Originally from Canterbury in Kent, Suzy Jackson studied for a B.Mus at King’s College London, which has a partnership with the Royal Academy of Music, and where she studied flute. Suzy ran the University of London’s Big Band from 2009-2011, [...]
“I’ve become the musician that I am by daring to do these things!” Luise Volkmann is a force of nature. 2022 will see the Cologne-based saxophonist and composer perform across Europe with her trio Autochrom (alongside bassist Athina Kontou and [...]
Drummer, composer and producer Romarna Campbell (*) talks about meeting her teenage inspirations, how she nearly gave up drums and the complex challenges of being a Black woman in music. 26-year-old drummer, composer and producer Romarna Campbell potters around her [...]
Rachael Cohen’s lively presence on stage and her playing always create an atmosphere and climate of positivity and energy, even in the most surprising circumstances. This feature is part of a pan-European initiative “International Women’s Day celebrated by European Jazz [...]
Anastasia Wolkenstein, originally from Magdeburg in the former East Germany, lives and works in Regensburg in eastern Bavaria. Her company, Agentur Wolkenstein, which she has run since 2009, has an artist list that might appear short (Anastasia has been known [...]
The Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra’s “Face to Face” tour was originally planned to take place in 2020. It has… finally…reached its joyous conclusion. Every musician on stage seemed to not just to be proving at every moment a deep belief [...]
Swiss pianist and composer Gisela Horat will be in concert with her trio at Jazz Cafe POSK on Saturday, 19 March 2022. Gisela Horat was surrounded by music during her upbringing in a small mountain village in the canton of [...]
