Jonathan Geyevu
Jonathan Geyevu is a pianist and composer currently working on the UK’s Club and Electronic music scene. His acoustic solo piano sets bring him instantly back to his roots in […]
Blow the Fuse presents Tomorrow the World: Daphna Sadeh and the Voyagers & Sally Davies and Martina Schwarz
Blow the Fuse presents Tomorrow the World, a series joining established and emerging female musicians. Daphna Sadeh and the Voyagers Daphna Sadeh – Bass, Compositions Stewart Curtis – Clarinets, Flutes, Recorders […]
Enzo Zirilli / Fabio Zeppetella / Ross Stanley
Enzo Zirilli, Ross Stanley and Fabio Zeppetella present music from guitarist Zeppetella’s current release, ‘Handmade’. For this special event at The Vortex, he’s joined by one of the most in […]
Bruno Heinen and Kristian Borring: ‘Postcard to Bill’
Over two nights (the second on May 12th), critically acclaimed pianist Bruno Heinen and guitarist Kristian Borring will be recording their duo album live at the Vortex. The project is […]
Jazz Jam w/ Hannes Riepler
Vortex’s acclaimed Sunday evening Jazz Jam session in the Downstairs bar. From 9 til late, put weekend to bed with a nightcap and some honest-to-goodness jazz, just like in the […]
Mark Sanders / Pat Thomas / Dominic Lash
Pianist Pat Thomas, drummer Mark Sanders and bassist Dominic Lash take an oblique approach to the jazz repertoire, by turns lyrical, dense and sprightly. Their debut album ‘Skip’ (FMR Records) […]
London Jazz Orchestra
Directed by Scott Stroman, the London Jazz Orchestra is “as fine a band as you can find anywhere” (Independent) and these up-close-and-personal sessions showcase great writing and soloing from a band that […]
Lucky Ranku
The great South African guitarist Lucky Ranku has been at the heart of South African music for over 40 years, playing, recording and touring with the likes of Miriam Makeba, […]
Alex Ward Quintet & Sextet
The Alex Ward Quintet features several of the most exciting and distinctive musicians on the current London improvising scene, and was formed in 2013 to perform Alex’s long-form composition “Glass Shelves And […]
Kris Davis Trio: Kris Davis / John Hebert / Tom Rainey
TRIO TRIP : Jazz is dead – oh yeah? The piano trio offers nothing new – what? For connoisseurs and newcomers, a mega monthly series of trios that blow the limits […]
Shatner’s Bassoon & World Sanguine Report
A night of out-there skronky prog/jazz rock from Leeds and London. Shatner’s Bassoon Shatner’s Bassoon are a group of six Leeds based composers/improvisers. Since forming in 2010 they have performed […]
Jazz Jam w/ Hannes Riepler
Vortex’s acclaimed Sunday evening Jazz Jam session in the Downstairs bar. From 9 til late, put weekend to bed with a nightcap and some honest-to-goodness jazz, just like in the […]
Moderately Optimistic Jazz Orchestra (MOJO)
MOJO (Moderately Optimistic Jazz Orchestra) are an exciting 17 piece jazz big band based in north London, made up of great musicians from all over the capital. With a repertoire including […]
Omar Puente / John Etheridge / Gary Crosby
North London’s Cuba Solidarity Campaign presents Omar Puente’s ‘Making Music The Cuban Way’ – a talk. Followed by an evening of jazz with a Cuban spirit. Profits go to the Music Fund for […]
Carol Grimes
An evening with The Singers Tale and The Singer’s songs… Previewing extracts from a book and the songs that also tell the tale. Ford (piano) / Neville Malcolm (bass) / […]
Let Spin + Partikel
Let Spin return to the Vortex to celebrate the release of their debut album. Let Spin Let Spin were formed in a rather fortuitous fashion in June 2012 when another […]
Melange
Formed by jazz and world music cellist Shirley Smart on returning from 10 years in Jerusalem playing and studying the musics of the region, Melange seamlessly blend popular North African rai […]
Christian Wallumrød Ensemble
“Somewhere in the intersecting corridors of jazz, modernist composition, Scando-folk and early church music, there’s a small interior chamber that’s not quite silent, and this is what you’ll find there.” […]
Blue Touch Paper
Colin Towns’ Anglo-German six piece, Blue Touch Paper, released their debut album ‘Stand Well Back’ in 2012, turning heads and prompting ecstatic reviews “…catchy hooks, knotty rhythms and moodscapes…” MOJO. Their […]
Penny Rimbaud and Liam Noble present The Pity of War: the complete war poems of Wilfred Owen
‘THE PITY OF WAR’, the complete war poems of Wilfred Owen recited by Penny Rimbaud with Liam Noble on piano and visuals by Gee Vaucher. In memory not of victory but of […]