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Until We Meet Again
Avin Ahmadi & Lorenz Widauer
Release: 28. November 2025 | Hideout Records
We don’t include many new releases on this site. But this one seemed very appropriate, as it’s an excuse to draw attention to a scene which we have had contact with every year, bringing in one or two concerts through the support of the...
“Music is a legal performance-enhancing drug.” Thus wrote Professor Daisy Fancourt recently in the Guardian. Perhaps this is a reason why attending live music at the Vortex can be so uplifting. So, this newsletter is a reminder that you should consider coming to gigs as means of personal pick-me-up. Notwithstanding the other social benefits, such as the social and shared expe...
“Unselfing” is, according to author and philosopher Iris Murdoch, an important way to keep sane and be energised: it is achieved by immersing oneself in a work of art, music or nature. As she wrote: “It invigorates our best faculties and, to use Platonic language, inspires love in the highest part of the soul.”
So music, in its recorded form as well as live at th...
A version of this also appeared on UK Jazz News
Hans Falb, founder and director for 45 years of Nickelsdorf Konfrontationen festival in Austria, died at the age of 71 on 26 December.
Nickelsdorf, itself just a small village on the border with Hungary, over the years has arguably become the most important festival on the European free improv circuit. It all...
Chris Pugh
The Vortex is a community.
So our regulars such as audience or volunteers are as important to us as musicians.
So, when a regular like Chris sadly dies, it leaves a gap for us.
Chris was a regular at all the small jazz venues around London. So while we saw him regularly at the Vortex, he was frequently at venues such...
