Kit Downes

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About Kit Downes

Kit Downes is a composer, pianist, and organist known for a clean playing style and a bell-like sound in experimental, modal, and post-bop settings. He began with the jazz group Troyka and then led a piano trio on 2009's Mercury Prize-nominated Quiet Tiger. 2013's Light from Old Stars crisscrossed modern jazz and vintage blues, with global rhythms. Obsidian, his 2018 ECM debut, showcased original compositions and improvisations on solo pipe organ. In 2021 he released two duo outings: Premonitions of the Unbuilt City, with pianist Matt Rogers, and Subaerial with cellist Lucy Raiton. Downes returned to the piano trio for 2022's Vermillion.

HOMETOWN
Norwich, England
BORN
26 May 1986
GENRE
Jazz

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