Kit Downes Trio: Golden | CD review

(Basho)British pianist Kit Downes, formerly of Empirical, is beginning to get the kind of enthusiastic attention Gwilym Simcock did on his emergence a few years before - but for a more economical jazz-derived style with a more audible connection to his Royal Academy teacher Tom Cawley's fascination with Brad Mehldau. This trio session, like the Simcock album, features drummer James Maddren, plus bassist Calum Gourlay. If Simcock has a flaw, it's that his erudition and virtuosity give him so many...

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