” 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. Anita will be…

Liane Carroll is one of the UK’s most outstanding jazz singers. She began her career at the age of 15, and since then has recorded numerous acclaimed albums, headlined at…

Seen regularly as the mainstay of so many bands at the Vortex, it is great to give this guitarist a chance to lead his own group here. His unique composition…

Maybe a new singer for some, but already Jessica has great experience – NYJO, Trinity College of Music (where her tutors included Martin Speake, Brigitte Beraha, Simon Purcell, Nia Lynn…

Alison Rayner bass Buster Birch drums Deirdre Cartwright guitar Diane McLoughlin saxophones Steve Lodder piano ARQ, led by bass player Alison Rayner, play “deliciously upbeat, groovy and thoughtful jazz” (Jazz UK…

Overground Collective A welcome return for a great big band, just getting its new release ready. Paulo Dias Duarte is an award-winning Portuguese composer, based in London since 2003. Paulo’s…

Our monthly ‘loft’ groove night, ably curated by Orphy Robinson and Cleveland Watkiss, continues

The Guildhall Jazz Band is recognised as one of Europe’s top student jazz orchestras. Five-time winner of the BBC Big Band contest, it has performed with Kenny Wheeler, Billy Cobham, Norma Winstone,…

London-born Norma Winstone first attracted attention in the late sixties when she shared the bill at Ronnie Scott’s club with Roland Kirk. Although she began her career singing jazz standards,…

STEVE NOBLE / drums Steve Noble is London’s leading drummer, a fearless and constantly inventive improviser whose super-precise, ultra-propulsive and hyper-detailed playing has galvanized encounters with Derek Bailey, Matthew Shipp,…

Splice image by Emile Holba All human Loop is around. A rare opportunity to have some of the Loop travellers back in London. A Loop Collective night featuring Splice: Splice’s raison…

“Modern, hectic and gleefully bizarre.” (London Jazz).This original group are all composers with influences as far-reaching as Rage Against The Machine, Bill Frisell and Middle Eastern folk music. Expect some…

Phil Robson continues our  Guitar Fest this evening, playing with the Vortex Trio, led by Barry Green on piano with Jeremy Brown (bass) and the unique Gene Calderazzo (drums) Phil is…

Maciek Pysz’s Trio present an exciting programme featuring new music from their latest album. Promises to be an unforgettable evening of world music, jazz and fusion.

The Ben Cox Band were at The Vortex  recently and delighted our customers with songs from Tony Bennett, Sinatra, Neil Young & Joni Mitchell. Since then they have launched their…

Mentored and encouraged over the years by so many of the great and the good, Eartha Kitt, Blossom Dearie, Mark Murphy, Sheila Jordan, Tony Bennett, Gill has built a repertoire…

“Equally acclaimed in straight-ahead jazz settings, progressive rock bands and experimental ambient music, Theo Travis has an international reputation as one of the brightest stars on the contemporary jazz scene”…

All-four was a radical transport scheme in 1930’s New York, aiming to promote co- operation rather than competition between existing modes of public transport. Hailing originally from New York herself, Kay…

Loz Speyer –  Time Zone Loz Speyer – trumpet, flugel Martin Hathaway – alto sax, bass clarinet Stuart Hall – guitar, violin Dave Manington – double bass Andy Ball –…

Ian MacGowan (aka Smith) arrived in London in 1990 from Dublin with two phone numbers in his hand: John Stevens and Derek Bailey. Those were the only two numbers he…

Welcome to the Inaugural Freedom: The Art of Improvisation Festival, Spanning the Clubwise modernist sensibilities of the Westside and the Improv–Central Eastside comes Warriors International’s Freedom: The Art of Improvisation…

A very special show, celebrating the winning of a Parliamentary jazz award for their album ‘Swamp’ on Whirlwind records. “Godfathers of the ferocious UK ‘post-jazz’ groups.” The Times Phil Robson…

The Hidden Notes offers a window into a new and unique sound world. It is a celebration of the saxophone and all the beautiful colours that are hidden just beneath the surface.…

Hailing from Romania, Serbia and the UK, Paprika unites traditional Eastern European, Balkan, Gypsy and classical music, focusing on bringing rare and lost traditional Balkan music back to life.The band…

SONGS TO THE MOONALICE ZAWADZKI: voice, violin With ALEX ROTH (guitar) and ALICE PURTON (cello)Sitting somewhere between the pith and pathos of folkloric music, classical lyricism and spacious jazz, the…

Led by the UK’s leading jazz vocal director, Pete Churchill, Trinity Laban’s Jazz Choir will be joined by a talented band from Trinity Laban’s jazz course for a set of…

A double bill of improvisation and exploration…

Kay Grant (voice) / Ntshuks Bonga (saxophone) duo It sometimes happens that things get pushed to the back of the queue for no other reason than conflicting diaries. This duo…

An exhilarating double-bill will see punk/jazz specialists WorldService Project collide with the raw energy of Schnellertollermeier from Switzerland. Both bands use searing groove-based music to take listeners on a white-knuckle…

JULIAN SIEGEL is an in-demand saxophonist on the European Jazz scene who has worked with many of the top figures in the music. He was awarded the 2007 BBC Jazz…

The master returns with free improvisations for three saxophone/piano duos and a quartet. Featuring Frank Campbell (piano), Julian Argüelles (saxophone), Tony Coe (saxophone), and of course Evan Parker.

Just one year after the death of the great Horace Silver, pianist Basil Hodge leads a tribute to this legend. With Mark Kavuma (trumpet), Ed Jones (sax), Larry Bartley (bass),…

Welcome visit of the South African drum master and his superb Quartet. This line-up has had audiences in raptures since its formation a couple of years ago, and is now gaining…

“Have not poetry and music arisen…..out of the sounds the enchanters made to help their imagination to enchant, to charm, to bind with a spell themselves and the passers by?”…

Two sets of improv from some of our most exciting young performers. Jurd and pianist Eliot Galvin play acoustically, then are joined for a second electric set by guitarist Rob…

Hans Koller (valve trombone), Martin Speake (alto saxophone), Calum Gourlay (bass), Dave Dyson (drums) Taking inspiration from the Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd School Days band from the early 1960s, Thelonious explore the entire Monk repertoire…

“as fine a band as you can find anywhere” (Independent)

Atzmon’s Orient House ensemble tours to promote their new, eighth album, The Whistle Blower.  Gilad is one of the great sax players of our era – Robert Wyatt has described…

Atzmon’s Orient House ensemble tours to promote their new, eighth album, The Whistle Blower.  Gilad is one of the great sax players of our era – Robert Wyatt has described…

A welcome return for one of our most important and iconic musicians of recent years. “A significant reprogramming of the language of the piano”  Penguin Guide To Jazz On CD…

Legendary blues/jazz singer Carol Grimes will be performing songs and free flowing beat poetry excerpts from her new book ‘A Singer’s Tale’. “The Singers Tale weaves its stories, sometimes shady,…