Solo & Group Releases
Mana
2026 (International Anthem Recording Co.)
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: selections from Mana
KEXP (2026)
Solo concert
Ancienne Belgique, Brussels (2024)
Kalia Vandever Quartet: Regrowth Live
The Jazz Gallery, NYC (2022)
15 Questions Interview, 2023
Solo performance: “Held In / Stillness in Hand” and “Recollections from Shore”
new sounds, WNYC (2023)
Kalia Vandever Quartet: In My Dream House
Roulette, NYC (2024)
Selected Press
The Guardian, 2026
“There’s a rain-on-window stillness to the Brooklyn-based trombonist’s debut for acclaimed jazz label International Anthem, their ruminative, searching notes paired with steady, melancholic piano.”
Downbeat, 2026
“Vandever ultimately delivers a tantalizing window into the continued explorations of an evolving musicality.”
Downbeat Rising Star Trombonist of the Year
JazzTimes, 2026
“Warmly plush minimalism, droning tonality, loopy meditativeness and pedal-pushed swelling ambience that, with each album, has only grown more mature, modally melodic and increasingly thematic-dramatic.”
The Wire, 2024
“Each breath emerging from [their] instrument evokes a lifetime’s journey.”
Downbeat, 2025
“Kalia Vandever possesses a warm, burgundy tone on trombone with which to animate rueful, languid melodies and measured improvisations.”
The Wire, 2025
“Vandever has never sounded more assured and in control of [their] many strengths.”
The Quietus, 2024
“Simple in components yet profound in effect, Kalia has a rare knack for crafting music which is quiet and subtle yet moving and consuming.”
The Big Takeover, 2025
“A bravura accomplishment, Another View lifts Kalia Vandever to the next level of greatness.”
Pitchfork, 2022
“Vandever illuminates a relaxed and sumptuous corner of [their] own world with [their] brassy billows, while touches of piano and percussion bring earthiness to [their] ebullient rays.”
Bandcamp, 2023
“The record gives off an improvisational spontaneity while also sounding structured and in control.”