Guardian Music — Vortex, LondonThe bad news is that Acoustic Ladyland, the London band that burst out of the jazz box a decade ago with a mix of paint-stripping free-sax blasting and insolently punky rock'n'roll, is playing its final gigs. The good news is that this ... more info

Discobelle.net — WOOL & VORTEX – MAGIC CARPET from Top Billin on Vimeo. more info

Culture Bully — Music video for "Dreams" by Vortex Rikers using footage of At Land by Maya Deren. more info

Guardian Music — Vortex, LondonPianist and composer Alex von Schlippenbach is one of the most influential of a postwar generation of German jazz musicians who revived the music after years of Nazi banishment. After a classical education in the 50s, Schlippenbach laun... more info

Guardian Music — Various venues, LondonIf Robert Glasper, the young Texan pianist, had been commissioned to nail in an hour what the London jazz festival's all about, he could hardly have done a better job than his Barbican appearance. The hip-hop-savvy and improvisa... more info

All About Jazz — A lovely evening was had at the RNCM last week for the Kenny Wheeler 80th Birthday concert. It's been a while since I've seen Wheeler, back when I was living in London. I managed to see him quite a few times at the Vortex, then on Stoke Newington Chu... more info

Guardian Music — Vortex, LondonAlto saxophonist Paul van Kemenade has played a lot of world music, but the Dutchman's good-humoured and casually adept quintet sounded, on its vivacious Vortex visit, like a contemporary jazz band to its fingertips.Some of it suggested... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — The former Oasis guitarist Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs has left his new band The Vortex.The band were scheduled to play at Square One in Crewe this Saturday (October, 23), but have been forced to cancel following Bonehead’s announcement.Bonehead pl... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Legendary Oasis guitarist Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs is in Crewe on Saturday to perform with his new band The Vortex at Square One.Bonehead formed the seminal Britpop rockers (then called The Rain) in the late 1980s, while working as a building cont... more info

Guardian Music — Vortex, LondonWith the dust barely settled after one of the year's unforgettable free-jazz shows (saxist Ken Vandermark with the Scandinavian mavericks Atomic), promoter Tony Dudley-Evans and Birmingham Jazz have toured another spectacular double bil... more info