A weekly session on Sunday evenings, hosted by four of London’s finest: drummer Jas Kayser, pianist Rick Simpson and tenor saxophonists Helena Kay and Riley Stone-Lonergan, each one hosting one session on rotation.
Tony Kofi and Alina Bzhezhinska bring you poems from the other side, drawing inspiration to play some original music and classic jazz composers on poems from some of the greatest poets.
Scottish songwriter, composer, and saxophonist Matthew Herd writes for and performs with Seafarers, a band that unites some of the most prominent voices in folk and improvised music (Lauren Kinsella, Tom McCredie, Tom Taylor & Dave Hamblett)
Award winning Electric Jazz harpist and composer Maria-Christina Harper (Katie Melua, Ala.ni) is joined by winner of the 2019 Parliamentary jazz awards saxophonist Josephine Davies and Eric Clapton’s collaborator, drummer Evan Jenkins to produce a dynamic project
Bassist Michelangelo Scandroglio, barely twenty years old, is already considered one of the most interesting promises of Italian jazz. Tonight, he presents music from his first album in a quintet format feat. Alex Hitchcock (tenor sax), Paolo Petrecca (trumpet), Fergus Mccreadie (piano) and Mattia Galeotti (drums)
Final date of the Upper Austrian Jazz Orchestra UK tour, playing the music of British composer Ed Puddick.
Welcoming and relaxed, come for a drink, sit back and enjoy the music, or bring your horns, sticks and strings to join in during the second set.
Ari Hoenig is a ground-breaking drummer, composer and educator who has become one of the most significant and influential voices in the jazz and drumming world over the last two decades.
Ari Hoenig is a ground-breaking drummer, composer and educator who has become one of the most significant and influential voices in the jazz and drumming world over the last two decades.
Kavuma’s Quartet (Mark Kavuma – trumpet; Noah Stoneman – piano; Caius Williams – bass; Jack Thomas – drums) has developed and nourished a truly unique and unmistakable sound with their stylish spin on the jazz genre soaked in soul and engrossing grooves.
Multi-award-winning vocalist Christine Tobin sings with two of the U.K.’s leading jazz musicians; pianist Liam Noble & guitarist Phil Robson who are both long-term musical collaborators. The repertoire of ‘Outside The Box’ will include songs from Christine’s highly acclaimed albums alongside a selection of new originals from all three performers and more.
One of Ireland’s improvising masters joins the incomparable pairing of John Edwards and Mark Sanders after a seven-year hiatus.
“This is the first time Geoff and I have played duo: we talked about it a lot. He’s a master of song form improvisation, and I’m excited about trying to keep up! We are also recording the gig for future release, so please come down and have your rapturous applause captured for posterity! ” Liam Noble
Welcoming and relaxed, come for a drink, sit back and enjoy the music, or bring your horns, sticks and strings to join in during the second set.
Jazz seems to be a music where there is a great deal of integration across the generations. Why is this awareness and respect? Is this correct? And if so, why?…
A weekly session on Sunday evenings, hosted by four of London’s finest: drummer Jas Kayser, pianist Rick Simpson and tenor saxophonists Helena Kay and Riley Stone-Lonergan, each one hosting one session on rotation.
Emerging out of the popular Vortex downstairs jams, this new sextet presents a selection of lesser-known, more recent jazz standards
Another wonderful Mopomoso Sunday afternoon feat. NUNC (David Leahy & Paloma Carrasco Lopez), Henry McPherson, Petra Haller, Paul Jolly & Charlotte Keeffe
The Christoph Irniger Trio celebrates melody without once degenerating into the trivial. They are tone poems which demonstrate that accessible melodies and complex tonal worlds need not be mutually exclusive and can in fact make sense of each other.
Come down for a drink downstairs with performances from a rotating group of London-based singers and instrumentalists. Arrive early if you’d also like to join in for when the sets…
Award winning saxophonist and composer Josephine Davies brings her 17 piece jazz orchestra to the Vortex for the second time. Tonight’s concert will feature her new suite ‘Ascension’, a series of 8 pieces representing the 8 parts of the Celtic Wheel of the Year, bringing a much needed celebration of nature, connection, and renewal to our fragmented times.
Alex Bonney’s quartet plays original compositions with plenty of room for group improvisation.
A new composition by Johnny Hunter which is constructed to get the most amount of music from the least amount of information. Written specifically to use the outstanding improvising skills of these musicians
Celebrating ten years of work, the all-star collective trio Thumbscrew celebrates by adding new instrumental hues to their already well-established sound on Multicolored Midnight, the group’s seventh album
Celebrating ten years of work, the all-star collective trio Thumbscrew celebrates by adding new instrumental hues to their already well-established sound on Multicolored Midnight, the group’s seventh album
We hear a lot, especially now, about jazz musicians who have done things which are morally reprehensible despite fantastic music. Often these are to do with attitudes to women. As…
A weekly session on Sunday evenings, hosted by four of London’s finest: drummer Jas Kayser, pianist Rick Simpson and tenor saxophonists Helena Kay and Riley Stone-Lonergan, each one hosting one session on rotation.
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.
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.
Active since 2011, Dugong are a unique proposition on the European jazz scene.
Tara Minton is an Australian born harpist, vocalist and composer. Tonight’s performance will feature contemporary works and arrangements from Tara and special guest Emma Rawicz’s past recordings, as well as new compositions.
Sam Leak’s trio, featuring bassist Simon Read and drummer Will Glaser, perform contemporary jazz with a gospel-tinged, and folk-inspired, freedom and abandon, invoking the joy and emotion typified by Paul Bley and Keith Jarrett’s 1960s trios.
Combining jazz tradition with songs Maria grew up singing in her childhood Slovak folklore group, TOPOĽANA is a jazz folk fusion sextet packed with some of the freshest young talent on the London jazz scene.
How is one creative? Is it taught, or come through playing or self-discovery? Creativity is a crucial element of good jazz, so let’s think why. These online discussions have been…
A weekly session on Sunday evenings, hosted by four of London’s finest: drummer Jas Kayser, pianist Rick Simpson and tenor saxophonists Helena Kay and Riley Stone-Lonergan, each one hosting one session on rotation.
The London Jazz Orchestra open their new season of monthly Second Sunday gigs by celebrating pianist John Taylor’s 80th birthday.
Dreamers is the new project from British saxophonist and composer Mark Lockheart featuring Elliot Galvin (Dinosaur, Elliot Galvin Trio), Tom Herbert (Polar Bear, The Invisible) and Dave Smith (Robert Plant).
Come down for a drink downstairs with performances from a rotating group of London-based singers and instrumentalists. Arrive early if you’d also like to join in for when the sets…
Over the past few years Alyson Cawley and Martin Speake have been collaborating closely together on diverse projects ranging from exploring South Indian music to Charlie Parker to free improvisation.
Three of the most exciting improvisers in the country, in an ongoing trio that ranges from fiery, propulsive free jazz to the most detailed explorations of sound and texture.
A double bill featuring two new projects: IOMOON feat. bassist Ruth Goller and drummer/keyboard player Emanuele Maniscalco + PANDO PANDO feat. Alex Bonney (electronics) + Will Glaser and Jem Doulton on drums.
Welcoming and relaxed, come for a drink, sit back and enjoy the music, or bring your horns, sticks and strings to join in during the second set.
Our weekly online discussion has now been going since March 2020. It covers a wide range of topics – some more philosophical, some more political, some more purely musical. It…
A weekly session on Sunday evenings, hosted by four of London’s finest: drummer Jas Kayser, pianist Rick Simpson and tenor saxophonists Helena Kay and Riley Stone-Lonergan, each one hosting one session on rotation.
An afternoon mixing of standards, as well as a touch of French, South African and Latin sounds.
High energy and intense free improvisations from this new group.
London-based saxophonist and Dankworth Prize-winning composer Matt Anderson presents his third album, “The Town and the City” with his quartet composed of Alberto Palau (piano), Will Harris (double bass) and Jay Davis (drums).
Orlando will be premiering brand new music for this band in his September residency at the Vortex.
From the pen of this prolific and prodigious creative comes Airborn, a suite of related pieces featuring the mighty talents of virtuoso guitarist Rob Luft.
An imaginative reworking of some of Duke Ellington’s iconic compositions, from the early Cotton Club blues material to Swing hits and through to the exotica that was inspired by Ellington’s extensive travels.