Introducing “Vortex recommends…” Each month, we ask the artists programmed at the club to share what they’ve been listening to/music they really love.    Upper Austrian Jazz Orchestra’s picks: “I’ll See […]

Oliver Weindling writes: It’s very sad for all in the jazz world to hear about the death of Brian Blain. In reaching the venerable age of 92, he had been […]

The Vortex Jazz Festival is part of  Hackney Council’s “Hello Again Hackney” programme   Welcome to the feed the Soul Vortex Jazz Club Festival 2022 page!   It’s been a […]

Ray was a true genius and one of those performers whom we were so delighted to welcome to the Vortex. As a genius on the saxophone is indisputable. But also […]

Update – 28/06/2022 We are very pleased to announce that we will be reopening our main space from Thursday 30 June. There are still some additional works due to take […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]