The Vortex Jazz Club, 11 Gillett Square, London N16 8AZ | Bookings 020 7254 4097 | Email Info at Vortex

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Musicians enquiring about gigs at the Vortex please see the musicians page for contact details.

The Vortex Jazz Club gratefully acknowledges financial support from the PRS for Music Foundation.

The Vortex is a member of the Europe Jazz Network

The Vortex Jazz Club

The world-renowed jazz club in Dalston, North London

Programme

For full details and online booking see the programme page.

Established In North London for over 20 years, the club is a beacon for contemporary jazz in the capital.

With seven evening performances a week the Vortex programmes cutting-edge jazz alongside contemporary folk and world music.

While it places a strong emphasis on, and provides support for, young local talent, it also regularly features leading world-class artists, both from the UK and overseas – for example – from the UK, Stan Tracey, Tony Kofi, Evan Parker, Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine, Mercury Music Prize Nominated Polar Bear and Zoe Rahmann, John Taylor and Gwilym Simcock and award-winning saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock.

From abroad, the club has connections with New York downtown scene musicians such as Tim Berne and Claudia Quintet, as well as European groups such as [em], radio.string.quartet, Lotte Anker and Wolfgang Muthspiel.

There is something to appeal to all musical tastes: straightahead, big-band, contemporary, piano trio, vocal, free-impro, world-music, Gypsy/East European and folk-orientated...

'Guest' nights at The Vortex have included:

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Vortex podcast

The Vortex is delighted to launch a new monthly podcast featuring the best of the forthcoming month's programme. We provide a platform for the artists themselves to discuss and evaluate the creative impetus behind their music. Samples of their work and a monthly gig guide also feature.

Vortex podcast (link to external site)

 

History of The Vortex

 How the club began in Stoke Newington.

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Exploring Routes in Jazz

Exploring Routes in Jazz was an innovative summer project for young people aged 13–18 who worked with professional jazz musicians.

Nine talented young people participated in an intensive week of vocal and instrumental workshops at the Vortex and performed at the club on Friday 7th August.

See Exploring Routes in Jazz

Gillett Square

Formally launched in November 2006, Gillett Square is London's newest town square and the first of a promised hundred new town squares across the capital. Housing Dalston Culture House, The Bradbury Street Workspace, small retail units and a small car park, it is a vibrant urban area.

Dalston Culture House

The Vortex Jazz Club is housed in Dalston Culture House, a stunning four-storey cultural and arts workspace designed by Hawkins/Brown architects.

 See the Gillett Square website.

 

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