Events

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)

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:15 | TA 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 | 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.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | 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

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | Zoe Francis vocals, met multi award-winning guitarist Jim Mullen in 2013, they have recorded and toured 4 albums together, including album "The Very Thought of You" recorded live at 606 club.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | 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.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | European premiere: A transatlantic quartet wires the Mediterranean improv scene to the New York underground.

*Please note each ticket will give you access to the time slot you book for. Please arrive for the door time. Duo featuring two groundbreaking pioneers from the New York avant-garde.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | 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.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | 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.

Celebrate the release of the new album from drummer/composer drunkard Jeff “Tain” Watts, inspired by results of the pandemic, from sociopolitical conditions to salutes to the fallen, it should be released by this special Halloween date. Masks encouraged. DJ set will be led by Chris Philips - an award-winning radio presenter, sharing jazz and other musics for 40 years on London radio.

Directed by Scott Stroman, the London Jazz Orchestra is a unique big band of top soloists and writers that create new music

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:15 | TA 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.

The London Ambient Orchestra is a community of artists and individuals of diverse musical backgrounds. From conservatoire trained classical musicians to self taught avant-garde street performers, brought together by a love of sound and exploration in stillness and expression

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | 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 22:30, Music Starts 23:15 | Drummer Jochen Rueckert presents his new New York City Quartet – a band of standout young musicians, decades his junior, challenging him to keep up while championing the next generation.

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.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | London-based saxophonist Leo Richardson returns to The Vortex to present his high-octane quartet performing entirely original music, firmly grounded in contemporary hard bop.

Two shows: Doors Open 19:00 OR 21:30 | A very welcomed return to the Vortex for the exciting electric guitar and drums collaboration between Thurston Moore and Mark Wastell.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | ONe_Orchestra New work in large-group improvisation to free themselves and their listeners from the default assumptions built up through the centuries-long predominance of cis men in music... This improvising orchestra's work opens up novel, important, and fascinating new forms, relations, AND sounds.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | 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.