Jazz Articles about Kit Watkins

Kit Watkins: The Unseen

by AAJ Staff
July 1, 2001

This sparkling album by longtime ambient/jazz composer Kit Watkins is a summer vacation on a CD, filled with warmth and charm. Watkins plays a wide variety of instruments, acoustic, electronically synthesized, and everywhere in between, and gives us an equally wide variety of pieces in this album. Though it's dated 2000, this work is actually mostly from the mid-90s, with one earlier piece, “Kaleidoscope" from 1985.

For years Watkins has been spinning an urbane mix of jazz, ambient, and echoes ...