Arrive early if you’d also like to join in for when the sets…
Award winning saxophonist and composer Josephine Davies brings her 17 piece jazz orchestra to the Vortex for the second time. Tonight’s concert will feature her new suite ‘Ascension’, a series of 8 pieces representing the 8 parts of the Celtic Wheel of the Year, bringing a much needed celebration of nature, connection, and renewal to our fragmented times.
Alex Bonney’s quartet plays original compositions with plenty of room for group improvisation.
A new composition by Johnny Hunter which is constructed to get the most amount of music from the least amount of information. Written specifically to use the outstanding improvising skills of these musicians
Celebrating ten years of work, the all-star collective trio Thumbscrew celebrates by adding new instrumental hues to their already well-established sound on Multicolored Midnight, the group’s seventh album