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. Their…

Improvisation lies at the heart of Vole’s music but framed within compositions reflecting these players’ experience of rock,punk, jazz and more. Roland Ramanan (trumpet) Roberto Sassi (guitar) Ricardo Tijero (alto…

Ian Shaw‘s remarkable vocal range and style have seen him breathe new life into pop tunes and standards; he possesses an unfailing ability to reinvent even the most maudlin showtunes.…

Led by one of our favourite drummers, Mark Fletcher,  Fletch’s Brew makes a rare appearance outside Ronnie Scott’s where they play weekly. The band plays funky jazz originals and also…

A special duo which has been on the cards for several years. It is now going to happen!

World music jazz jam. Jazz and Swing led by the incomparable Piotr Jordan and Zac Gvirtzman with guests (inlcuding Violet Moodswing) You are invited to pay what you can to…

Klaus Bru – Electric C-Saxophones Nikos Ziarkas – Guitar Aleph Aguiar – Guitar Derin Bayhan – Drums “Good songs are elastic!” Take this as the motto for the new project…

A new line-up for bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado With Matthew Herd (alto), Sam Rapley (tenor), James Davison (trumpet), Scott Chapman (drums), Liam Dunachie (piano) “Mullov-Abbado couples a melodic gift with a…

Improvising drummer, Terry Day,  with pianist Veryan Weston, saxophonist Trevor Watts and bassist Dominic Lash. “A class act”

“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…