Longestablished In North London for over 20 years, the club is a beacon for contemporary jazz in the capital. With seven evening performances a week The Vortex programmes cuttingedge jazz alongside contemporary folk and world music. While it places a strong emphasis on, and provides support for, young local talent, it also regularly features leading worldclass artists, both from the UK and overseas – for example – from the UK, Stan Tracey, Tony Kofi, Evan Parker, Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine, Mercury Music Prize Nominated Polar Bear and Zoe Rahmann, pianists John Taylor and Gwilym Simcock and awardwinning saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock. From abroad, the club has connections with New York downtown scene musicians such as Tim Berne and Claudia Quintet, as well as European groups such as [em], radio.string.quartet, Lotte Anker and Wolfgang Muthspiel. There is something to appeal to all musical tastes: straightahead, bigband, contemporary, piano trio, vocal, freeimpro, worldmusic, GypsyEast European and folkorientated...

Address: The Vortex Jazz Club 11 Gillett Square London N16 8JH
Telephone: 020 7254 4097
Website: http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/