Emma-Jean Thackray is a bandleader, multi-instrumentalist, singer, DJ and producer - She studied jazz trumpet at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama under the late British jazz pianist and composer Keith Tippet.
Accompanied by an excellent young band Emma-Jean Thackray plays Wellington on the Sunday 11th Wellington and Auckland on Monday 12th playing an original repertoire that has seen her described as one of the new artists contributing to the new British Jazz movement.
Trevor Reekie spoke to Emma from her home in London.