{"title": "London Jazz Orchestra Vortex Sessions: The Pianists of the LJO", "start": "2026-11-01T15:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T18:00:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "Standard £15 / Vortex Members £10 / Students & UC beneficiaries £8", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.universe.com/events/london-jazz-orchestra-vortex-sessions-the-pianists-of-the-ljo-tickets-MYR2L9?ref=website", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/big-band"], "description": "London Jazz Orchestra Vortex Sessions: The Pianists of the LJO is a jazz concert at the Vortex Club's monthly session. The London Jazz Orchestra, a unique big band of top soloists and writers directed by Scott Stroman, performs new music up-close-and-personal. This session features John Taylor, Pete Saberton, Nikki Iles and Alcyona Mick, the four pianists who have held the keyboard chair in the band, all original voices as players and writers. Their compositions and arrangements of their music by other band members are showcased.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/london-jazz-orchestra-vortex-sessions-the-pianists-of-the-lj-40186/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/london-jazz-orchestra-vortex-sessions-the-pianists-of-the-ljo/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c551b6677145fef5543d99646d56709841854f3f287624bc92210304919f3f49-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-01T15:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T18:00:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Vortex Jam Session", "start": "2026-11-01T19:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T22:30:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "Standard £6 / Free entry for Vortex members & participating musicians", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.universe.com/events/vortex-jam-session-tickets-CY2605", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "Vortex Jam Session is a weekly Sunday-evening jam session at Vortex Jazz Club, where the house band is joined by visiting instrumentalists. It is hosted in rotation by four of London's finest musicians: guitarist Nick Costley-White, trumpeter Sean Gibbs, pianist Rick Simpson and tenor saxophonist Riley Stone-Lonergan. Instrumentalists who plan to play with the house band can attend for free, with no need to book in advance, and Vortex members also enter free of charge. The house band for this session is yet to be confirmed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/vortex-jam-session-40176/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/vortex-jam-session-10-2026-09-06-2026-09-13/2026-10-25/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/33c3df52a2b153c5d511b2c9bb01a19d91f0cdb2b52abc2ae3641302b7f8ff00-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Mark Lasis Quintet", "start": "2026-11-04T18:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:15:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "Standard £12.50 / Vortex Members £6.25 / Students & UC beneficiaries £5", "price_from": "12.50", "price_to": "12.50", "tickets_url": "https://www.universe.com/events/mark-lasis-quintet-downstairs-tickets-D3R4CQ", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "Mark Lasis Quintet play one set of music at the Vortex Jazz Club. London-based accordionist and composer Mark Lasis leads the quintet, with solly chappell on guitar, Artis Aleksejevs on drum kit, Alex Sibley on alto saxophone and Will Ewins on bass guitar. They perform original compositions inspired by the sounds of 70s fusion paired with Lasis's roots as a classical musician. Lasis, who studies at the Royal Academy of Music, aims to show the accordion's versatility in contemporary music.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mark-lasis-quintet-40189/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/mark-lasis-quintet/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3e18562adc7d4c381c08f0eb66a1066a9b83261e1bc82e2fdba58dfe8bb153ed-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Leo Richardson Quartet", "start": "2026-11-07T19:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T22:30:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "Standard £17.50 / Vortex Members £15 / Students & UC beneficiaries £12.5", "price_from": "17.50", "price_to": "17.50", "tickets_url": "https://www.universe.com/events/leo-richardson-quartet-tickets-RKHS1W?ref=website", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/hard-bop"], "description": "The Leo Richardson Quartet plays a night of jazz at Vortex Jazz Club, a gig venue in Dalston's Gillett Square. The London-based saxophonist Leo Richardson leads a quartet with Rick Simpson on piano, Dave Whitford on double bass and Joel Waters on drums, performing two sets of entirely original music. Their sound is grounded in contemporary hard bop, inspired by the hard bop and post-bop era with strong melodies, exciting interplay and a modern edge. The band plays material gearing up to their next album recording, following acclaimed releases 'The Chase' and 'Move'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/leo-richardson-quartet-40196/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/leo-richardson-quartet-6/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a92aa88858a2c6b0503f1c55b0fdd49c9430854f1a4146459b0df0aa4866b90d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Vortex Lates: Jochen Rueckert Quartet plays Jazz Classics", "start": "2026-11-05T22:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T00:15:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "Standard £12 / Vortex Members £10 / Students & UC beneficiaries £10", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.universe.com/events/vortex-lates-jochen-rueckert-quartet-plays-jazz-classics-tickets-L402PY?ref=website", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "A late-night jazz concert at the Vortex Jazz Club, with drummer Jochen Rueckert leading his new New York City Quartet through one set of music. The band brings together standout young musicians – Kevin Sun on tenor saxophone, Alexandra Ridout on trumpet and Hamish Smith on double bass – decades Rueckert's junior, championing the next generation. Rueckert, known from the Kurt Rosenwinkel Quartet and Sam Yahel Trio and whose earlier quartet toured internationally for over 15 years, sees the group release its debut album \"How to Survive a Beheading\", his seventh as a bandleader.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/vortex-lates-jochen-rueckert-quartet-plays-jazz-classics-40193/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/vortex-lates-jochen-rueckert-quartet-plays-jazz-classics/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a4b05ff867af07000d23456439f73ac5959fb0412c04b18de259f875e1d03297-1200.webp"}, {"title": "London Ambient Orchestra Presents: An Evening of Improvised Music and Sonic Exploration", "start": "2026-11-03T19:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T22:30:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "General Admission £17.50", "price_from": "17.50", "price_to": "17.50", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-london-ambient-orchestra-tickets-2002421727290?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/contemporary-classical"], "description": "London Ambient Orchestra Presents: An Evening of Improvised Music and Sonic Exploration is a large-ensemble concert of orchestral improvisation rooted in stillness and sound exploration. The London Ambient Orchestra brings together conservatoire-trained contemporary classical players and avant-garde improvisers from diverse backgrounds, creating an improvisational language that defies traditional thinking of what an orchestra can be. The fourteen musicians perform dreamy sound worlds reminiscent of ambient pioneers like Brian Eno, alongside Pauline Oliveros-like sound meditations, minimalism and raucous free improvisation. The lineup spans flutes, harp, clarinets, saxophone, trombone, strings, live effects processing, piano, double bass and percussion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/london-ambient-orchestra-presents-an-evening-of-improvised-m-40188/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/london-ambient-orchestra-presents-an-evening-of-improvised-music-and-sonic-exploration/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8ff7dd774fd07f9a912ce91247bf9524b4484602c6148fafde9574c4ea80816a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rob Luft Quartet", "start": "2026-10-30T19:45:00Z", "end": "2026-10-30T22:30:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "Standard £20 / Vortex Members £18 / Students & UC beneficiaries £16", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.universe.com/events/rob-luft-quartet-tickets-8KQM3Z?ref=website", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "An evening of live jazz at the Vortex, a club in London's Gillett Square, with two sets by the Rob Luft Quartet. The quartet features Rob Luft on guitar, Joe Wright on tenor saxophone, Tom McCredie on bass and Corrie Dick on drums. Luft, a London-born guitarist named 'Instrumentalist of the Year' at the 2025 Parliamentary Jazz Awards, is counted among the most exciting jazz guitarists of his generation in Europe, with comparisons to Bill Frisell, John Abercrombie and Pat Metheny. His albums 'Riser' (2017) and 'Dahab Days' (2023) appeared on Edition Records, and he has collaborated with artists such as Elina Duni, John Surman and Anders Jormin on ECM Records.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rob-luft-quartet-40183/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/rob-luft-quartet-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dde36f17d4b78d59318afb70f71a646361e8b00cde81b4820c20fa516a8bda06-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Bonney / Brice / Crowley / Giles", "start": "2026-11-11T18:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T20:15:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "Standard £12.50 / Vortex Members £6.25 / Students & UC beneficiaries £5", "price_from": "12.50", "price_to": "12.50", "tickets_url": "https://www.universe.com/events/bonney-brice-crowley-giles-downstairs-tickets-28WBPD?ref=website", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/free-jazz"], "description": "A jazz concert at Vortex Jazz Club in Dalston's Gillett Square, featuring one set of free jazz music. The performers are a British quartet: Alex Bonney on trumpet, Olie Brice on double bass, George Crowley on tenor saxophone and Tim Giles on drum kit. They play legendary free jazz repertoire by figures such as Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Albert Ayler and Paul Motian. Doors open before the music begins.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/bonney-brice-crowley-giles-40199/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/bonney-brice-crowley-giles/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4bdf63bec336549199e2fa15aeeec4b79bd00d23df71c105084847cd74cefe58-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Colin Webster / Matthew Grigg / Caius Williams / Fabian Neubauer", "start": "2026-11-06T18:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T20:15:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "Standard £12.50 / Vortex Members £6.25 / Students & UC beneficiaries £5", "price_from": "12.50", "price_to": "12.50", "tickets_url": "https://www.universe.com/events/colin-webster-matthew-grigg-caius-williams-fabian-neubauer-downstairs-tickets-N3TZM8?ref=website", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/improvisation"], "description": "An improvised music concert at the Vortex Jazz Club, a mixed seated and standing venue on Gillett Square, with one set of music. The line-up is a brand new quartet of highly regarded British and European improvisors: Colin Webster on alto saxophone, Matthew Grigg on guitar, Caius Williams on double bass and Fabian Neubauer on drum kit. Webster and Williams are two of London's most prolific improvisors, working with many key figures in experimental music, while Grigg is an exciting guitarist from Bristol creating his own language and style, and Neubauer, a Wuppertal-based multi-instrumentalist, combines electronics and acoustic drums.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/colin-webster-matthew-grigg-caius-williams-fabian-neubauer-40194/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/colin-webster-matthew-grigg-caius-williams-fabian-neubauer/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6981c06e2c5e869ac1cae7886b55daf889765921362ceb6171a92df1b13f1d65-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Speyer's Space Trio", "start": "2026-11-05T18:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T20:15:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "Standard £12.50 / Vortex Members £6.25 / Students & UC beneficiaries £5", "price_from": "12.50", "price_to": "12.50", "tickets_url": "https://www.universe.com/events/loz-speyers-space-trio-downstairs-tickets-YF6WZK?ref=website", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/free-jazz"], "description": "SPACE TRIO is a jazz trio playing one set of live music at the Vortex, working in the open territory between jazz and free improvisation. Trumpeter Loz Speyer leads the group with Josh Vadiveloo on double bass and Andrew Lisle on drum kit, all three Hackney-based musicians. The trio performs Speyer's own compositions alongside pieces by free jazz masters such as Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and Johnny Dyani, and by Speyer's former colleague Tony Bianco. SPACE TRIO grew out of Speyer and Lisle's work together in improvisational projects and continues his many years of exploring the trumpet-bass-drums format.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/speyers-space-trio-40191/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/loz-speyers-space-trio/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6d923e82ed9f5a689826db334c23a3a17ea0a669f58a014a85e3cf8ec2c96ae4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "North London Jazz Collective", "start": "2026-11-03T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Green Note", "address": "Parkway 106, NW1 7AN London", "price": "£ 14.00", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://wegottickets.com/f/28135#tickets", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "North London Jazz Collective returns to Green Note for a special gig, continuing their collaboration with gifted fellow travellers from overseas. Co-founder, London drummer Robbie Ellison, teams up with NYC-based double bass titan Paul Sikivie, fresh from Samara Joy's band, and former London resident Ofer Landsberg, a world-class guitarist who has shared the bandstand with bebop giants such as Frank Hewitt and Jimmy Lovelace. Expect swinging grooves, pretty chords, elegant melodies and big vibes. The collective brings together some of the UK's finest jazz musicians, spanning swing, bebop, trad, manouche, fusion and contemporary jazz.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/north-london-jazz-collective-76550/", "official_url": "https://www.greennote.co.uk/production/north-london-jazz-collective/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5dff6f5593138caca302c201210fd9c5f7878d9a6a7a665305b8afb9a95f4cc5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Family Band", "start": "2026-11-11T19:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T22:30:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "Standard £15 / Vortex Members £7.5 / Students & UC beneficiaries £6.25", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.universe.com/events/family-band-tickets-CTJH53?ref=website", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/free-jazz"], "description": "A jazz evening with Family Band playing two sets at Vortex Jazz Club. The quartet unites four long-term collaborators and friends: Kim Macari on trumpet, Riley Stone-Lonergan on tenor saxophone, Tom Rivière on double bass and Steve Hanley on drum kit. Their starting point is the freewheeling music of the musicians at the forefront of the 1960s free jazz revolution, whose opening up of jazz's constraints is now seen as an integral part of the music's development. Rather than recreating the work of Ornette Coleman and others, the band shares its powerful momentum, combining fierce intensity, introspection and the blues into an emotionally complex and often cathartic whole.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/family-band-40200/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/family-band-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6d45dd5383dfbb452fd6a86c50b0aa328c8ccc936b1621e924c03edb01e45ff1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "David Binney Action Duo feat. Louis Cole", "start": "2026-11-09T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club", "address": "Frith Street 47, W1D 4HT London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "A jazz concert at the Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London, featuring David Binney. He performs with his David Binney Trio and David Binney Group, joined by Louis Cole and Pera Krstajic.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/david-binney-action-duo-feat-louis-cole-61590/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2d09bcb35b410a8d3d716bef1497cd757f57f2413df5a23633399c113b57c765-600.webp"}, {"title": "Stratos", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Grow, Hackney", "address": "Wallis Road 98, E9 5LN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://growhackney.squarespace.com/faqs", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "Stratos is the resident jazz band of Grow's weekly Thursday Jazz Jam, a long-standing night held at a canalside venue in Hackney Wick. The band is led by Mercury Prize-nominated bassist Rio Kai, with Dom Pusey on saxophone, Mike De Souza on guitar and Zoe Pascal on drums. Each set explores both the classic roots and boundary-pushing edges of jazz, with improvisation and connection at its centre. After the first set, the jam opens up to jazz musicians who want to join in, and entry is free for jammers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/stratos-61041/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8ab92d4ea34f2314ff21ec8fb489ed74f6b7751f43a641f05222815f38f44293-600.webp"}, {"title": "Jazz Night with Alasdair Pennington Trio", "start": "2026-11-11T20:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T22:00:00Z", "place": "Next Door Records", "address": "Uxbridge Road 304, W12 7LJ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "Jazz Night at Next Door Records is a monthly session presented by the Alasdair Pennington Trio. Pennington is a drummer and composer who has established himself as a creative voice in the London jazz and improvised music scenes, performing across Europe at venues and festivals including Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club and the EFG London Jazz Festival. With Benji Bown on piano and Sam Ingvorsen on double bass, the trio plays American Songbook repertoire, contemporary jazz standards and original compositions, with a changing line-up of sought-after improvising musicians and special guests each month. The event is for ages 18 and over.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jazz-night-with-alasdair-pennington-trio-49242/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/092e18b8f67863300a17d78cb39f6bcb7803b57206a90f9fd38981aede828ec0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "John Horler Trio - Celebrating Bill Evans", "start": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club", "address": "Frith Street 47, W1D 4HT London", "price": "", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "An evening of jazz at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club celebrating the music of Bill Evans. The John Horler Trio features John Horler on piano, Tim Wells on bass and Ronnie Jones on drums. Horler, one of Britain's top jazz pianists, first saw Evans play in London as a 17-year-old student and devotes the show to his legacy. He also shares stories between tunes and performs Evans' pioneering modern jazz repertoire.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/john-horler-trio-celebrating-bill-evans-70282/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bc96a452c993b46d8daea4f4b032695e912ac29aa80d976270357c380420ac47-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Andy Davies", "start": "2026-11-01T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "All Saints Church", "address": "All Saints Dr, Blackheath, SE3 0TY Windsor", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://wegottickets.com/location/28239", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "A monthly jazz jam session and evening of live music, presented by Highams Park Jazz Club. It features trumpeter Andy Davies, one of the UK's most respected and versatile trumpet players and host of the famous Wednesday night jazz jams at Ronnie Scott's, known for his expressive tone, creative improvisation and ability to inspire musical encounters between performers and audiences. He is joined by Soner Ersen, Andy Cleyndert and Eric Ford. The club welcomes him back for what promises a fantastic evening of music, improvisation and collaboration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/andy-davies-61228/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}