This week's music previews

Loop Festival, LondonPianist Kit Downes, the young Royal Academy graduate who first emerged with the much-acclaimed band Empirical, is one of the influential new British jazz artists on London's Loop Collective's programme. Downes was taught by former Acoustic Ladyland pianist Tom Cawley, and they share a storytelling style with strong links to American star Brad Mehldau. Downes is a team player who broadens the soundscape of his contemporaries' bands, and he appears in saxophonist-composer Sam ...

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