Vortex Refurb Work – April/May 2022
Update – 03/05/2022 Due to an accidental flooding, we sadly won’t be ready to reopen our upstairs doors from tomorrow as originally planned. It will probably take us a few […]
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Sound Engineer Training, February 2022
The Vortex Jazz Club is arranging an introductory course for six would-be sound engineers, starting in February. It would involve 4 days of instruction by our lead sound engineer Louis Huddle, as […]
Jazz for the planet
We are happy to show a concert recorded by Tällberg Foundation with a stellar line-up including Joe Lovano. Watch and enjoy. Jazz defies convention through adaptability and improvisation, generating that […]
Supporting Cuban musicians
Income from two releases on Loz Speyer’s Spherical Records label will go directly to help musicians in Santiago de Cuba. https://spherical-records.bandcamp.com/album/roots-en-route-raices-en-viaje https://spherical-records.bandcamp.com/album/clave-sin-embargo This is because, as a result of the […]
Charlie Watts – Vortex Foundation patron
Oliver Weindling writes: Charlie Watts was a jazz drummer at heart. Apparently, he only started as a drummer with R&B band The Rolling Stones to fill in only until something […]
“Freedom day”: a message from the Vortex management
Although the government is lifting Covid restrictions from Monday 19th July, the Vortex is taking a gradual approach to re-opening. Like everyone else we want to get back to business-as-normal […]
Brian Bointon
Brian was a volunteer and a night manager at the Vortex for several years. Very thoughtful and always encouraging. We knew that he had taught at London Met and was […]
Words and Art
Since April 2020, Nicki Heinen has been organising monthly Words and Art online. Poetry from Nicki and special guests, with art created simultaneously by Aurelie Freoua. Here is some of […]
Sonia Slany 1965-2021
It was our good fortune at the Vortex, and mine too, to meet Sonia Slany, who died recently, initially through Paul Clarvis. A calming influence on the exuberant? Perhaps she […]
John Russell 1954-2021
Oliver Weindling pays tribute to John Russell For more than a decade, John Russell’s Mopomoso have been stalwarts of the Vortex. Curated on shoestring (as he frequently reminded one), every […]
Echo in the Bones; Review by Kevin Le Gendre
Echo In The Bones (composer: Renell Shaw, producer: Kathianne Hingwan) At the height of lockdown this summer, in the brave new world of zoom and remote recording, Renell Shaw’s […]
The Vortex Is Now Closed to the Public
Given the restrictions on music venues imposed as part of the new national lockdown, the Vortex will not be able to continue with live performances at the club in front […]
Culture Recovery Fund Outcome
The Vortex Jazz Club is both delighted and relieved to have been awarded a grant from the Culture Recovery Fund administered by the Arts Council England on behalf of the […]
New Vortex Jazz Club Limited Covid-19 Risk Assessment and Risk Management Plan (Updated December 2021)
New Vortex Jazz Club Limited Covid-19 Risk Assessment and Risk Management Plan (Updated December 2021) The Vortex is committed to taking all reasonable steps to provide a Covid-safe environment. Following […]
Vortex jazz podcasts – interviews with promoters
We are happy to announce the start of Vortex podcasts. Oliver Weindling has informal conversations with people who organise and are involved behind the scenes in the jazz world. The […]
REVIEW: The Windrush Suite – Renell Shaw by AJ Dehany
Windrush Day marks the historic voyage of 492 West Indians on the HMT Empire Windrush arriving at the Port of Tilbury in Essex on 22 June 1948. It honours […]
Keith Tippett 1947-2020
Oliver Weindling writes: One of the great privileges of involvement at the Vortex is that one gets to know some of the great musicians. And Keith was no exception. Gigs […]
Donated: Two Poems by Penny Rimbaud
Little Notes on Crisis Karma Where darkness falls, are we to turn off the inner light and shuffle into sleep? Life cares only for itself, resolute and whole. Get out […]
Don Weller 1940-2020
Don Weller was one of a cohort of British saxophonists who were mainstays of the Vortex in its early days in the 1990s. Don, Alan Skidmore, Bobby Wellins as well […]