KIT DOWNES
Genres: Jazz Related Improv, Composition, Post Bop, Third Stream, World Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz, 21st Century Modern • United Kingdom

For Kit Downes / Petter Eldh / James Maddren trio (aka Enemy) search under "Enemy". Kit Downes is a British jazz and classical composer, pianist, and organist, known for a clean playing style and bell-like sound in experimental, modal, and post-bop settings. His compositions lean heavily on polychromatic investigation and timbral discipline. He also plays cello. He began his career as a founding member of the jazz group Troyka, and is a first-call sideman who has worked alongside Gilad Atzmon, Ben Lamdin, and Seb Rochford, among many others. He led a jazz piano trio for 2009's Quiet Tiger, which was nominated for a Mercury Prize. 2013's Light from Old Stars crisscrossed modern jazz, vintage Delta blues, and global rhythms. His 2018 ECM debut, the solo Obsidian, showcased his solo skills on church pipe organs in original compositions, folk songs, and improvisations. In 2021 he released two vanguard classical duet outings: read more...