Vocalist Esther Kaiser was born in Freiburg in Southern Germany and moved to Berlin in the late 90s to study with jazz greats like Judy Niemack and Jiggs Whigham. Since 2014, she has been a professor of singing, jazz, rock, [...]
Released towards the end of last year, trumpeter Verneri Pohjola‘s latest record features a quartet drawn from the cream of European jazz talent, with Jasper Høiby on bass, Kit Downes on piano, and Olavi Louhivuori on drums. Høiby and Downes will be familiar to most listeners; perhaps [...]
This week’s edition of Mondays with Morgan is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and the exemplary trombonist and composer Marshall Gilkes. On 26 January, Gilkes released a new album, LifeSongs, featuring Germany’s WDR Big Band. Marshall Gilkes had [...]
It’s little wonder that Scottish drummer John Rae has become a force on the New Zealand jazz scene. Before he emigrated to Wellington in 2008, Rae marshalled four other bandleaders – saxophonist Phil Bancroft, trumpeter Colin Steele, pianist Brian Kellock [...]
