About

Linda Jozefowski is an eclectic swiss flautist, composer and educator, exploring a vaste range of musical directions, from jazz to indian music, electronic, r’n’b, odd grooves, experimental and classical music. Her compositions reveals her deep interest in traditional rhythms and music (in particular Indian African and Middle East music) which she skilfully contextualises and interprets in a modern jazz key.

Linda’s musical training with numerous teachers enabled her to discover a variety of teaching methods. From an early age she revealed her talent for music through a toy piano. After hearing her playing out popular songs on her own, her father, a music passionate, let her take classical piano lessons. Very soon, her strong drive for music led her to experiment and improvise on all instruments beside the piano. Therefore, in 1997  she discovered and started learning the flute by herself. One year later she enrolled at the SMuM in Lugano, where she attended improvisation courses with saxophonist Gabriele Comeglio and a jazz workshop with Giorgio Meuwly.
Linda Jozefowski obtained a Master in Jazz Performance from the Haute Ecole de Musique (HEMu), Lausanne in 2007. She studied with Mathieu Schneider and Sooa Chung and out of the school programm with Günther Wehinger (Basel), Jamie Baum (New York) and Nicola Stilo (Paris).
Fascinated by Indian Classical Music, which she discovered trough the album Shakti by John McLaughlin, in december 2009 she did a two months study in India. There, she attended Konnokol lessons with Rama Mohar Rao and Shantala Subramanian in Madras, and bansouri with Himanshu Nanda at the Haripasad Chaurasia’s  Gurukul School of Music in Bombay. This experience had a big impact on her compositions and led to her first record.

For My Dead Folks (Unit Records 2011) which is deeply inspired by rhythmic elements of India, but also from the music of Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis and drum’n’bass sounds, is featuring vibrafonist Jean-Lou Treboux, drummer Maxence Sibille and double bassist Charly Vilmart.

Beside her own band, the flutist went on stage with various line ups including La Velle, Reggie Jonson, Jaques Schwartz-Bart, Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), Amir ElSaffar, Niko Seibold Elfton Ensemble, Sangoma Everett among others. From 2012 she regularly spent time in Berlin with the porpouse of opening up as an artist and playing with musicians from different backgrounds. The projects she had been involved in there, include the Kenneth Dahl Knudsen Orchestra, Vernon D’Hill, Soultrash, The Joel Holmes Greenhouse Expansion, J.Lamotta,  Marcel Krömker, Nicholas Pax, Antonello Marafioti, Jonathan Bratoeff.  Electronic tracks includes also producers Elbee Bad, Tikogo, Soutrash and others.

Linda Jozefowski has played at X-Jazz Festival (Berlin), Madajazzcar Festival, Cully Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Café, Off Beat Festival Basel, Jazz Festival Willisau (CH), Jazz Parade Festival of Fribourg, Festival Jazz en Revermont, Jazz Contreband Festival, Icogne Jazz Festival (CH), Chorus Lausanne (CH), Hot Club de Lyon (F), AMR (CH), B-Flat Berlin (D), Schlott Berlin (D), Karnaval der Kulturen Festival Berlin (D), Werkstatt der Kulturen Berlin (D), Château Rouge (F) and many other clubs.

Her discography includes the album Special by the singer La Velle (2010, alongside Sangoma Everett, Emyle Spanii and Mathieu Michel), the album Friends by François Lindemann (2011, with Flavio Boltro, Glenn Ferris, Guillaume Perret, Alvin Queen among others), the album We’ll meet in the rain by the Kenneth Dahl Knudsen Orchestra (2016),  the album Soultrash with Kilian Schuldes (2016), the album Suzume by J.Lamotta (2019) and the single Wordz ain’t Good by Polylogue from Sila (2021).

Linda Jozefowski was invited to give a Master Class about indian rhythms at the Madajazzcar Festival (Madagascar) and at the Aalborg University of Music (DK). She also collaborated on the Soundtrack of the Swiss TV Serie T’es pas la seule (2011).

Her second album Focus Natural has been recorded during a residency at La Maison-Matrice, just before the pandemic and also in a state of pregnancy. Featuring drummer Diego Pinera, pianist Malcolm Braff, Marion Rouault on double bass and Domenic Landolf on tenor sax and bass clarinet, the new project combines modern jazz compositions and african-inspired grooves, where rhythmic experiments are the common thread of the band. The Released digitally on January 20, 2023 with Unit Records,  the physical release Tour starts April 19, 2024.

Linda Jozefowski currently lives and works in Basel, Switzerland.