{"title": "MOPOMOSO: International Free Improvised Music – November 2026", "start": "2026-11-15T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T22:00:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "Standard £12 / Vortex Members £8 / Students & UC beneficiaries £8", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/free-improvisation"], "description": "An evening of international free improvised music at a Dalston jazz club, with three trios formed of musicians from Croatia and the USA, Germany and New Zealand, and the UK. The Croatia/USA group brings Boris Janje on double bass, Damir Kafka on saxophone and Tracy Lisk on drums; the Germany/New Zealand group Mitch Heinrich on vocals, Christoph Irmer on violin and David Leahy on double bass. The UK set, STARNOSEDMOLE, features Joanne Morrison on voice, movement and objects with Nick Smith on percussion. The groups are not necessarily playing in this order.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mopomoso-international-free-improvised-music-november-2026-40206/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/mopomoso-international-free-improvised-music-november-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c5b9fb08659cf472c5b47bb3cd084d399f0573174bac5486d5f3fb4b54aa2530-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-15T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T22:00:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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", "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": "Rachel Musson, Magda Drozd, Iris Casling & Douglas Benford", "start": "2026-11-08T15:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "£10 cash entry", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/free-improvisation"], "description": "An afternoon of live quartet improvisation at Hundred Years Gallery. Saxophonist Rachel Musson, violinist Magda Drozd, double bassist Iris Casling and Douglas Benford on recorders and objects each bring their own backgrounds in improvised and experimental music to the session. Doors open at 15:30, with the music starting at 16:00. Entry is £10 in cash.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rachel-musson-magda-drozd-iris-casling-douglas-benford-36573/", "official_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/music-musson-drozd-casling-benford/", "image": ""}, {"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", "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": "Random Trip x Kele Le Roc x Titii Orinoko x László Dés x Bence Vavra", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T23:00:00Z", "place": "The Fox & Firkin", "address": "Lewisham High Street 316, SE13 6JZ London", "price": "GBP 8–15", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/soul-funk/funk"], "description": "An improvised concert night presented by Rubix Group, bringing the Hungarian collective Random Trip to The Fox and Firkin with no setlist and no script, as singers, MCs and horn players are warmly welcome to join the international jam. The lineup features Kele Le Roc and Bence Vavra on vocals, László Dés on saxophone, Titii Orinoko on trumpet and flute, kristof7s on live looping and beatbox, DJ Q-Cee on turntables and Javor Delov on drums. Random Trip has spent 17 years as an ever-evolving collective where legends and rising stars jam side by side, weaving funk, jazz, hip-hop, soul and electronic into real-time improvisation, with past lineups including names like Vanessa Haynes, Derrick McKenzie and DubFX. The show takes place with the kind support of the Hungarian Culture Center – Liszt Institute London.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/random-trip-x-kele-le-roc-x-titii-orinoko-x-laszlo-des-x-ben-43997/", "official_url": "https://foxfirkin.com/event/random-trip-x-kele-le-roc-x-titii-orinoko-x-laszlo-des-x-bence-vavra-8th-november-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7aa149b8af1bf233e4d3f9aca2e0821e63a49a92bc458484862a4cf1e7065d91-2000.webp"}, {"title": "EFG London Jazz Festival presents: GEORGE CROWLEY / RUTH GOLLER / WILL GLASER (Matinée Show)", "start": "2026-11-14T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Green Note", "address": "Parkway 106, NW1 7AN London", "price": "£ 15.00", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/improvisation"], "description": "A matinee jazz concert at Green Note, part of the EFG London Jazz Festival. It brings together three musicians from alternative jazz and improvised music: George Crowley, Ruth Goller and Will Glaser. The trio combines intuitive group improvisation with Crowley's lyrical and melodic compositions. Other-worldly electronic sounds and textures add to their colourful and hypnotic musical universe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/efg-london-jazz-festival-presents-george-crowley-ruth-goller-76559/", "official_url": "https://www.greennote.co.uk/production/efg-london-jazz-festival-presents-george-crowley-ruth-goller-will-glaser-matinee-show/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2ae850b81a3fd1797e608fc88edf132daa5d24bf287c7c948b8ab5a25bb427e0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "ONe_Orchestra New", "start": "2026-11-10T19:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T22:30:00Z", "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", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/free-improvisation"], "description": "ONe_Orchestra New is an improvising large-group orchestra performing two sets of improvised music at the Vortex Jazz Club. The ensemble brings together seventeen musicians on saxophones, oboes, flutes, voice, sitar, piano, keyboards, turntables, electric guitar, double bass and electronics. Their work in large-group improvisation seeks to free themselves and their listeners from default assumptions built up through the centuries-long predominance of cis men in music. The shared experiences and sense of safety among the members allow them to explore boldly, uncovering new ways of hearing and new things to hear.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/one_orchestra-new-40198/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/one_orchestra-new-3/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/49a8501487574f9aabaac254fef30705494efa9f794a2cdfd32c4113324453d4-1200.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", "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": "DiBrasspora", "start": "2026-11-13T21:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Jamboree", "address": "St Chad's Place 6, London", "price": "£12 / £8 / £15", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/world/klezmer"], "description": "DiBrasspora is a collective of some of the UK's finest Klezmer brass and woodwind players who re-imagine traditional Klezmer and Moldovan melodies in a modern brass band context, with a strong focus on improvisation and inventive interpretation. The group draws inspiration and repertoire from the likes of German Goldenshteyn, Emil Kroitor and Konsonans Retro, and its members come from bands such as Don Kipper, Raka Balkan Band, Klezmer Foygl, Doikayt, Makam Salam and The Hop Skotshne Klezmer Band. The line-up features Daniel Gouly and Hannah Ochner on clarinet, Oliver Presman on trumpet, Mani Wells on alto saxophone, John Macnaughton on tenor saxophone, Adina Presman on tuba and Karen Yarnell on poik percussion. The night is part of the 2026 EFG London Jazz Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dibrasspora-60809/", "official_url": "https://www.jamboreevenue.co.uk/events/live-klezmer-and-moldovan-music-in-london/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5572a6e153d4a33749a19b3f74442e326a8556380b977950bfac46b32ee4052f-600.webp"}, {"title": "ResearchWorks: Bridging Two Musical Worlds Through Improvisation", "start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Guildhall School of Music and Drama", "address": "Silk Street, EC2Y 8DT London", "price": "Free, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/experimental/improvisation"], "description": "ResearchWorks: Bridging Two Musical Worlds Through Improvisation is a free, in-person and online event with discussion, experiment and performance exploring improvisation between jazz and classical musicians. Pianist and classical improvisation professor David Dolan and Greek jazz saxophonist Dimitrios Vassilakis improvise together while keeping their own musical languages, joined by an AI component reacting to what they play. With the audience, they ask what listening and a meaningful musical response are, where creativity and surprise arise, and who leads or follows. It is part of ResearchWorks, Guildhall School's programme sharing its research with students, staff and the public.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/researchworks-bridging-two-musical-worlds-through-improvisat-80629/", "official_url": "https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/researchworks-bridging-two-musical-worlds-through-improvisation", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ade4208292c7d1455c86180eb4d85493b7d02daf199182e4f73924cf80982f45-2000.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", "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": "Thurston Moore and Mark Wastell", "start": "2026-11-08T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T23:15:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "Standard £20 / Vortex Members £17 / Students & UC beneficiaries £15", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/free-jazz"], "description": "Thurston Moore and Mark Wastell bring their electric guitar and drums collaboration back to Vortex Jazz Club for a single-set show. Moore plays guitar and Wastell percussion in what the club calls an exciting collaboration between two vastly experienced masters of the craft. Their previous December show, played to a sell-out audience, was described as \"deeply post-psychedelic, dreamlike in atmosphere, before expanding into the charming spasms of free jazz.\"", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thurston-moore-and-mark-wastell-40197/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/thurston-moore-and-mark-wastell/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bd193a6e7a6bc39ef1fea7578ecf4fcc8b9078a0d14b20cf3803aa041b754d82-1200.webp"}]}