Event

Title:: Rachel Grimes + Nils Frahm
When:: 15.09.2010 20.30
Where:: Vortex Jazz Club - London
Category:: Live Music (with DJs)

Description

Wednesday 15 | 8.30pm | £9 | Book online

Rachel Grimes

Influenced by Erik Satie and Michael Nyman, as composer and pianist of the the pinoeering indie group – Rachel's – the album 'Music for Egon Schiele' was her primary work.

'The gorgeous tones and deep swells of her grand piano radiate. The result is so intimate you feel as if you are alone with her in a room or in a field when she injects the somber drama of her compositions with field recordings of birds and insects' (Time Out Chicago).

Nils Frahm

A masterful improvisational pianist Nils Frahm is poised to become something of a sensation. Raised on a musical diet of classical and jazz, Frahm started playing the piano as a young student of Nahum Brodski, himself a student of Tchaikovsky’s last protégé.

'Emotionally charged piano music which always errs toward the melodic side of melancholy' (Mojo).

Venue

Venue:: Vortex Jazz Club - Website
Street:: 11 Gillett Square
ZIP:: N16 8AZ
City:: London
State:: Dalston
Country:: UK

Description

The Vortex Jazz Club

The world-renowed jazz club in Dalston, North London

Established In North London for over 20 years, the club is a beacon for contemporary jazz in the capital.

With seven evening performances a week the Vortex programmes cutting-edge jazz alongside contemporary folk and world music.

While it places a strong emphasis on, and provides support for, young local talent, it also regularly features leading world-class artists, both from the UK and overseas – for example – from the UK, Stan Tracey, Tony Kofi, Evan Parker, Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine, Mercury Music Prize Nominated Polar Bear and Zoe Rahmann, John Taylor and Gwilym Simcock and award-winning saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock.

From abroad, the club has connections with New York downtown scene musicians such as Tim Berne and Claudia Quintet, as well as European groups such as [em], radio.string.quartet, Lotte Anker and Wolfgang Muthspiel.

There is something to appeal to all musical tastes: straightahead, big-band, contemporary, piano trio, vocal, free-improv, world-music, Gypsy/East European and folk-orientated...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Vortex Jazz Club is housed in the Dalston Culture House, a striking new landmark building designed by Hackney architects Hawkins Brown. Full programme details can be found on our website - see below.

Private hire for 10 to 100 people is available for parties, corporate functions, meetings, rehearsals and concerts during the daytime, evening or both by arrangement. Hire includes use of the PA system and fully licensed bar.

For a quote please 020 7254 4097, or email the address below.
Unit B9 - Bradbury Street - N16 Tel: 020 7254 4097
Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Web: www.vortexjazz.co.uk