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Kit Downes Trio: Quiet Tiger

Read "Quiet Tiger" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
March 1, 2011

The Kit Downes Trio's first album, Golden (Basho Records, 2009), won a Mercury Music Prize nomination and put the group firmly at the forefront of British jazz. Quiet Tiger finds the Trio eager to move forward, redefining its sound. Not content to rest on the laurels garnered by Golden, pianist and composer Downes has augmented the ...

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Kit Downes Trio: Quiet Tiger

Read "Quiet Tiger" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
February 28, 2011

When it's time to follow up an album nominated for a major, mainstream award such as Britain's Mercury Prize, jazz artists face a conundrum. Having enjoyed a year or so of unprecedented publicity, and keen to keep it coming, the choice is between a carbon copy of the nominated album, designed to maintain the lucrative, but ...

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Kit Downes Trio: Golden

by Bruce Lindsay
January 10, 2010

Golden is the first album by the Kit Downes Trio--and it provides plenty of evidence to support the growing reputations of these three young musicians. The trio, led by pianist Kit Downes, has been together since 2005 when its members were in the early stages of their studies at the Royal Academy of Music. The quality ...