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The Vortex Jazz Club

Eighty-odd seats above a square in Dalston, and the room where British jazz mostly gets tried out first.

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It is a charity, run largely by volunteers, in an upstairs room with a bar and no glamour whatsoever. What it has instead is the most adventurous programme in the city: new British bands, free improvisation, European and African players who would not fill a larger room, and a booking policy that treats an unproven group as worth an evening.

A good part of the generation of London players who now sell out bigger halls played the Vortex first, which is the argument for going on a night when you have not heard of anyone on the bill.

Where
11 Gillett Square, N16 8AZ
Nearest station
Dalston Kingsland · 1 min walk

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