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Album

Ghosts of Us

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Ghosts of Us; Respire; In Lieu of Certainty, Movement; When It Rains; When the World is Young; Home.

Album

Better Worlds

By Matt Peterson

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Better Worlds; 100 Pound Football League; Zeke; Petrichor; Blackbird; Language of the Unheard; Solar Minimum; Hiraeth; Ravenna Park; Ohana; Forrest.

Article: Album Review

Chicago pianist Matt Peterson is a versatile artist who defies genres. He is both an accomplished, bop-based improviser as well as a sensitive interpreter of the Western classical tradition. Both elements of his style come together on the exuberant and captivating Better Worlds, a collection of 10 of his originals as well as a unique arrangement ...

Album

Desafío Candente

By Gustavo Cortiñas

Label: Woolgathering Records
Released: 2021

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Musician

Kitt Lyles

Born: September 5, 1990

Kitt Lyles – Bassist, Composer, Arranger, Educator & Bandleader A graduate of Northwestern University (BM Jazz Studies, 2013), Kitt Lyles is an active performer, composer and educator in the Chicago jazz community. His performing career has brought him to play renowned jazz clubs around North America, Latin America and Asia, as well as major festivals such as the Chicago Jazz Festival (Chicago, IL), Festival Espontáneo (Chiapas, MX) and the Billy Strayhorn Jazz Festival (Chicago, IL). In 2015, Lyles released his debut album, “Real Talk”, featuring all original compositions; “it’s success rests as much on his skills as a writer as his serving as a beacon for the sextet's able rhythm section…his colourful themes… are by and large bright and engaging” (Jack Bowers, All About Jazz)

Article: Album Review

Erik Skov: Liminality

Read "Liminality" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 2, 2019

Liminality is defined as “occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold." Guitarist Erik Skov had a good idea: infuse his debut album with a certain amount of liminality (ambivalence) in the form of eight long-form compositions designed to lend his able sextet weighty meat on which to chew.

Album

Real Talk

By Kitt Lyles

Label: Saluda Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Gone by Now; Snowfall on Carolina; Real Talk; Though the Steady Hand May Tremble; Moving Forward, Looking Backward; Blues for the Mountain; Can’t Keep Living This Way; A Desperate Heart’s Last Stand.

Article: Album Review

Kitt Lyles: Real Talk

Read "Real Talk" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
May 23, 2016

An active performer and educator in the Chicago jazz community, young bassist Kitt Lyles is a graduate of Northwestern University with a degree in Jazz Studies and has performed in venues throughout North America, Latin America and Asia. A sideman on various other recordings, Lyles introduces his debut recording as leader on Real Talk presenting eight ...

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Kitt Lyles: Real Talk

Read "Real Talk" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
May 20, 2016

For his debut recording bassist/composer Kitt Lyles draws on his love for the jazz tradition, as well as southern folk and blues. A South Carolina native now residing in Chicago, he leads a working sextet (with one additional player on two tracks) through a varied program of originals. The title tune is built on a vamp, ...

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Kitt Lyles: Real Talk

Read "Real Talk" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
January 25, 2016

Real Talk is the debut album for young South Carolina-bred bassist Kitt Lyles who earned a degree in Jazz Studies from Northwestern University in 2013. As all the compositions are Lyles,' its success rests as much on his skills as a writer as his serving as a beacon for the sextet's able rhythm section. How does ...