Ada Rovatti started playing saxophone in high school after years of classical piano training. Originally from Italy, she attended Berklee College of Music in Boston where she studied with Joe Viola, George Garzone and Fred Lipsius. She kept ties with [...]
Mina Cho is a multifaceted scholar, jazz pianist, and composer with a specialization in Korean music and history. Originally from Seoul, she holds a faculty position at Emerson College’s Performing Arts Department, where she imparts knowledge in global music courses, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
The following is a feature by jazz journalist Morgan Enos about the late, great jazz pianist, synthesist and singer Les McCann, through the lens of his most recent archival recording, Never a Dull Moment! Live from Coast to Coast 1966-1967). [...]
Nat Bartsch is a twice ARIA-nominated Australian pianist and composer known for music that deftly walks across a spectrum from neoclassical to jazz, also dipping into the worlds of chamber music, children’s music and post-rock. She has released eight albums, [...]
This week’s edition of Mondays with Morgan is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and guitarist Dave Stryker, along with saxophonist Bob Mintzer. The two collaborated for Groove Street, featuring Mintzer with Stryker’s organ trio, which includes organist Jared [...]
This week’s Mothers in Jazz interview by Nicky Schrire features German vocalist and educator Natascha Roth. For the past twenty years, she has taught at universities in Belgium, Holland, Germany and South Africa as well as giving workshops and masterclasses [...]
In the latest of LJN’s series in which musicians write about their inspirations and idols, Liam Noble praises one of the greats, Max Roach (1924-2007). What would have been the drummer’s 100th birthday fell on 10 January 2024. Max Roach [...]
This week’s edition of Mondays with Morgan is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and sought-after drummer Adam Cruz. Cruz has two upcoming London performances: the Vortex on 13 January, and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club on 19 March. The [...]
Mothers in Jazz opens 2024 with this interview by Nicky Schrire with Kris Davis, the Canadian-born, Boston-based, Grammy award-winning pianist and composer. Kris has collaborated with artists including Terri Lyne Carrington, Dave Holland, John Zorn, Craig Taborn, Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn [...]
This week’s edition of Mondays with Morgan is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and Adam Deitch, a venerated drummer who plays in the long-running psychedelic funk band Lettuce, as well as Break Science and the Adam Deitch Quartet. [...]
This week’s edition of Mondays with Morgan is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and Lucas Pino, a top-shelf saxophonist, bandleader and composer who has worked extensively as a sideman and as the leader of the No Net Nonet. [...]
This week’s edition of Mondays with Morgan is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and Jennifer Wharton, a leading bass trombonist who works in jazz, commercial, chamber, and Broadway music, and leads the trombone-based project Bonegasm. Her new album [...]
Jo Harrop is a County Durham-born vocalist who first cut her teeth as a session singer. Since those early musical experiences, she has performed at Royal Albert Hall and Ronnie Scott’s, and in 2023 she won “Jazz Album of the [...]
This week’s edition of Mondays with Morgan is an interview between Morgan Enos and Steve Davis, a celebrated trombonist and former Jazz Messenger who has recorded with everyone from Chick Corea to Horace Silver to Cedar Walton. His new album [...]
Mélanie Dahan is a French vocalist who balances the art of chanson with a modern vocal jazz aesthetic. She will be at Ronnie Scott’s on Valentine’s Day 2024 She has performed worldwide and collaborated with musicians including Giovanni Mirabassi, Baptiste [...]
In the latest of our series where musicians write about their inspirations and idols, Alison Crockett (*) writes about Cassandra Wilson When I discovered Cassandra Wilson, it was after growing up listening to Jazz singers like Nancy Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald and [...]
This week’s edition of Mondays with Morgan is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and Cory Weeds, a renowned saxophonist and composer who runs Cellar Music Group and books Frankie’s Jazz Club in downtown Vancouver. Home Cookin’, his new [...]
This week‘s Mothers in Jazz features Brazilian vocalist Claudia Villela, who grew up surrounded by music in her grandmother’s home, beginning to make music herself when she was only a year old. After relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area, [...]
This week’s edition of Mondays with Morgan is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and Ray Gallon, a revered pianist, composer and arranger who has worked with a number of leading lights. Grand Company, his new trio album with [...]
“Mothers In Jazz” this week features pianist, composer, and educator Kerry Politzer. She is a first-call player on Portland, Oregon’s increasingly rich jazz scene, as well as an educator on Portland State University’s jazz faculty. She also received grants in [...]
Mothers In Jazz this week features Ellie Martin, a highly respected vocalist, composer, educator, and Jazz studies scholar. She is currently the vocal jazz instructor at the University of Toledo, as well as Toledo School for the Arts. Performance highlights [...]
In this week’s edition of Mondays with Morgan, jazz journalist Morgan Enos reviewed the latest iteration of the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition at NJPAC in Newark, New Jersey. Links to the venue’s and finalists’ websites can be found [...]
