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The Vortex Jazz Club is a music venue in London. It was founded by David Mossman in 1988.
The Vortex started as a jazz club in 1988 and was located in
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Background
The Vortex started as a jazz club in 1988 and was located in Stoke Newington Church Street
Stoke Newington Church Street is a road in north London of the borough of Hackney. The road links Green Lanes (A105) in the west to Stoke Newington High Street (the A10, formerly Ermine Street), in the east. Stoke Newington is one of the vi ...
, north London. But after the acquisition of that building by property developers, the club was moved in 2005 to the Dalston Culture House in Gillett Street, N16, in Gillett Square. The Square opened on 10 November 2006 with a performance by Andy Sheppard's Saxophone Massive, a band of 200 saxophonists. The street in front of the club was renamed "Aim Bailey Place" in December 2007 in honor of guitarist Derek Bailey.
Musicians who have played at the Vortex include Bailey, Django Bates
Django Bates (born Leon Bates, 2 October 1960) is a British jazz musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist, band leader and educator. He plays the piano, keyboards and the tenor horn. Bates has been described as "one of the most talented musici ...
, Tim Berne
Tim Berne (born October 16, 1954) is an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and record label owner. His primary instruments are the alto and baritone saxophones.
Biography
Berne was born in Syracuse, New York, United States. He has said tha ...
, Liane Carroll
Liane Carroll (born 9 February 1964) is an English jazz vocalist, pianist and keyboardist.
Early life
Carroll's parents were semi-professional singers who met and sang at the Country Club in Eastbourne. She grew up in a musical householdIn a ...
, John Etheridge
John Michael Glyn Etheridge (born 12 January 1948) is an English jazz fusion guitarist, composer, bandleader and educator known for his eclecticism and broad range of associations in jazz, classical, and contemporary music. He is best known fo ...
, F-IRE Collective, Last Amendment, Evan Parker
Evan Shaw Parker (born 5 April 1944) is a British tenor and soprano saxophone player who plays free improvisation.
Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free ja ...
, Ian Shaw, and Kenny Wheeler
Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, Order of Canada, OC (14 January 1930 – 18 September 2014) was a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. from the 1950s onwards.
Most of his performances were rooted in jazz, but he w ...
. The first album on the club's record label was by the Portico Quartet
Portico Quartet are an instrumental band from London, United Kingdom. They are known for their use of the Hang (instrument), hang, a modern percussion instrument. Their debut album, ''Knee-Deep in the North Sea'', was nominated for the 2008 ...
. The club also hosts a Vocals@Vortex Open Mic Session run by Romy Summers and the house band, The Bob Stuckey Trio. It also has a monthly Gypsy/Eastern European night, hosted by Gina Boreham, which began in 2006 with Dunajska Kapelye's debut concert. The Vortex Club was founded by ex-taxi driver David Mossman. Mossman later started the Margate Jazz Festival before he died in 2018.
In 2007, the club set up a record label, Vortex Records, to release the debut album by London-based trio Portico Quartet
Portico Quartet are an instrumental band from London, United Kingdom. They are known for their use of the Hang (instrument), hang, a modern percussion instrument. Their debut album, ''Knee-Deep in the North Sea'', was nominated for the 2008 ...
. Their album '' Knee-Deep in the North Sea'' was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize
The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual Music award, music prize awarded for the best album released by a musical act from the Music of the United Kingdom, United Kingdom or Music of Ireland, Ireland. It was cre ...
.
Awards and honors
The club was nominated for venue of the year by the Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group in 2006 and 2007 and was winner of the Live Jazz Award in 2013. Since 26 March 2012, the club has been listed in '' Time Out'' magazine's readers' poll as one of London's best music venues and received a nomination for Live Promotion Team of the Year in Music Week's awards in 2011.See also
*List of jazz clubs
This is a list of notable Music venue, venues where jazz music is played. It includes jazz clubs, Nightclub, clubs, dancehalls and historic venues such as theatres. A jazz club is a Music venue, venue where the primary entertainment is the perfor ...
References
External links
Official site
{{Authority control Jazz clubs in London