Events

Originally from Leeds but now based in Berlin, singer and saxophonist Emma Coates weaves jazz and folk songwriting to create her unique, intimate sound, taking inspiration from the likes of Snowpoet, This Is The Kit and Joni Mitchell.

Awen Ensemble are an alternative folk-jazz outfit hailing from the North of England with roots that extend across the British Isles. Meaning ‘poetic inspiration’ in Welsh, the name Awen outlines the band’s intention to explore folkloric heritage, landscape and emotional processes through their music. 

Georgia Morgan Turner is a guitarist, composer and artist. Through songwriting she tells stories drawn from a rich inner-world of folklore and mythology.

Airborn is the new project led by flutist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Eddie Parker. A founder member of the acclaimed British jazz orchestra Loose Tubes.

This performance brings together three unique voices from the London jazz scene.

Mopomoso is the UK’s longest running concert series dedicated to freely improvised music!

Part of Finn Carter’s monthly residency at the Vortex showcasing a new project each month. This month he brings a four horn septet featuring some of the UK’s most exciting players.

Noah Ojumu is a London-based jazz drummer and composer whose quintet is defined by rhythmic melodies and dynamic interplay.

The Harry Baker Trio is a dynamic ensemble of the best of the London jazz scene, featuring Oren McLoughlin (drums) and Freddie Jensen (double bass – Emma Rawicz, Joe Farnsworth, Ant Law).

Expect an evening of vibrant originals, timeless jazz standards and groove-based Latin-inspired classics

Doors 7:45 PM, Music 8:30 PM – 2 sets of music   Line-up: James Copus – Trumpet Tom Barford – Saxophone Ivo Neame – Piano Tim Giles – Drum kit […]

Doors 6:45 PM, Music 7:00 PM – 1 set of music   Line-up: Joe Herbert – Guitar Matt Redmond – Saxophone Reuben Goldmark – Piano Toby Yapp – Double bass […]

Singer, songwriter & instrumentalist Fini Bearman presents this very special, one-off night celebrating songwriters working in the spaces between jazz, soul & pop-folk music.

Looking to join a jazz band, meet other musicians and play more jazz? This new workshop at the Vortex is a relaxed, welcoming community for musicians who want to play, learn and develop together.

Bassist, band leader and co-founder of Tomorrow’s Warriors, Gary Crosby OBE teams up with saxophonist Denys Baptiste to celebrate the life and music of the legendary Sonny Rollins.

Doors Open 18:45, Music Starts 19:15 | Ziv Taubenfeld is a bass clarinet player, composer, improviser, based in Lisbon. Born in northern Israel, studied and became part of Amsterdam’s creative music community.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | Xhosa Cole presents two nights of his FreeMonk project celebrating the life and music of legendary composer and pianist Thelonious Monk.

Doors Open 19:45, Music Starts 20:30 | Xhosa Cole presents two nights of his FreeMonk project celebrating the life and music of legendary composer and pianist Thelonious Monk.

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 15:30, Music Starts 16:00 | TDirected by Scott Stroman, the London Jazz Orchestra is a unique big band of top soloists and writers that create new music – and share it, up-close-and-personal, at its monthly Sessions at the Vortex Jazz Club.

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 18:45, Music Starts 19:15 | TLeo Morland is a guitarist and composer from South London, known as an idiosyncratic player and a catalyst for esoteric, intense, and satisfying moments of group improvisation.

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 18:45, Music Starts 19:15 | TDanish guitarist and composer Jascha Briand brings his music to London for a special evening of contemporary jazz. Drawing on his experiences from the European and New York jazz scenes.

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 18:45, Music Starts 19:15 | TBlasus (Welsh: ’tasty/delicious’) are an emerging UK genre bending, alt-folk band based in London and South Wales, led by Welsh vocalist and songwriter Emma Davidson. From their roots at music college in Wales, they showcase a unique, personal sound, celebrating their stylistic diversity.

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.

Attend Orlando’s bass masterclass at the Vortex Jazz Club on October 10 from 2:30-5pm. Only 30 spots available. Through demonstrations with an advanced student and rhythm section, Orlando will explore […]

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.

Looking to join a jazz band, meet other musicians and play more jazz? This new workshop at the Vortex is a relaxed, welcoming community for musicians who want to play, learn and develop together.

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 | Pianist/composer Finn Carter is at once right at the center of the capital’s jazz community, regularly appearing at venues across the UK, and yet simultaneously inhabiting a space of his very own.

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 18:45, Music Starts 19:15 | TMali Sheard is a London based saxophonist and composer highly focused on finding a sense of creativity, expression and freedom within music. Coming through Tomorrows’ Warriors with a strong sense of community and gathering wisdom from mentors including Gary Crosby OBE and Binker Golding.

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: 18:45, Music Starts: 19:15 | Following the release of her debut EP ‘The Birds’ in May, Evelyn will be performing her songs as part of the Downstairs Living Room series for the first time.

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 14:00, Music Starts 14:30 | Mopomoso is the UK’s longest running concert series dedicated to freely improvised 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.

Doors Open 18:45, Music Starts 19:15 | At 12, Louis became the youngest person ever to reach the semi-final of the BBC Young Jazz Musician competition. His early mentors included Byron Wallen and Tony Kofi, with whom he continues to perform from time to time.

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 18:45, Music Starts 19:15 | Album launch for ‘Cascadian Echoes Suite’ on the Earconnector label.

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 18:45, Music Starts 19:15 | This gig marks Martin Pyne’s new release on Discus Music, the double album TRIOS, which focuses on his unique approach to the vibraphone. The album places his playing in the context of two contrasting trio lineups.

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