Bahghi / Imaginarium / Teis Semey Quintet / Amarea /
Bahghi / Imaginarium / Teis Semey Quintet / Amarea /
Juliana Martina / Matthias van den Brande Trio / Valvetronic / Ella Zirina Trio /
Juliana Martina / Matthias van den Brande Trio / Valvetronic / Ella Zirina Trio /
Kotokid / Maria Mendes / Liva Dumpe Quintet / Diana Dzhabbar Quartet /
Kotokid / Maria Mendes / Liva Dumpe Quintet / Diana Dzhabbar Quartet /
Promo Fund 2.0
New Amsterdam Jazz works with artists around their upcoming releases. NAJ offers financial support for a promo package tailored to the needs of the recipients.
Diana Dzhabbar Quartet
Born and raised in a small Ukrainian town, Diana is an African-Ukrainian multi-instrumentalist. She is featured on Jose James's album "On&On" and is a member of the Rotterdam-based band "Brintex Collective". Next, Diana collaborated with many artists such as Benjamin Herman, Peter Beets, Han Bennink, Ernst Glerum, and Jose James’. Currently, Diana is a student at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, studying with Simon Rigter, Jasper Blom, and Ben van Gelder.
Diana is working on her quartet debut album featuring Micah Graves (keys), Joop de Graaf (electric bass), and Teunis Loot (drums). The four of them mix jazz and hip-hop and take following in the footsteps of Butcher Brown, Braxton Cook, etc.
Matthias van den Brande Trio
Matthias Van den Brande is a young saxophone player and composer/arranger with already an interesting story. Having lived and studied in various corners of the world, he developed a strong voice and personality in the jazz idiom and beyond. Currently, Matthias is performing with his award-winning trio featuring some of Europe's most prolific musicians: Tijs Klaassen (bass) and Wouter Kühne (drums). They released their debut album 'Three Sides of a Coin' in 2023, which was enthusiastically received during an international release tour in the same year.
With their new show ‘Fields of Color’, they draw inspiration from the fabulous paintings of Mark Rothko, the 20th-century grandmaster of abstract expressionism. Especially for this new project, the incomparable trumpeter Jean-Paul Estiévenart joins the trio.
Imaginarium
The Imaginarium is a place where reality and fiction fuse into one. That is the goal of ‘’Imaginarium’’ to intertwine the worlds of Jazz, Dub, and club culture.
With a musical career that spans from writing string arrangements for Disney+ series to playing, producing, and writing for bands including Dragonfruit, Peter Somuah Group, and Y.O.P.E that have enjoyed press acclaim, international radio play and festivals like North Sea Jazz and Eurosonic Noorderslag, the new project encapsulates all of these influences into a kaleidoscope of genres that blends jazz, funk, dub, afrobeat, and cinematic elements resulting in a colorful and rich sound that would work just as well in a club setting as outside in nature. With an album on the way for early 2024, Imaginarium is one to keep an eye on.
Ella Zirina Trio
Ella Zirina (1997) is a jazz guitarist, composer and bandleader from Latvia, with a passion for the different textures and timbres of her instrument. Her compositions are built out of melodic improvisations, resulting in a personal and emotional sonic environment. In 2022 she released a debut studio album, Intertwined (Edison Jazz Award nominated) which features her work for a string quartet and saxophonist Tineke Postma on a few tunes. Zirina’s Trio has been awarded the first prize in the 7 Virtual Jazz Club Competition.
In 2024 she will focus on recording and releasing her second trio album featuring David Macchione, Eloi Pascual, Ton Felices, and Jamie Peet, and a string quartet (Joshua Herwig, Liga Zirina, Ida Weidner, Noah Hassler Forest) and a guest solist.
Bahghi
Bahghi is a multifaceted artist, celebrated as a singer-songwriter, musician, and producer. Born and raised in an Eritrean household in Amsterdam and intrigued by the rich tapestry of musical genres, Bahghi's childhood home exposed her to a diverse range of sounds, from European classical to African(-American) music and contemporary popular genres.
Bahghi's artistic endeavors culminated in the release of her live debut album, "All One," on November 11th, 2022. Featuring collaborations with jazz luminaries Ronald Snijders and Rory Ronde, the album showcases Bahghi's ability to seamlessly blend soothing melodies with conscious and uplifting lyrics.
Teis Semey Quintet
The “Bad Boy of Dutch Jazz” (Trouw”), guitarist Teis Semey, has become one of the newest names to take center focus across the European jazz scene. If with the punk-infused avant-garde of the Teis Semey Quintet, the choral folky Midnight Mess or the electro/acoustic Raw Fish, Semey’s storm-in-with-guns-blazing attitude to music has earned him his spot as one of the most important young up-coming names in the European jazz scene in 2023.
The “rising star” (NRC) has five albums behind him, and there is no sign of stopping. This year he is released the Midnight Mess vol 1, and is set to release the debut of Raw Fish in April 2024, as well as a new album with the Teis Semey Quintet.
Valvetronic
Valvetronic is the boldest festival brass band from the Netherlands, based on and inspired by EDM and hip-hop music. Music to dance on played on some drums and a lot of horns. Valvetronic presents a bold, loud, and energetic show that will make you dance and jump for the whole night, without a doubt.
The band is taking an adventurous sidestep by making an album with hip-hop music. For each song, they invited rappers and vocalists to write lyrics to new compositions. Amongst others, guest artists are Ntjam Rosie, Kay Slice, JAÏNDA, Louisa Brunhoso, and Tano Rivers. By combining hip-hop and brass, Valvetronic is the first brass band in the Netherlands to make an album such as this one.
Maria Mendes
Maria Mendes is a Grammy-nominated Portuguese vocalist/composer working and living in the Netherlands for 15 years. Mendes has been professionally active in jazz and world music since 2006 and has now released four albums: Along the Road (2012), Innocentia (2015), Close To Me (2019), and Saudade, Color of Love (2022). For the album “Close To Me” Mendes received an Edison Jazz Award in the National Jazz Vocal category in 2020.
In 2025 she will be releasing her 5th album focussing on the work of various female poets from the past 50 years. Celebrating the modern woman and inclusivity of the languages and cultural costumes, celebrating our empowerment through the power of the spoken and sung word.
Lucas Figueiredo Santana ft. Adam Quartet
Versatility, energy, and musicality define Lucas Figueiredo Santana, 1993. Saxophone player but also a clarinet and flute player, the young Brazilian musician based in Amsterdam has shown a unique way to express himself through music, crossing over the Brazilian samba-jazz, Bossa Nova, and Choro with Jazz.
Lucas Santana, featuring the Adam Quartet, invites audiences on a musical journey to Brazil, seamlessly blending traditional Brazilian folk rhythms with classical music. Originally composed for the string quartet of Concertgebouw, the project evolved in 2023 when Santana extended an invitation to collaborate with the Adam Quartet, an emerging classical ensemble based in Amsterdam.
Juliana Martina
Juliana Martina is a Caribbean Dutch singer, composer, and bandleader of Colombian descent based in Rotterdam, where she graduated Cum Laude from her studies at Codarts. Juliana's compositions are a unique blend of contemporary jazz with South American and Caribbean elements, weaving together an exquisite palette of influences. Her latest work serves as a creative exploration of the vast possibilities that Juliana's rich background offers. Having written her compositions in both Spanish and Papiamentu, the native language of the Dutch Antilles, Juliana offers a unique proposition of contemporary (Latin) jazz.
In 2024 she will be touring her newly released album ‘Laman’ all over the Netherlands
Liva Dumpe Quintet
Līva Dumpe is a vocalist and composer from Latvia, currently based in Amsterdam. Born and raised in a musical household, she soon learned to express herself through piano playing, singing, and songwriting. Throughout the years in Amsterdam, young vocalist has taken part in wide variety of projects, such as, Fuensanta Ensamble grande, Chai Masters, Marta Arpini Pocket Orchestra and Kika Sprangers Large Ensemble. Recently, she had a chance to work and perform with Louis Cole and the Metropole Orchestra.
In 2024, Liva will be focusing on her debut record as a bandleader, singer, pianist and composer. Her quintet features Ketija Ringa-Karahona (flute), Massimo Imperatore (guitar), Omer Govreen (double bass) and Ilia Rayskin (drums).
Kotokid
Imagine combining 80ies jazz-fusion and contemporary trip-hop. Right in the sweet spot of those two, lies the music of Amsterdam-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Freek Mulder aka kotokid. What you get is face-melting harmonies over murderous drums, vast synth-scapes, and fragile piano ballads. Performing live, kotokid plays bass while controlling a spaceship of synths, accompanied by guitar wizard Maarten Cima, and drummer beast Jonathan Szegedi. Perfectly in tune with their electronics, this trio manages to produce a DJ-scaring wall of sound, while maintaining the musical freedom and energy of a fusion band.
After releasing his first EP Fledge in 2022, kotokid played all over the Netherlands at venues like Bimhuis, BIRD, and Injazz, with his trio. Playing new music and experimenting with different setups, the band started to really live up to their full potential. In 2023 they bottled up all that goodness into a new record, which is to come out in spring 2024.
Amarea
Born in Vigo, Spain, Eloi Pascual Nogué started his journey on the drums at the age of 3, playing along to AC/DC and Queen. Starting out in a classical conservatory, Eloi started getting interested in jazz, taking drum lessons with Iago Fernández and ensemble lessons at SPJ Pontevedra. Three years later, he moved to the Netherlands to study drums at Conservatorium van Amsterdam, graduating in 2021.
His trio, Amarea, features pianist Chaerin Im (Sun Mi Hong quintet) and electric bassist Matteo Mazzù (Waan, Chai Masters). Together they focus on compositions by the hand of Pascual, which aim to bring together his wide musical inspirations and love for improvisation, forming a little universe in itself to stimulate their creativity.