Solo & Group Releases


Another View

2025 (Northern Spy Records)

something we once knew, tilt

2024 (Dear Life Records)

We Fell In Turn

2023 (AKP Recordings)

Regrowth

2022 (New Amsterdam Records)

In Bloom

2019 (self-released)

Live Sessions


Solo performance: “Held In / Stillness in Hand” and “Recollections from Shore”

new sounds, WNYC (2023)

Kalia Vandever Quartet: Regrowth Live

The Jazz Gallery, NYC (2022)

The Big Takeover, 2025

“A bravura accomplishment, Another View lifts Kalia Vandever to the next level of greatness.”

The Quietus, 2024

“Simple in components yet profound in effect, she has a rare knack for crafting music which is quiet and subtle yet moving and consuming.”

Solo concert

Ancienne Belgique, Brussels (2024)

Kalia Vandever Quartet: In My Dream House

Roulette, NYC (2024)

Selected Press


The Wire, 2025

“Vandever has never sounded more assured and in control of her many strengths.”

Downbeat, 2025

“Kalia Vandever posses a warm, burgundy tone on trombone with which to animate rueful, languid melodies and measured improvisations.”

The Wire, 2024

“Each breath emerging from her instrument evokes a lifetime’s journey.”

Bandcamp, 2023

“The record gives off an improvisational spontaneity while also sounding structured and in control.”

Pitchfork, 2022

“Vandever illuminates a relaxed and sumptuous corner of her own world with her brassy billows, while touches of piano and percussion bring earthiness to her ebullient rays.”

15 Questions Interview, 2023

“Token Girl” essay, 2018