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About Me

am studying at the royal academy of music (where im taught by tom cawley and gwilym simcock). i am lucky enough to play with empirical, troyka, martin speake, calum gourlay, james maddren, josh morrison, zhenya strigalev and clark tracy and have played with joe locke, seb rochford, asaf sirkis, gerard presencer, stan sulzman, jeff williams, james allsop and eugene skeef. i have also performed with fraud, acoustic ladyland, nostalgia 77, 2000 black, silhouette brown, asaf sirkis and the inner noise, and dennis rollins’ badbone and co. myself and mica recorded in abbey road earlier this year and played at the sonar music festival ’07 in barcelona. i also play at the con cellar bar where there is amazing music every week from young and exciting bands, and everyone should come down and support this great night! and i have a piano trio with amazing people/musicians - calum gourlay and james maddren....

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Member Since: 12/16/2005
Band Members: Calum Gourlay, James Maddren
Influences: Keith Jarrett, Brad Meldhau, Paul Bley, Herbie Hancock, Monk, Nick Drake, Marc Copeland, Fred Hersch, Bill Evans, Akwesi Mensah, Prefuse 73, Mica, Lennie Tristano, Warne Marsh, Lee Konitz, Wayne Krantz, Wayne Shorter...people like this...
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My Blog

JazzUK (John Fordham) review of my trio Gig@Vortex

"Empirical may be making all the news (see page 13) but that vivid young postbop band's student pianist Kit Downes is about to emerge as a formidable force in his own right. Downes brought a fine trio...
Posted by kit downes on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:42:00 PST

Vortex Review of Organ Trio Gig

"The FatCat Organ Trio (guitarist Dave Preston, keyboard player Kit Downes, drummer Josh Morrison) were billed as 'inspired by the great organ trios', which conjured up expectations of bluesy, barrell...
Posted by kit downes on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:10:00 PST

BBC Norfolk Radio Interview

BBC Norfolk Radio Interview including Empirical music and Troyka tunes...at this link - www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/content/articles/2007/08/20/music_kit_ downes_empirical_aug07_feature.shtml');
Posted by kit downes on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:05:00 PST