“Winner of the “Best Jazz Vocalist Category” in the 2013 British Jazz Awards, Wardell is noted for her vocal improvisations and vocalese lyrics to instrumental solos.        

JUST ANNOUNCED! A mouthwatering concert! The collaboration of Tina May (“extravagantly gifted” according to Dave Gelly in the Observer) and Tony Coe most recently surfaced in an album with Enrico…

Parker has a long enduring relationship with the Vortex and continues his monthly residency. Always stimulating, complex while beautiful. Tonight Evan Parker performs with: Tony Hymas (piano), known for his…

What a group! Legends in abundance! Paul Dunmall and Keith Tippett have played together in many ensembles over the last 30 years, but the partnership is best known as being…

By Bruce Lindsay from allaboutjazz, reviewing his album Choices: “Strip out every other musician from the tunes on Choices and Davide Mantovani’s bass lines are impressively attention-grabbing on their own. Put the…

American pianist Andrew Oliver presents a new group performing the music of the great pianist and composer Andrew Hill, whose highly individual and distinctive compositions spanned his long career from…

1st set: Robert Stillman Quartet – Rainbow album launch Robert Stillman (saxophone), Lucy Railton (cello) Kit Downes (piano) Tom Skinner (drums) Rainbow is the new album by Robert Stillman. To the extent…

Now celebrating our 25th year of an unbroken concert series dedicated solely to free improvisation the first concert of this anniversary year features three fascinating duos, each containing one of…

David Bowie started life playing an alto saxophone, influenced by jazz, and his last album is played with jazz musicians. So where more appropriate to celebrate the music than in…

A night of the finest music from those who were at the vanguard of the 1960s London jazz scene. HENRY LOWTHER During the sixties Henry was one of the first…

Trio line up Robert Mitchell – piano Tom Mason – bass Laurie Lowe – drums Robert Mitchell has released eight albums, won awards in both the UK and Europe and…

A double bill: a new dynamic duo of Tori Freestone (saxes) with Alcyona Mick (piano). Also playing will be a solo bass set by Dudley Phillips (Basshead), known for work…

Eddie Prevost, doyen of drummers, founder of AMM and improviser par excellence, returns with another series of meetings with remarkable saxophonists. Tonight: Tom Chant, John Edwards, Eddie Prevost

Known for its wild, totally free evenings of challenging and up-lifting improvisations which have consistently united a cross cultural and cross generational posse of players, Freedom will continue to pursue the promise…

‘Iness Mezel knows how to choose a good producer, even if she seems less sure as to the direction her music should take. Brought up in Algeria and France, with…

The wonderful London Jazz Orchestra for their monthly residency, this time with the fascinating vocals of Brigitte Beraha. Once again fabulous compositions and arrangements by this great line-up. No better…

Late night sessions begin with a Loop Collective special. Rory Simmons(trumpet), Dave De Rose (drums), George Crowley (sax) Big beats, free improv and modular synths

Jasper Hoiby (bass), Mark Lockheart (saxes), Laura Jurd (trumpet), Will Barry (piano), Corrie Dick (drums) Second of this two night residency, we’re excited that our old friend Jasper Hoiby (Phronesis)…

Jasper Hoiby (bass), Mark Lockheart (saxes), Laura Jurd (trumpet), Will Barry (piano), Corrie Dick (drums) Excited that our old friend bassist Jasper Hoiby, leader of Phronesis will be showing off his…

A chance to hear two of our great young players in duo. They have been working together since the foundation of Empirical more than a decade ago. The other half…

Andre’s trumpet playing is a delight for its care and imagination. His new band mixes musicians from both sides of the Atlantic. With Tori Freestone (saxophone), Brigitte Beraha (vocals), Ivo…

A new sextet for the New Year:  pianist Barry Green, with Miguel Gorodi (trumpet), Sam Braysher (alto), Tom Barford (tenor). Flo Moore (bass) and Will Glaser on drums.

The big band is the Rolls Royce of jazz. Once heard, immediately a convert! So it’s great to have a welcome return for a stalwart of the old Vortex. John…

Always great in these intimate gigs, Britain’s finest jazz vocalist, producer and songsmith, Ian Shaw hosts an exuberant party with a set of appropriately festive songs. Whether it’s his radical…

Always great in these intimate gigs, Britain’s finest  jazz vocalist, producer and songsmith, Ian Shaw hosts an exuberant party with a set of appropriately festive songs. Whether it’s his radical…

Estelle Kokot – Your Half Of The Moon Having ​recently returned​ from South Africa where she performed at The Joy of Jazz Festival with Chicago born saxophonist Chico Freeman, ‘Seductively poetic South African…

Legendary English guitarist John Etheridge brings sensational new vocal star Vimala Rowe to the Vortex for another evening of passion and soul. John will play some of his celebrated solo…

The usual Gypsy Jazz Christmas shindig – led by Dunajska Kapelye (Piotr Jordan & Flora Curzon on violins and Zac Gvirtzman on accordion/clarinet/piano) with some very special guests. Rip-roaring Balkan…

Camilla George saxophone, Sarah Tandy piano Daniel Casimir bass, Femi Koleoso drums WITH SPECIAL GUEST, MOBO-award WINNER ZARA MCFARLANE FOR SOME NUMBERS An exciting quartet showcasing some of London’s finest young players,…

Trumpeter Jay Phelps is at the forefront of the young and creative generation of jazz musicians in the UK, with an instantly recognizable warm and projecting tone. A Vancouver-born Canadian,…

Christmas songs done differently. Led by Orphy Robinson (vibes), and Cleveland Watkiss, who knows where this will lead? We just can be certain that it’ll be fun and challenging.

Mopomoso celebrates the season with the traditional gathering of improvising musicians curated by John Russell. Dependent on the number of participants (in past years there have been 40-50) sets are…

After touring the country over the past few weeks, Led Bib returns for this two-night residency at the Vortex which first hosted them over a decade ago. The band is…

Downstairs special show. Passing through en route to his musical Olympus, we are lucky to have the leading Romanian saxophonist/clarinettist Nicolas Simion, who fuses jazz and Romanian traditional music like…

After touring the country over the past few weeks, Led Bib returns for a two-night residency at the Vortex which first hosted them over a decade ago. The band is…

For the past forty years Evan  Parker has mainly performed free improvised jazz either as a soloist or within a group. He has had extraordinary collaborations with musicians as diverse as…