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Musician

Kit Downes

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After studying at both the Purcell School of Music and the Royal Academy of Music - Kit now plays regularly with his own trio, Stan Sulzman, Troyka, The Golden Age of Steam, Sam Crockatt and Clark Tracey - and has played with Joe Locke, Gilad Atzmon, Empirical, Gerard Presencer, Seb Rochford, Ian Ballamy, Peter Ind, Gwyneth Herbert, John Warren and Eugene Skeef. He has also performed with leading British bands Fraud, Asaf Sirkis’ Inner Noise, Gilad Atzmon’s Orient House Ensemble, Acoustic Ladyland, Nostalgia 77, 2000 Black, Silhouette Brown and Dennis Rollins’ Badbone and Co. He has also worked with up and coming Composer / Songwriter Micachu, with whome he recorded in Abbey Road for Matthew Herbert, recorded for BBC Radio 6 and played at the Sonar Music Festival ’07 in Barcelona

Album

Fiend

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Monks; Fiend Bypass; Faster than Light; Countdown; Liability; Sun flex; Neglecting Number One.

Album

Ett Omaka Par

Label: Sts|sts Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: början; hopp; tvivel; tro; midnattssol; älvdans; slutet

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Santiago Leibson, Nicholas Payton, Ronny Graupe, Polar Bear & More

Read "Santiago Leibson, Nicholas Payton, Ronny Graupe, Polar Bear & More" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


Enjoy another batch of wonderful recent releases which reshuffle long-time collaborators into fresh configurations, as well as the reissues of two seminal albums by Polar Bear. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (featuring Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Nicholas Payton featuring Esperanza Spalding, Karriem Riggins) “Gold Dust Black Magic ...

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Article: Live Review

Siena Jazz 2025

Read "Siena Jazz 2025" reviewed by Paolo Peviani


Siena Jazz--International Summer Workshop--55th Edition Siena Jazz International Academy Siena, Italy July 26-August 7, 2025 Fifty-five editions, more than ninety students from around the globe, and some thirty faculty members who are also acclaimed performers on the international scene. Listing them all is not mere name-dropping, but a way to ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Several Silent Ways & More

Read "Several Silent Ways & More" reviewed by Bob Osborne


The arrival of a new Anthony Wilson album with his interpretation of Joe Zawinul's “In A Silent Way" lead me to dig out other versions--a live rendition by Weather Report plus the two versions from the The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions box set release by Miles Davis. Zawinul's haunting melody is the centrepiece of ...

Article: Live Review

Siena Jazz - International Summer Workshop – 55a Edizione

Read "Siena Jazz - International Summer Workshop – 55a Edizione" reviewed by Paolo Peviani


Siena Jazz--International Summer Workshop--55a Edizione Siena Jazz International Academy Siena 26 luglio--7 agosto 2025 Cinquantacinque edizioni, oltre novanta studenti provenienti da ogni parte del mondo, una trentina di docenti che sono anche affermati musicisti in ambito internazionale. Li elenchiamo tutti, non per gusto declamatorio, ma per dare contezza della portata dei ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Louis Moholo Moholo, Sven Åke Johansson, Olie Brice & Ville Lahteenmaki Trio

Read "Louis Moholo Moholo, Sven Åke Johansson, Olie Brice & Ville Lahteenmaki Trio" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


The final tunes of this episode of One Man's Jazz are memorials to two of the most important drummers in creative music who passed away within days of each other in June, and they're honoured in this episode. Louis Moholo Moholo and Sven Åke Johansson came from very different places; Moholo Moholo was the last living ...

Article: Live Review

Südtirol JazzFestival Alto Adige 2025

Read "Südtirol JazzFestival Alto Adige 2025" reviewed by Libero Farnè


Südtirol JazzFestival Alto Adige 2025 Varie sedi Bolzano e provincia 27 giugno--6 luglio 2025 Il Südtirol Jazzfestival Alto Adige si conferma un tipico festival “di confine." Manifestazione bilingue, come denuncia la sua stessa denominazione, o meglio tri-lingue per l'uso sistematico anche dell'inglese sul programma cartaceo, nelle presentazioni dei concerti e nelle ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Ches Smith, Enemy, Matt Ulery, Russ Johnson & More

Read "Ches Smith, Enemy, Matt Ulery, Russ Johnson & More" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


"Looking back to look forward" could be the motto of this playlist. It kicks off with a blaxploitation tinged scorcher of a song from an upcoming Charles Kynard re-release, followed by a live performance in which Enemy (Kit Downes, Petter Eldh, James Maddren) celebrate a decade of music-making. Also included, an unearthed gem featuring a 2009 ...


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