Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | Future Myth is a bold new project from pianist and composer Rick Simpson, bringing together ten of the UK’s most compelling improvisers for an exploration of collective spontaneity and Simpson’s own written material.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | “Sean Payne is an extremely gifted and promising young musician with a tremendously strong command of the Saxophone. Check him out!” – Chris Potter

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | With the Julian Siegel Quartet, the BBC Jazz Award winning saxophonist and composer Julian Siegel can be heard alongside some of this generation’s most distinctive voices, creating an in-demand Quartet on the UK and European Jazz scene.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:15 | weekly session on Sunday evenings, hosted by four of London’s finest: guitarist Nick Costley-White, Trumpeter Sean Gibbs, pianist Rick Simpson and tenor saxophonists and Riley Stone-Lonergan, each one hosting one session on rotation.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | Owen Snider’s music is a contemporary vision of jazz guitar, lyrical and exploratory, grounded in groove and harmonic colour. His compositions and improvisations reveal a deep connection to the post-bop and modern jazz traditions.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | American cornetist Stephen Haynes is an improvisor, organiser, and recording artist. Over the last 45 years he has worked with Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, George Russell, Butch Morris, Rhys Chatham, Gunter Hampel, LaMonte Young, Earle Brown, Tyshawn Sorey, and Adam Rudolph amongst other luminaries at the vanguard of creative music.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | Jay Verma is a London-born South Asian pianist and songwriter, renowned for a rare and distinctive harmonic language that has led to collaborations with Ganavya, SAULT and Unknown T, among others.

Doors Open 19:00, Music Starts 19:30 | “Outstanding” is an overused description but one that’s applied to bassist Orlando le Fleming so consistently that its justification can’t be denied.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:15 | A weekly session on Sunday evenings, hosted by four of London’s finest: guitarist Nick Costley-White, Trumpeter Sean Gibbs, pianist Rick Simpson and tenor saxophonists and Riley Stone-Lonergan, each one hosting one session on rotation.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | The Max Luthert Trio melds the worlds of acoustic, improvised music with electronic instruments. Utilising modular eurorack, the band create soundscapes from live sampling and effects

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | TSebastian Rochford is a singular force in British music, an extraordinary drummer, composer, and producer. His work with the iconic group Polar Bear helped redefine the boundaries of jazz and earned multiple Mercury Prize nominations.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | Shirley Smart’s Sextet draws on a background of 10 years living in Jerusalem and working with the overlapping worlds of jazz, Arabic, Turkish and North African music.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | “Spencer is one of the great talents of the British jazz scene drawing a high level of recognition. Listen to Spencer’s genius” – InMusic(DE)

Few artists have blended jazz, soul and R&B with the grace and emotional honesty of Randy Crawford. From the soaring One Day I’ll Fly Away to the unmistakable groove of Street Life, her music remains as compelling today as when it was first recorded.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | We’re thrilled to welcome the Alistair Martin Quintet, featuring special guest Tom Smith, for an evening celebrating the centenary of the birth of the “Prince of Darkness”, Miles Davis.

Somatiqi performs original compositions from the upcoming album “Ramsey’s Theory”, exploring the dissonance between technology and the social sphere through jazz improvisation with live electronics

This new project is a tribute to Lacy inspired by Koller’s ongoing musical partnership with Tony Kofi and Noah Ojumu, working on the music of Thelonious Monk.

European premiere: A transatlantic quartet wires the Mediterranean improv scene to the New York underground.

Timings: *Please note each ticket will give you access to the time slot you book for. Please arrive for the door time. 1st Show Doors 7:30 PM, Music 8:00 PM…

Award-winning saxophonist, conductor, and composer Josephine Davies brings her magnificent 17-piece big band back to the Vortex Jazz Club for an exclusive sneak peek into her next major project.

Rob Luft, recently crowned ‘Instrumentalist of the Year’ at the 2025 Parliamentary Jazz Awards, is undeniably one of the most exciting jazz guitarists in Europe of his generation.

Edlund’s upcoming debut album, Virgin Forest, features the extraordinary musical minds of Laura Jurd, Ruth Goller and Elliot Galvin. The album is a collection of letters to our younger and older selves, reflecting upon the synergy between how we treat the home we have in nature and the one we carry within.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | Drummer Jochen Rueckert presents his new New York City Quartet – a band of standout young musicians, challenging him to keep up while championing the next generation.

A very welcomed return to the Vortex for the exciting electric guitar and drums collaboration between Thurston Moore and Mark Wastell.

Comprising four long-term collaborators and friends (thus the ‘family’ tag), the band takes as its starting point the freewheeling music of those musicians who, back in the 1960s, were at the forefront of the free jazz revolution.