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Musician

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

Still Waters

By Niklas Lukassen

Label: Heartcore Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: The Deep; Estuary; Metamorphosis; Palisade (feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel & Geoffroy De Masure); Karma (feat. Wanja Slavin); To Climb A Mountain; Interlude (feat. Céline Rudolph); The Traveller (feat. Wanja Slavin); Brother; Rainbow Surfer (feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel); Luna; Still Waters Run Deep

Album

Entrance

By Nicolas Leirtrø's Action Now!

Label: Sauajazz
Released: 2026
Track listing: Entrance; Darkness; Errantry; Pitch Black White Noise; Shapes of Noise for Double Bass; Action Now; Organ Cycle; End Dance

Article: Album Review

Sam Norris: Wood/Gold - Solo Saxophone Volume 1

Read "Wood/Gold - Solo Saxophone Volume 1" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
June 23, 2026

This is music where you need to embrace the journey, not the destination: The music might not have a clear beginning, middle, and end in the traditional sense; enjoying the moment-to-moment unfolding of sounds and ideas is the purpose. Sometimes the act of listening to a saxophone is rewarded because the musician wants to ...

Song of the Day

Palisade

April 24, 2026

Album: Still Waters
By Niklas Lukassen
Label: Heartcore Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 06:21

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Camila Nebbia, Nick Fraser Trio & Bruno Bode

by Maurice Hogue
April 22, 2026

The spotlight's on Argentinean saxophonist Camila Nebbia and her increasing recognition as one of the finest improvising saxophonists out there today. Her newest album is Noche Y Niebla, recorded with fellow Argentinean reedist Luis Nacht. Their contrasting styles are perfectly matched. Meanwhile her star grows with a pair of nominations for a German Jazz Prize, since ...

Article: Album Review

Ben Wendel: BaRcoDe

by Neil Duggan
April 3, 2026

BaRcoDe marks the formation of a new ensemble and the debut album from tenor saxophonist Ben Wendel. An electroacoustic project for saxophone and mallets, it brings together a stellar cast of contemporary vibraphonists and percussionists in Joel Ross, Simon Moullier, Patricia Brennan and Juan Diego Villalobos. A two-time Grammy nominee and co-founder of Kneebody, ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Pianist Noah Stoneman

by AAJ Staff
March 30, 2026

Meet Noah Stoneman Noah Stoneman is a pianist and composer from London who has been based in New York City for the past three years. His career has already seen him collaborate with master musicians from all walks of musical life, and he is intent on keeping this diversity of creativity as a fixture of his ...

Article: Album Review

Niklas Lukassen: Still Waters

Read "Still Waters" reviewed by Konstantin N. Rega

by Konstantin N. Rega
March 23, 2026

Multi-instrumentalist Niklas Lukassen spins a pleasant mix of tunes on Still Waters. Joined by a stellar team, including saxophonist Ben van Gelder, pianist Kit Downes and drummer Francesco Ciniglio (as well as several others spotted throughout), the quartet moves with the ease of skilled swimmers through the music. An internationally influenced album, the music reflects his own life experiences of ...