{"title": "Reiss Ellis Beckles presents Blues and The Abstract Truth", "start": "2026-11-18T19:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T22:30:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "Standard £19 / Vortex Members £17 / Students & UC beneficiaries £15", "price_from": "19.00", "price_to": "19.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "A one-night jazz concert at the Vortex Jazz Club in which a seven-piece band performs Oliver Nelson's landmark 1961 album The Blues and the Abstract Truth in its entirety. It is led by saxophonist and bandleader Reiss Ellis Beckles, who plays alto saxophone alongside Joseph Oti on trumpet, Houston Patton on tenor saxophone, Phil Knights on baritone saxophone, Simon Purcell on piano, Tom Riviere on double bass and Laura Klain on drums. Using Nelson's original arrangements, the ensemble celebrates the album's powerful melodies, sophisticated harmonies and timeless blues language. It is a rare chance to hear one of jazz's most influential recordings performed live, as originally conceived.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/reiss-ellis-beckles-presents-blues-and-the-abstract-truth-40209/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/reiss-ellis-beckles-presents-blues-and-the-abstract-truth/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5d0c6f6dcb3943fe32168cc8230cea35ce4b5c54c1b26deffb2465a551764f48-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-18T19:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T22:30:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Jazz at Trades, London Jazz Festival Special - The Music of Duke Ellington", "start": "2026-11-17T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-17T21:30:00Z", "place": "Walthamstow Trades Hall", "address": "61-63 Tower Hamlets Road, E17 4RQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/big-band"], "description": "Jazz at Trades is Walthamstow's premier jazz night, and for this London Jazz Festival special it celebrates the 2026 festival with ambitious new arrangements of the music of Duke Ellington. The music is played by an all-star group of improvisers who, as bandleaders and composers themselves, constantly seek to expand the language of their own music, much like Ellington himself. The lineup features Kim Macari on trumpet, Reiss Ellis Beckles on alto saxophone, Riley Stone-Lonergan on tenor saxophone, Olly Chalk on piano, Tom Rivière on double bass and George Grundy on drums.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jazz-at-trades-london-jazz-festival-special-the-music-of-duk-70771/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/90a7600bfe1778e3af7508d2a54b2b73c32fc8c7fd46e41dd00f732242035073-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Crowley / Bonney / Brice / Harlan", "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", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/free-jazz"], "description": "A jazz quartet evening at Vortex, with one set of improvised music inspired by free jazz classics. UK improvisers Alex Bonney on trumpet, Olie Brice on double bass, George Crowley on tenor saxophone and Sacha Harlan on drums play pieces by Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Albert Ayler and Paul Motian.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/crowley-bonney-brice-harlan-131329/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/bonney-brice-crowley-giles/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c435acac4c53942f2d77176ef8e5213a25df5e40486f69776875ca3bcc165e91-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Alex Bonney", "start": "2026-11-11T18:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/improvisation"], "description": "An evening of live jazz at the Vortex Jazz Club in Dalston's Gillett Square. Trumpeter Alex Bonney performs with olie brice, George Crowley, and Tim Giles, bringing together four London jazz musicians for a night of improvised music.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/alex-bonney-129528/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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", "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": "Jean Toussaint Quintet Opening: Nnamdi Nnachi-Cole Quartet", "start": "2026-11-13T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "World Heart Beat", "address": "3 Ponton Rd, SW11 7BD London", "price": "£20/£22.50/£30", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "30.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "A jazz double bill at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, opening with a young London quartet and headlined by a quintet led by a Grammy Award-winning saxophonist. Nnamdi Nnachi-Cole Quartet opens the night: the young pianist, trained at the Julian Joseph Jazz Academy, leads a band with Ellis Gates on drums, Hass Richards on bass and Kassa Green Jaksci on alto saxophone. Headlining is Jean Toussaint's JT5, blending swinging, soulful, bluesy and funky contemporary jazz, drawing on Toussaint's years with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and his standing as a composer, bandleader and educator.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jean-toussaint-quintet-opening-nnamdi-nnachi-cole-quartet-61795/", "official_url": "https://worldheartbeat.org/whats-on/event/jean-toussaint-quintet-opener-nnamdi-nnachi-cole-trio/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a883816fc67069c5c1d567fb8d452258009c044cf4407ad03168adeb4c936d4f-1200.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": "Jochen Rueckert New Quartet", "start": "2026-11-06T19:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T22:30:00Z", "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", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "Jochen Rueckert New Quartet is a jazz concert at Vortex Jazz Club with two sets of music. Drummer Jochen Rueckert leads his new New York City quartet, a band of standout young musicians decades his junior who champion the next generation. The line-up features Kevin Sun on tenor saxophone, Alexandra Ridout on trumpet and Hamish Smith on double bass. The band is releasing its debut album \"How to Survive a Beheading\", Rueckert's seventh jazz album as a bandleader.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jochen-rueckert-new-quartet-40195/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/jochen-rueckert-new-quartet/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4dc6b3e7c79869802253515fc0ab0a89c0dac4edcb36bee903511966424cb052-1200.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"}, {"title": "Riley Stone-lonergan", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Ladbroke Hall", "address": "79 Barlby Road, W10 6AZ London", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "100.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "A jazz evening led by Galway-born saxophonist Riley Stone-Lonergan, built around improvisation. The Galway-born saxophonist, best known as a third of QOW Trio with bassist Eddie Myer and drummer Spike Wells, digs into a set of jazz standards with Will Barry, Will Sach and Will Cleasby for a night built on spontaneity. The concert is curated by Zhenya Strigalev.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/riley-stone-lonergan-61443/", "official_url": "https://ladbrokehall.com/live-programme/jazz/riley-stone-lonergan-quartet/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cef7b689e6e71b1978d70d4e0d4cfe8d423a8c3c81897a31ad46c82a579fdcd6-2000.webp"}]}