Events

As part of the UK jazz scene Annie has worked with Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath, John Stevens, Dudu Pukwana, Evan Parker, Paul Dunmall Octet (featuring Keith Tippett and Tony Levin) and Elton Dean’s Newsense.

Following on from the band’s previous sell out shows at the Vortex featuring the music of Art Blakey, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter and Thelonious Monk, they return to present a celebration of another of the all time jazz greats

A weekly session on Sunday evenings, hosted London’s finest – members and musicians go free!

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.

Let Spin are a cutting edge post-jazz quartet comprised of players at the forefront of the vibrant UK contemporary music scene. Their incendiary live shows conjure a mean mix of musical styles with a focus on improvisation for exploring new ground.

Olivia Cuttill, Leeds Conservatoire graduate, APPAG Martin Hummel Award Winner, APPG Best Newcomer Nominee, Presti Music’a Newcomer Of The Year, Peter Whitingham 2024 Award Winner is a London based jazz trumpet player and composer.

After several years pursuing other projects, the quartet co-led by Miguel Gorodi and Sam Braysher reunites for a rare performance exploring the art of the contrafact.

Award winning composer Tom Niblock returns to the Vortex with his big band featuring many young stars and more established names of the London Jazz scene and beyond.

A second outing for this new collaboration between Laura Jurd, James Allsopp and Dave Storey featuring Norwegian special guest Magne Thormodsæter on double bass. The band will be performing compositions by all the members.

Reiss Ellis Beckles will be taking to the bandstand with a new outfit at the Vortex Jazz Club featuring David Berkman.

Expect a powerful soundtrack throughout the night from Bobby Wrongside and Xeeroy, bringing the best in Roots, Culture, Dancehall and Revival.

Doors 2:00 PM About Julia Brüssel (violin), Hannah Marshall (cello) + Phil Wachsmann (violin) and David Leahy (double bass) + Roger Redgate (violin), Kate Ryder (prepared piano) (not necessarily playing in this order)

Presented by NTS & FORM

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.

For 25 years trombonist Dennis Rollins has played at the forefront of the UK jazz, funk and pop as an ‘impossibly’ virtuosic’ sideman to such stars such as Maceo Parker, Courtney Pine and as an award-winning leader in his own right.

Kikimiki is a young jazz fusion band based in London and led by and playing original music by vocalist and flautist Keira Chakraborty. Blending vocal and instrumental styles, with a particular emphasis on vocal harmonies.

DREAMSCAPES is a UK-based post-fusion, nu-jazz ensemble blurring the lines of genre boundaries to create a musical experience of true freedom. Drawing from a wide range of influences such as Radiohead, Björk and Aphex Twin, their sound is immersive and rich in texture.

19-year-old jazz trumpet player, Klara Devlin, was a 2024 BBC Young Jazz Musician finalist, currently studying jazz at the Royal Academy of Music. She began playing trumpet at five and discovered jazz at eight. Her quartet, formed through Tomorrow’s Warriors, performs her original compositions and arrangements inspired by bebop, blues and free jazz.

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/

On this special night, award-winning saxophonist Kasper Rietkerk takes the stage with music from his critically acclaimed album The Happy Worrier, performed by the original recording line-up.

This show has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances – all ticket buyers will be refunded (anyone who bought the bundle ticket with the upstairs show will be refunded the difference) Doors 10:00 PM, Music 10:30 PM – 2 sets of music   Line-up: Tom O’Brien – Piano George Mooney – Saxophone Barney Anderson – […]

John Etheridge’s reputation in the jazz world cannot be overstated. A genuinely virtuosic fusion guitarist, Etheridge is one of a handful of players who can claim to have helped shape the character of modern jazz guitar.

Join a collective of musicians who met through the Vortex jazz club in imagining future standards

A weekly session on Sunday evenings, hosted London’s finest – members and musicians go free!

The duo will be playing music from Sebastian Rochford’s ECM album “A Short Diary” and some new music.

This gathering brings together close collaborators and musical allies of the late drummer Tony Bianco for an evening of performance, remembrance, and shared musical language.

The brainchild of trumpeter and composer Robbie Robson, Dog Soup was briefly part of the Loop Collective, a group of musicians founded in London in 2005.

Bright, punchy, and vibrant, drummer Ananda Brandão presents a fresh set of original music with a new quartet. Blending modern jazz, Brazilian influences, and ambient music.

A special one-off London line-up feature some of the UK’s most exciting Jazz and Folk musicians. Alongside music from previous albums this gig will also preview new material that sees the music moves into a slightly darker, more guitar-driven space, evolving the Scottish Folk-Jazz sound with indie influences.

In their almost two-decade history, the Grammy-nominated band Kneebody has created a genre and style all its own. Their sound is an explosive blend of rock energy and high-level.

Roella Oloro is a multi-instrumentalist and composer originally from Gloucester, UK with Nigerian and Jamaican Heritage. She has performed worldwide and written music in a variety of styles ranging from trio and quartet instrumentation to Jazz and Symphonic orchestra.

Nick has lead his trio with bebop drumming virtuoso Josh Morrison and mainstay of the Uk jazz scene Dave Whitford on double bass for over 5 years. Performing on a weekly basis has given them the unique opportunity to develop a profound chemistry built on a shared love of American jazz tradition and language.

This gig features her both as soloist and especially composer, with a new set of pieces created for the LJO. Only the third player/writer to hold her tenor saxophone “chair”.

A weekly session on Sunday evenings, hosted London’s finest – members and musicians go free!

A proud exponent of the São Paulo scene known for its subversive, alternative music underbelly, Naná Rizinni is a drummer, producer and composer who bridges improvisatory flavours with progressive electronics.

Ed Hogben is a London-based trumpeter exploring uncharted territory with his instrument. Using a MIDI harmoniser, he’s able to play chords in real time – essentially fulfilling the role of piano or guitar in a jazz trio.

The award-winning singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer released her latest highly-lauded album, Za Górami, with ECM Records in 2024, produced by Manfred Eicher, described by Bayerischer Rundfunk as “a model of cliché-free beauty”.

Reuben Goldmark and Andrew Lisle invite Cologne bassist Roger Kintopf for a set of multi-directional free improvisation.

World renowned, Norwegian piano maestro Bugge Wesseltoft, makes his Vortex debut in the company of celebrated British improvising percussionist, Mark Wastell.

Tonight they will be launching the new album inspired by Hungarian composer and pianist Béla Bartók’s Mikrokosmos, which Bruno studied as a child. Bartok composed these books of short pieces as an educational tool to teach his own son at the piano.

“Standards are engaging and accessible for musicians and listeners alike, but nearly all of jazz’s standard repertoire is from a 50 year period ca. 1920 – 1970.

Back in 2019 Filthy Lucre commissioned Byron Wallen to write music for 8 musicians responding to Peter Shenai’s “Hurricane Bells”. Peter is a contemporary artist who has cast 5 bells, whose shapes are modeled on the structure of Hurricane Katrina – the storm that devastated New Orleans in 2005. These cyclonic, irregularly shaped bells produce a tonally complex web of sounds reminiscent of Chinese bells and gongs.

Our monthly series brings together some of the most prominent voices in contemporary songwriting, hosted by Matthew Herd. This month brings the beautiful, personal songs of Yorkshire-based Harry Orme.

A weekly session on Sunday evenings, hosted London’s finest – members and musicians go free!

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.

Eleventh Hour Jazz Orchestra is a new project co-led by bassist Chris Diamand and pianist Lorenzo Bellini. The big band features some of the most promising young stars of the UK and European jazz scenes, with a modern sounds that is rooted in tradition.

The second meeting of this truly unique improvising trio, consisting of Paris-based Chinese traditional music performer and rising contemporary music star Lichin Li on Sheng.

Award-winning pianist and composer Nikki Yeoh presents a new trio with bassist Ewan Hastie and drummer Miranda Radford. Having first crossed paths with Hastie at the BBC Young Jazz Musician competition.

Doors 6:45 PM, Music 7:15 PM – 1 set of music   Line-up: Tara Cunningham – Guitar Caius Williams – Double bass Theo Guttenplan – Drum kit   About: Argia is the trio of Tara Cunningham, Theo Guttenplan, and Caius Williams. They released their self-titled debut album in May of last year, and plan to […]

The Olie Brice Quartet – featuring Rachel Musson, Alexander Hawkins and Will Glaser – play music from their debut album ‘All It Was’. Brice’s most personal album to date – with most of the music written shortly after the death of his father – ‘All It Was’ combines powerful freedom and exploration with memorable melodies.