What’s on at the Vortex: October highlights

Tuesday 5 | 8.30pm | £12
Bob Brozman

A guitarist like no other, Bob Brozman is an established and prolific recording artist, a performer, producer and author, as well as a non-stop world traveller and tireless researcher in ethnomusicology. This gig not eligible for members’ discounts.

Thursday 7 | 8.30pm | £8
Carsten Daerr Trio

Berlin-based pianist Carsten Daerr is rated one of the most promising international musicians to watch. With Oliver Potratz (double-bass), and Eric Schaefer (drums). Supported by the Goethe-Institut London

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Tom Arthurs & Richard Fairhurst
Postcards from Pushkin
Leading lights of the British jazz scene, flugel player Tom Arthurs (currently a BBC New Generation Artist) and pianist Richard Fairhurst, (Steinway Artist and BBC Jazz Awards Innovation winner), embark on their second outing of beauty, intricacy and intimacy. Inspired, naturally, by the great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin, Postcards from Pushkin was commissioned by the BBC for the 2009 City of London Festival.

Tuesday 19 | 8.30pm | £14
Martin Simpson

The music ranges from solo guitar instrumentals and songs to full band arrangements. The influences are eclectic, Northumbrian dance tunes, Anglo Scots ballads, old timey and blues songs, New Orleans jazz and Rand B and more. The sounds are highly distinctive, led by Simpson’s guitars, banjola and banjo.

Wednesday 20 | 8.30pm | £10 adv £12 door
Joe McPhee Survival Unit III

American free-jazz multiinstrumentalist Joe McPhee (tenor sax & pocket trumpet) with Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello) and Michael Zerang (percussion). This gig not eligible for members’ discounts.

Thursday 21 | 8.30pm | £10 adv £12 door | Book online
Joe McPhee Survival Unit III

As Wednesday 20. This gig not eligible for members’ discounts.

Friday 22 | 8.30pm | £12
Anderson, Bennink, Mobus, Glerum & Van Kemenade
European improvisation, American jazz , Spanish and West African folk. This gig not eligible for members’ discounts.

Saturday 23 | 8.30pm | £12
Anderson, Bennink, Mobus, Glerum & Van Kemenade

See Friday 22. This gig not eligible for members’ discounts.

The Vortex
11 Gillett Square
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N16 8AZ

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