Tim Berne/Tom Rainey/Gregg Beslisle-Chi (1st Show)

Fri Oct 24 2025

8:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Doors 7:30 PM)

Vortex Jazz Club

11 Gillett Square London N16 8AZ

£17.60 - £22.00

All Ages

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Doors 7:30 PM, Music 8:00 PM - 1 set(s) of music

 

Line-up:

Tim Berne - Alto Saxophone

Tom Rainey - Drums

Gregg Beslisle-Chi - Guitar

 
About

Gregg Belisle-Chi (池敏超) is an Asian-American guitarist and composer living in Brooklyn, New York, who over the past decade has been “busily establishing himself as an important and distinctive new voice in the contemporary guitar world” and “has emerged as one of the most creatively dexterous musicians.” (Earshot Jazz)

Within a career of mercurial interests, he has performed with Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Reid Anderson, Hank Roberts, Chris Potter, Mat Maneri, Jim Black, Ches Smith, Marc Ducret, Steve Swallow, Cuong Vu, Wayne Horvitz, Nasheet Waits, and many more in the Jazz, Improvised, Rock, and Chamber music worlds.Trio bios
Tom Rainey drums:

Tom Rainey was born in Pasadena, California in 1957. Since moving to New York in 1979 he has performed and or recorded with the following artists:

John Abercrombie, Mose Allison, Julian Arguelles, Ray Anderson, Tim Berne, Jane Ira Bloom, Anthony Braxton, Nels Cline, Ted Curson, Kris Davis, Mark Ducret, Mark Feldman, Michael Formanek, Drew Gress, Mark Helias, Fred Hersch, Andy Laster, Ingrid Laubrock, David Liebman, Joe Lovano, Tony Malaby, Albert Mangelsdorff, Carmen McRae, Mike Nock, Simon Nabatov, New and Used, Anita O'Day, Andrea Parkins, Herb Robertson, Angelica Sanchez, Louis Sclavis, Brad Shepik, Ken Werner, Denny Zeitlin.

Current activities include performing and recording music with the Tom Rainey Trio as well as his quintet, Obbligato. Tom also continues performing with many of the aforementioned artists.

Tim Berne is a composer, saxophonist and educator specializing in improvised music.

He has been performing internationally since 1982 with various ensembles including Caos Totale, Fractured Fairy Tales, Bloodcount and Snakeoil among others.
He has made over 50 recordings as a leader for labels such as Soul Note,Sony,JMT,
ECM and Intakt records.

Tim started his own label Screwgun records in 1996 and most recently released is Angel Dusk with Matt Mitchell. He has taught extensively since the late 90’s giving workshops in South America,Europe and America.

Recent awards and residencies include: New York State Council on the Arts New York State Foundation for the Arts Readers Digest/Meet the Composer (for the Kronos Quartet and the Rova Saxophone Quartet).

He is currently active with his Snakeoil group and Sun of Goldfinger.

Tim Berne/Tom Rainey/Gregg Beslisle-Chi (1st Show)

  • Tim Berne

    Tim Berne

    Modern Creative

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£22.00 (£20.00 + £2.00 Fees, excluding any delivery costs)
Vortex Members (proof of membership required on the night)
£19.80 (£18.00 + £1.80 Fees, excluding any delivery costs)
Students / UC beneficiaries (proof required upon entrance)
£17.60 (£16.00 + £1.60 Fees, excluding any delivery costs)

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INFORMATION FOR AUDIENCE MEMBERS – PLEASE READ

Welcome to the Vortex. Although the government is relaxing its Covid restrictions on July 19th 2021 the Vortex will continue to operate measures to protect users of the premises. Please note the following:
• Please buy tickets in advance as there will be no door sales.
• We ask you not to attend gigs if you have or think you may have any Covid-19 symptoms.
• We will ask you on entry to sign in for NHS Test and Trace either using the NHS Covid app or manually
• There will be no standing at gigs. Everyone who books a ticket will be allocated a seat, but we cannot guarantee that you will have a table.
• Orders for drinks and snacks will be taken and paid for using the Butlr app which you can download on arrival. (If you do not have a smartphone then your order will be taken at the table and you can make a contactless payment. We do not accept cash.)
• We ask that everyone wears a mask when moving around inside the building.
• Automatic hand sanitiser stations are provided at various places within the building and we encourage regular use of hand sanitiser.
• Full details of the measures that we are taking to prevent transmission of Covid are set out in our risk assessment and management plan which can be found on our website.

Tim Berne/Tom Rainey/Gregg Beslisle-Chi (1st Show)

Fri Oct 24 2025 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM

(Doors 7:30 PM)

Vortex Jazz Club London
Tim Berne/Tom Rainey/Gregg Beslisle-Chi (1st Show)

£17.60 - £22.00 All Ages

Doors 7:30 PM, Music 8:00 PM - 1 set(s) of music

 

Line-up:

Tim Berne - Alto Saxophone

Tom Rainey - Drums

Gregg Beslisle-Chi - Guitar

 
About

Gregg Belisle-Chi (池敏超) is an Asian-American guitarist and composer living in Brooklyn, New York, who over the past decade has been “busily establishing himself as an important and distinctive new voice in the contemporary guitar world” and “has emerged as one of the most creatively dexterous musicians.” (Earshot Jazz)

Within a career of mercurial interests, he has performed with Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Reid Anderson, Hank Roberts, Chris Potter, Mat Maneri, Jim Black, Ches Smith, Marc Ducret, Steve Swallow, Cuong Vu, Wayne Horvitz, Nasheet Waits, and many more in the Jazz, Improvised, Rock, and Chamber music worlds.Trio bios
Tom Rainey drums:

Tom Rainey was born in Pasadena, California in 1957. Since moving to New York in 1979 he has performed and or recorded with the following artists:

John Abercrombie, Mose Allison, Julian Arguelles, Ray Anderson, Tim Berne, Jane Ira Bloom, Anthony Braxton, Nels Cline, Ted Curson, Kris Davis, Mark Ducret, Mark Feldman, Michael Formanek, Drew Gress, Mark Helias, Fred Hersch, Andy Laster, Ingrid Laubrock, David Liebman, Joe Lovano, Tony Malaby, Albert Mangelsdorff, Carmen McRae, Mike Nock, Simon Nabatov, New and Used, Anita O'Day, Andrea Parkins, Herb Robertson, Angelica Sanchez, Louis Sclavis, Brad Shepik, Ken Werner, Denny Zeitlin.

Current activities include performing and recording music with the Tom Rainey Trio as well as his quintet, Obbligato. Tom also continues performing with many of the aforementioned artists.

Tim Berne is a composer, saxophonist and educator specializing in improvised music.

He has been performing internationally since 1982 with various ensembles including Caos Totale, Fractured Fairy Tales, Bloodcount and Snakeoil among others.
He has made over 50 recordings as a leader for labels such as Soul Note,Sony,JMT,
ECM and Intakt records.

Tim started his own label Screwgun records in 1996 and most recently released is Angel Dusk with Matt Mitchell. He has taught extensively since the late 90’s giving workshops in South America,Europe and America.

Recent awards and residencies include: New York State Council on the Arts New York State Foundation for the Arts Readers Digest/Meet the Composer (for the Kronos Quartet and the Rova Saxophone Quartet).

He is currently active with his Snakeoil group and Sun of Goldfinger.

Tim Berne

Tim Berne

Modern Creative

Please correct the information below.

Select ticket quantity.

Select Tickets

All Ages
limit 10 per person
Seated / Standing
Standard
£22.00 (£20.00 + £2.00 Fees, excluding any delivery costs)
Vortex Members (proof of membership required on the night)
£19.80 (£18.00 + £1.80 Fees, excluding any delivery costs)
Students / UC beneficiaries (proof required upon entrance)
£17.60 (£16.00 + £1.60 Fees, excluding any delivery costs)

Delivery Method

eTickets
Box Office Collection

Terms & Conditions

INFORMATION FOR AUDIENCE MEMBERS – PLEASE READ

Welcome to the Vortex. Although the government is relaxing its Covid restrictions on July 19th 2021 the Vortex will continue to operate measures to protect users of the premises. Please note the following:
• Please buy tickets in advance as there will be no door sales.
• We ask you not to attend gigs if you have or think you may have any Covid-19 symptoms.
• We will ask you on entry to sign in for NHS Test and Trace either using the NHS Covid app or manually
• There will be no standing at gigs. Everyone who books a ticket will be allocated a seat, but we cannot guarantee that you will have a table.
• Orders for drinks and snacks will be taken and paid for using the Butlr app which you can download on arrival. (If you do not have a smartphone then your order will be taken at the table and you can make a contactless payment. We do not accept cash.)
• We ask that everyone wears a mask when moving around inside the building.
• Automatic hand sanitiser stations are provided at various places within the building and we encourage regular use of hand sanitiser.
• Full details of the measures that we are taking to prevent transmission of Covid are set out in our risk assessment and management plan which can be found on our website.