Guardian Music — Vortex Jazz Club, LondonThe Vortex Jazz Club has begun a programme of collaborations between authors and jazz musicians called WordPlay. It could hardly have picked a more apposite guest for the scheme's debut, since novelist and columnist Geoff Dye... more info

Totally Fuzzy — W said... A look at cosmic bands playing in cosmic places. * PINK FLOYD At Pompeii (1972) * HAWKWIND At Stonehenge (1984) * GRATEFUL DEAD At The Giza Pyramids (3CD 1978) Listen Before You Download * REDUX http://ngootbredux.blogspot.com Thanks Fuzzy ... more info

The Culture Of Me — Top Billin artists Wool & Vortex have made a pretty great skateboarding video for their tune, "Magic Carpet Ride", a track that features a haunting vocal over classic house tones. All in all a winning package. The pair, Plant Music member/The Glass's... more info

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