Kalia Vandever
Kalia Vandever is a trombonist, composer and vocalist based in New York. Vandever graduated in jazz studies from the Juilliard School in 2017 and works across quartet jazz, solo trombone processed through pedals, and song. Vandever is a founding member of tilt, a Brooklyn collective with Isabel Crespo Pardo and Carmen Quill. After the debut In Bloom (2019) came Regrowth (New Amsterdam, 2022), the solo album We Fell In Turn (AKP Records, 2023) and Another View (Northern Spy, 2025).
Evergreen
First duo album by trombonist Kalia Vandever and DARKSIDE guitarist Dave Harrington, recorded in three rainy days in Los Angeles: brass and guitar between drum machines, samples and quieter, intimate pieces.
Mana
Mana is the International Anthem debut by composer, trombonist and vocalist Kalia Vandever. This new full length carries on the expansive and dazed spirit of their first solo album, We Fell In Turn, while entering a new landscape of spacious songwriting. Vandever’s music has quickly and widely gained traction in the last few years despite the fact that their style has been consistently difficult to pin down, boasting a compositional scope ranging from the cinematic modern jazz of their quartet w…
We Fell In Turn
'We Fell In Turn' is the solo debut from Brooklyn-based trombonist, composer, and quartet leader Kalia Vandever. Vandever, who plays with Harry Styles and Japanese Breakfast, “sculpts her trombone’s golden tones into dazzling compositions” (Pitchfork), writing music that tends to “dip you into a feeling or a pattern or a breathing speed, and keep you there” (The New York Times). In 2022, Vandever released Regrowth, an album that “features the ecstatic, brilliant melodies that have become Vandeve…