Medna Roso (Chisholm / PJEV / Downes)
Artist biography Kit Downes
With an indescribable versatility, never-ending curiosity and not least a stupendous technique on the piano, keyboard, and organ, 37-year-old Kit Downes has become a type of figurehead of the new London jazz scene. The boundaries of which he has long broken free from: Downes has been one of Europe’s most popular musicians for years. Alongside his own trios – the work of which ECM is, meanwhile, equally as happy to release as his organ work Obsidian – he now also works with, amongst others, the German Pablo Held, Nils Wogram and Benny Greb, Dutch guitarist Rainier Baas, Swedish bassist Petter Eldh and French drummer Sylvain Darrifourcq. Downes has recently also become a member of the new Monkey Mind band of Finnish trumpeter Verneri Pohjola.
Artist biography Hayden Chisholm
In the search for the most significant New Zealand jazz musician you inevitably come across the saxophonist Hayden Chisholm even though the 48-year-old studied in half the world and ended up settling in Cologne. In the nineties he made a name for himself with Nils Wogram’s Root 70, by accompanying James Taylor and with his debut album “Circe”. Since then, the award-winning sound aesthete who often works with Sebastian Gramss has been capturing the attention with special projects for example the two 13 CD boxes “View of Hearts” and “Cusp Of Oblivion” or as a protagonist in the documentary film “Sound of Heimat – Deutschland singt”.