Holly Norman is a drummer, percussionist, songwriter and composer based in Perth, Western Australia. An alumnus of the University of Miami and WA Academy of Performing Arts, Holly is a serial collaborator, blending her classical and jazz backgrounds to platform [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and trombonist, composer, educator, and Outside In Music label founder Nick Finzer. His new album, Legacy, a tribute to the pioneering trombonist J.J. Johnson, will be released 5 April via [...]
Cellist Jody Redhage Ferber is a passionate proponent of creative live music that blurs genres and connects the sensitivity of chamber music and the spontaneous, in-the-moment magic of jazz improvisation. Over the past 18 years of working as a professional [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and pianist Taylor Eigsti. A prolific leader and sideman, Eigsti has played with a massive cross section of the jazz landscape – most closely Terence Blanchard, Gretchen Parlato, Ben Wendel, [...]
Lisa Hilton is an American pianist whose music draws on classic American jazz greats such as Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, and Count Basie, as well as blues heroes Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson. She is a prolific composer [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and drummer Rodrigo Recabarren, pianist Yago Vazquez, and bassist Pablo Menares. Recabarren and Menares hail from Argentina, Vazquez from Spain. Their new album, Familia, was released 23 February via Greenleaf [...]
Jazz-soul vocalist Sarah Jane Morris has released 15 albums over the last 30 years becoming one of Britain’s great jazz-soul vocalists since first finding fame in the 80s with bands like The Republic, Happy End and The Communards. She has [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and pianist and B-3 organist Mike LeDonne, one of the undisputed greats on both instruments. His latest album, Wonderful, a collaboration between his Groover Quartet and a gospel choir, was [...]
Fleurine is a Dutch-born, internationally renowned jazz vocalist. Placing her own unconventional spin on pop, jazz and Brazilian repertoire, she is also a well-respected composer and lyricist, having written lyrics to compositions by Thelonious Monk, Kenny Dorham, Ray Bryant, Curtis [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and alto saxophonist Jim Snidero, who just released a new trio album, For All We Know, featuring bassist Peter Washington, drummer Joe Farnsworth, and no chordal instrument. It was released [...]
Julie Sassoon is a Manchester-born pianist and composer. She came to the attention of critics and audiences in 2000, when she formed the remarkable ‘Azilut!’ trio with drummer Bart van Helsdingen and reeds player Lothar Ohlmeier. Whether touring with Max [...]
This week’s edition of Mondays with Morgan is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and the superlative trumpeter and composer Jim Rotondi. His new album, Finesse, was released on 9 February. Jim Rotondi defines the word ‘finesse’ as “attention [...]
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. [...]
