Jazz Articles about Kalia Vandever

About Kalia Vandever

Live Review

Kalia Vandever at LOFT in Cologne

by Matty Bannond
September 13, 2026

Kalia Vandever, Simon Jermyn, Florian Herzog, Jonas Burgwinkel LOFT Cologne Jazzweek Cologne, Germany September 8, 2026 Loft is stashed away in an unassuming side-street courtyard. It offers seats for around 100 visitors, who must first prove their fortitude by tramping up five flights of narrow stairs. After attaining the summit on September 8, they met a sharp tang of cleaning products and a small performance space with a baby grand piano tucked behind ...

Radio & Podcasts

Kalia Vandever shares Another View while While Billy Hart is Multidirectional!

by Hobart Taylor
November 26, 2025

Innovative trombonist/composer Kalia Vandever shares her new music, as well as tunes from Shoko Nagai, Jane Ira Bloom, Montreal's Hugo Blouin and an homage to Ray Brown from Dave Holland and John Scofield. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Yazz Ahmed “A Paradise in the Hold" from A Paradise in the Hold (Remixed) (Night Time Stories) 00:07 Billy Hart “Amethyst" from Multidirectional (Smoke Sessions) 10:10 Maria Kaushansky “Northbound To Finch" from Northbound To Finch (Flat 6th) 19:36 Mark Masters/Billy Harper ...

Album Review

Erica Seguine: The New Day Bends Light

Read "The New Day Bends Light" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
March 11, 2024

Impegnandosi nel ruolo di produttore, Darcy James Argue dà particolare considerazione al debutto discografico di quest'ensemble, fondato nel 2011 a New York dalle compositrici Erica Seguine e Shon Baker. La prima è anche arrangiatrice e guida dell'orchestra, la seconda entra nel cast come sassofonista. Dopo varie esibizioni in locali chiave della Big Apple, le due leader hanno selezionato sette composizioni originali dal loro repertorio, incidendole con un ampio organico comprendente talentuosi solisti della metropoli. Alcuni di essi ...

Album Review

Erica Seguine/Shon Baker Orchestra: The New Day Bends Light

Read "The New Day Bends Light" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 2, 2023

The New Day Bends Light, the debut recording by the twelve-year-old Erica Seguine/Shon Baker Orchestra, is interesting on a number of levels, not the least of which is emotional. The leaders and their twenty-one piece ensemble are clearly committed to the music and do their best to breathe life into each of the album's seven numbers, three of which were written by Seguine, three by Baker and the other ("Ose Shalom") by Nurit Hirsh. Aside from that, there is the ...

Album Review

Steven Feifke: The Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra

Read "The Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
May 10, 2023

Metti assieme un talentoso giovane orchestratore come Steven Feifke, un trombettista di prima grandezza come Bijon Watson e una big band con grandi nomi e prestigiosi ospiti e il risultato è scontato. Il debutto della Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra è stato propiziato dalla collaborazione col Jazz Education Network ed ha assunto le vesti di un album includendo in organico ospiti di rilievo come Kurt Elling, Sean Jones e Chad Lefkowitz Brown. Il principale riferimento è la tradizione ...

Album Review

Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra: The Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra

Read "The Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
September 12, 2022

The Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra, co-led by pianist/composer Steven Feifke and trumpeter par excellence Bijon Watson, is a seventeen-member ensemble comprising seasoned players paired with young lions who are poised to capture pride of place. Nowhere do the leaders say who is in which group, and it would be impolitic to name them here. Suffice to say that some of the names may be more familiar than others--as, for example, trombonist John Fedchock who cut his teeth with one of ...

Radio & Podcasts

Kalia Vandever, Binker Golding, Miles Davis, Alex Sipiagin & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 21, 2022

The spotlight on emerging trombonist Kalia Vandever, Binker Golding midwestern fantasies, a version of “Bitches Brew" (the song) from before Bitches Brew (the album), and much more in this set.Happy listening!PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Ghost Funk Orchestra, Ben Pirani “Can't Get Out Your Own Way" Can't Get Out Your Own Way (Remix)—Single (Palmetto St.) 00:16 Host talks 3:43 Dr. John “Right Place Wrong Time" In the Right Place ...