{"title": "Tom McCredie – Jazz Workshop", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T17:00:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "£30 for Adults", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["music/jazz/improvisation"], "description": "A relaxed, welcoming jazz workshop at the Vortex for musicians who want to play, learn and develop together. Participants rehearse jazz standards, work on improvisation and ensemble playing, and build towards forming regular groups with chances to perform. It is open to instrumentalists with some playing experience, even those who are not experienced jazz players — just bring your instrument and a willingness to learn. It is led by jazz bassist, guitarist and educator Tom McCredie.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tom-mccredie-jazz-workshop-114334/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/tom-mccredie-jazz-workshop-4/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/03188d3906fdbfb514c6b7b60b39d853fe7f47456e55b6584ba8479c38a2c6e5-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T17:00:00Z", "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": "New River Improvisations: A Workshop with Seijiro Murayama", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T21:00:00Z", "place": "New River Studios", "address": "Eade Road 199, N4 1DN London", "price": "£30 (Covers the full two-day workshop)", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["music/experimental/improvisation"], "description": "A two-evening workshop conceived as a single unit, based on improvisational practice. It is led by Seijiro Murayama, an improviser-percussionist born in 1957 in Japan who has released around fifty albums and co-authored the book Idioms and Idiots. The sessions use a simple yet effective method he has developed over the past 20 years from an outsider's perspective, as both a non-Westerner and a non-musician. Open to all levels, participants bring their instrument and a notebook, and Murayama improvises the process of the workshop itself.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/new-river-improvisations-a-workshop-with-seijiro-murayama-37335/", "official_url": "https://newriverstudios.com/event/new-river-improvisations-a-workshop-with-seijiro-murayama/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3441cdc45f12290054da77dc1b4ce6f8952a3f03744e4779e088d1bb152b6344-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Live Jamming Workshop", "start": "2026-11-06T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T19:00:00Z", "place": "Community Links", "address": "Barking Road 105, E16 4HQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["music"], "description": "Live Jamming Workshop is a weekly music session for young musicians. It is run by Links Studios at Community Links and is open to youth ages 11-19. Participants network and meet new players, bouncing ideas and gaining experience playing with other people. Anyone interested in the creative opportunities can sign up through Links Studios.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/live-jamming-workshop-41277/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Ashley Pezzotti Vocal Masterclass", "start": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Toulouse Lautrec", "address": "140 Newington Butts, SE11 4RN London", "price": "", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": "50.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "Ashley Pezzotti Vocal Masterclass is an interactive session where singers perform for and receive personalised feedback from an acclaimed jazz vocalist. American singer, composer and educator Ashley Pezzotti leads it, exploring improvisation techniques, lyric interpretation, rhythmic phrasing and how to approach transcribing solos. Participants gain practical tools for developing musical ideas, communicating a song's meaning and singing with greater freedom and individuality. It forms part of the EFG London Jazz Festival 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ashley-pezzotti-vocal-masterclass-81000/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68efb63a5b603a341a160c345f19a08c13435df159bbd590ff2db0dfa8044473-1200.webp"}, {"title": "David Berkman: Masterclass and Concert", "start": "2026-11-13T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Morley College London", "address": "Wornington Road, London", "price": "Masterclass + concert: £20.00; concert only: £15.00; masterclass only: £15.00", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "A jazz masterclass and concert at Morley College London featuring acclaimed New York pianist, composer, educator and bandleader David Berkman. Berkman, a major presence on the New York jazz scene for more than three decades, leads an open workshop on creativity, improvisation, composition and practising for musicians of any instrument, level or style, then performs a concert with Tom Farmer on double bass and Flavio Li Vigni on drums.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/david-berkman-masterclass-and-concert-91490/", "official_url": "https://morleycollege.ac.uk/event/david-berkman-masterclass-and-concert-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1d4d2fc260f0d4db29bed26294c37cd35f674961d369d431fa1148bec44a9a1f-2000.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", "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": "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": "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"}, {"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": "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": "Finn Carter & Stephanie Burrell", "start": "2026-11-12T19:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T22:30:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "Standard £16 / Vortex Members £8 / Students & UC beneficiaries £7", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "A live performance at a jazz club pairing piano and dance, exploring improvisation and communication between the two forms. Pianist and composer Finn Carter, a fixture of London's jazz scene who has also worked with Loyle Carner, Olivia Dean and Rex Orange County, leads a new project as part of his monthly residency. He is joined by Stephanie Burrell, an artist whose dance and choreography practice fuses improvisation with theatrical modes of performance shaped by jazz.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/finn-carter-stephanie-burrell-40201/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/finn-carter-stephanie-burrell/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3879cadd82a272eb27b71b21b85b5e0dcbb1dc303a0885aa9d4093f4dfcb022b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "David Berkman: Masterclass and Concert", "start": "2026-11-13T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Morley College London", "address": "Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7HT London", "price": "Masterclass + concert: £20.00, Concert only: £15.00, Masterclass only: £15.00", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "A masterclass and concert at Morley College London featuring David Berkman, a New York pianist, composer, educator and bandleader who has been a major presence on the New York jazz scene for more than three decades. The open workshop welcomes everyone regardless of instrument, style, level or previous jazz experience, offering insights into creativity, improvisation, composition, listening and practising. In the evening concert, the David Berkman Trio — Berkman on piano, Tom Farmer on bass and Flavio Li Vigni on drums — performs music full of harmony, rhythm, romance and mystery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/david-berkman-masterclass-and-concert-46171/", "official_url": "https://morleycollege.ac.uk/event/david-berkman-masterclass-and-concert-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1d4d2fc260f0d4db29bed26294c37cd35f674961d369d431fa1148bec44a9a1f-2000.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", "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": "Theatre Drop In", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Roundhouse", "address": "Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8EH London", "price": "£2", "price_from": "2.00", "price_to": "2.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["stage/theatre/improvisational-theatre"], "description": "Theatre Drop In is a weekly theatre session for 18–25 year olds, offering space to act, dance and explore performance while building confidence. Sessions cover a fresh focus each week, from improv and ensemble work to devising and cabaret, in a supportive, relaxed environment led by experienced facilitators including Phao May and Isaac Jordan, plus guest tutors, with guest tutors bringing expertise from different elements of theatre. No specific skills are needed, though it is most relevant to people who have done some theatre or dance before, and each session stands alone so you can drop in whenever you can. Join by coming to the front desk of Roundhouse Studios and paying on arrival; spaces are limited and first come first serve, so arrive at the latest fifteen minutes before the start to sign in.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/theatre-drop-in-64957/", "official_url": "https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/drop-in-theatre-18-25-au26/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9a123e2cd77730b739edeec6394c8844d0be50b37af769c98a3a0f80b1f32097-2000.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"}, {"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", "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"}]}