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 Vortex Jazz Club

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Tuesday 16 April 2024:
James Brandon Lewis Quartet - Transfiguration (1st show) Tuesday 16 April 2024

Tue 16 Apr 2024, 19:30 - Vortex Jazz Club, London
and composer James Brandon Lewis is the musician of the moment in the broad field of contemporary jazz
... . and a promising young talent having listened to the elders by Jazz Legend Sonny Rollins. The... saxophonist has balanced a deep, gospel -informed spirituality with Free-Jazz- abandon and hard-hitting funk

Wednesday 17 April 2024:
Shirley Smart Sextet Wednesday 17 April 2024

Wed 17 Apr 2024, 19:45 - Vortex Jazz Club, London
African and Middle Eastern grooves and jazz.
Drawing on a background of 10 years living in Jerusalem
... and working with the overlapping worlds of jazz, Arabic, Turkish and North African music, Shirley is... Jerusalem, she has established herself firmly on both the jazz and world music scenes and has appeared at... , and Scarborough Jazz Festivals, EFG London Jazz Festival, and Vivacello Festival in Moscow.
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Heinen / Challenger / Heath / Cleasby Wednesday 17 April 2024

Wed 17 Apr 2024, 18:30 - Vortex Jazz Club, London
Doors 6:30 PM, Music 7:30 PM - 1 set(s) of music  
Line-up: Bruno Heinen - Piano
Tom Challenger - Tenor saxophone
Kobe Heath - Double Bass
Will Cleasby - Drums
About Described by the Guardian as "eclectic, eccentric and unobtrusively erudite", Bruno Heinen joins forces with ECM recording artist Tom Challenger to play arrangements of Horace Silver, Bobby Hutcherson and Dorothy A...

Thursday 18 April 2024:
Ronan Guilfoyle’s Bemusement Arcade Thursday 18 April 2024

Thu 18 Apr 2024, 18:30 - Vortex Jazz Club, London
Guilfoyle has been a major figure in Irish jazz for more than thirty years, pushing the envelope of the
... quartet devoted to expanding the rhythmic language of jazz via the tradition of blues, swing and standards... guitarists, and Darren Beckett, the powerhouse Belfast drummer who carved out an international career based
Di-Cysgodion Thursday 18 April 2024

Thu 18 Apr 2024, 19:45 - Vortex Jazz Club, London
a jazz improvisor/composer.
Having previously led projects with no harmony instruments, Huw

Friday 19 April 2024:
Gareth Lockrane Quintet feat. Nick Costley-White, Ivo Neame, Oli Hayhurst and Gene Calderazzo Friday 19 April 2024

Fri 19 Apr 2024, 19:45 - Vortex Jazz Club, London
had a richly diverse life as musician since studying jazz at the Royal Academy of Music in the 1990s
... the junior jazz course at the Royal Academy of Music since 2011 (seeing many astonishing talents pass... instrument which has still not achieved a firm foothold in jazz. If the brilliant playing of Gareth Lockrane... is anything to go by, that state of affairs may change..."
Dave Gelly, The Observer

Saturday 20 April 2024:
Lulu Pierre Quartet Saturday 20 April 2024

Sat 20 Apr 2024, 19:45 - Vortex Jazz Club, London
startling new arrival on the London jazz vocal scene, who has proved herself to be a classic Torch Song
... stylist in the tradition of Julie London. She can also swing out like Sarah Vaughan, with a voice that can... move from a seductive sweetness to a lived-in rasp. After a sold-out show back in October, Lulu Pierre... returns to the Vortex with the experienced piano accompanist Alex Webb and his trio. She will perform

Sunday 21 April 2024:
Mopomoso / April Sunday 21 April 2024

Sun 21 Apr 2024, 14:00 - Vortex Jazz Club, London
Doors 2 PM, Music 2:30 PM  
Mopomoso is the UK’s longest running concert series dedicated to freely improvised music!
We’re delighted that the following wonderful musicians will be playing Mopomoso on Sunday 21st April;
John Butcher (sax), Phil Durrant (mandolin/electronics) & Mark Wastell (percussion)
N.O.Moore (guitar), Dom Lash (bass) & Roger Turner (percussion)
Mike Adcock ...
Vortex Jam Session Sunday 21 April 2024

Sun 21 Apr 2024, 19:45 - Vortex Jazz Club, London
advance!
Our dear Vortex members are also welcome to these sessions free of charge.

Tuesday 23 April 2024:
Royal Academy of Music Free Improv Group Tuesday 23 April 2024

Tue 23 Apr 2024, 19:45 - Vortex Jazz Club, London
Doors 7:45 PM, Music 8:30 PM
Line-up: Moss Freed - Guitar
Chris Williams - Saxophone
Royal Academy of Music Students
About Come and hear the great improvisers of the future share their talent in a programme led by Moss Freed and Academy alumnus Chris Williams. This programme represents the culmination of workshops with this special group of Royal Academy of Music students, connecte






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