News: Intersect festival sees Vortex teaming up with Cafe OTO and Servant...
Three minutes and five seconds. The average length of a song played on the radio in the UK. Also, the time it takes to walk, at a fairly leisurely stroll (or, the pace of your average Vortex employee),...
View ArticleLike Watching a Bunch of Clowns – Darren Hayman talks to Vortex about his...
Hackney Marshes, August 2013 Words by Rebekah Robertson I meet Darren Hayman at the table on Hackney Marshes. This local landmark is a sits rather conspicuously in the grasslands just south of the...
View ArticlePaul Hamlyn Foundation supports the Vortex
The Vortex Foundation is delighted to announce that the Paul Hamlyn Foundation has made an award of £40,000 over 2 years to support the Vortex Jazz Club’s management and programming. Tim Ward, Vortex...
View ArticleRave reviews for The Necks, Vortex City Sessions
A special spring installment of the Vortex City Sessions at the Bishopsgate Institute took place on Friday 21st March 2014. Here are what the critics had to say: “Drawing the line from Asian music to...
View ArticleElliot Sharp at the Vortex, April 2014
Elliott Sharp’s Foliage (Vortex, 4 April 2014, night one of 2-night residency; review and drawing by Geoff Winston) Leading light of New York’s downtown music milieu, Elliott Sharp, covered a host of...
View ArticleLed Bib Album Review
Led Bib’s new album The People In Your Neighbourhood (Cuneiform records) received 4 stars from John Fordham in the Guardian today, describing it as their ‘best album yet’. Read the review here And...
View ArticleLed Bib at the Vortex, 3rd May 2014
“The band are celebrating a decade of pushing at the frontiers of British jazz’s abrasive fringe with a new record and a short UK tour which includes this three-day residency at Dalston’s rather bijou...
View ArticleRhythm Sticks Live Album
North London group Rhythm Sticks recorded their live performance at the Vortex back in July, so if you missed the show just download the album here
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Kenny Wheeler 1930-2014
We were fortunate that Kenny played regularly at the club, both in Church Street and in Dalston; and in various formats, up to including big band, as well as with his London quintet, including Chris...
View ArticleMatch & Fuse
The collaboration of the Vortex with Match & Fuse goes back to Match & Fuse earliest days. So it is with great pleasure that we are one of the hosts of Match & Fuse festival in 2014. Their...
View ArticleOli Rockberger, 28 December
Oli Rockberger will be joining the gig by Christine Tobin and Phil Robson on 28 December. Another good reason to come to this gig, as if the duo of Phil and Christine wasn’t enough already.
View ArticleThelonious
Taking inspiration from the Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd School Days band from the early 1960s, Thelonious explore the entire Monk repertoire with both childlike curiosity as well as forensic attention to...
View ArticleReview: Enrico Pieranunzi Trio and Julie Sassoon
On November 15th we had our last of this year’s City Sessions at Bishopsgate Institute. Here’s what All About Jazz had to say: “What is it that makes the Italian pianist’s work so irresistible? One...
View ArticleReview: Evan Parker
High praise from Something Else! for November’s episode of Evan Parker’s monthly Vortex residency: “Evan is genius — and I do not use the word often or lightly — but he is also lucky enough to be able...
View ArticleReview: Philip Catherine & John Etheridge Duo + Igor Gehenot Trio
Sebastian Scotney reviews Philip Catherine & John Etheridge’s show at Vortex on 23rd November 2013 as part of this year’s EFG London Jazz Festival. “The British-born, Belgian-based guitarist’s...
View ArticleReview: Philip Catherine & John Etheridge Duo + Igor Gehenot Trio
Here’s another great review for Philip Catherine & John Etheridge, and Igor Gehenot Trio’s EFG London Jazz Festival gig at Vortex. “By the end the players were enjoying one another’s company so...
View ArticleNews: Intersect festival sees Vortex teaming up with Cafe OTO and Servant...
Three minutes and five seconds. The average length of a song played on the radio in the UK. Also, the time it takes to walk, at a fairly leisurely stroll (or, the pace of your average Vortex employee),...
View ArticleLike Watching a Bunch of Clowns – Darren Hayman talks to Vortex about his...
Hackney Marshes, August 2013 Words by Rebekah Robertson I meet Darren Hayman at the table on Hackney Marshes. This local landmark is a sits rather conspicuously in the grasslands just south of the...
View ArticleChange of programme – Louis Moholo-Moholo
TUESDAY 20TH JANUARY PROGRAMME ALTERATION The concert will now be: LOUIS MOHOLO-MOHOLO QUARTET JASON YARDE – saxes ALEX HAWKINS – piano JOHN EDWARDS –bass LOUIS MOHOLO-MOHOLO – drums This concert is to...
View ArticleGuardian venue review of Vortex
The following was published in the Guardian on 20 January: “The jazz venue that, rich in community spirit, is perfect for the purist but also gracious to the merely curious”...
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