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The “Henry Thoreau of Jazz” Jazziz Magazine
Keyboard innovator Kit Walker thrives on new musical horizons. Although he was in his early years classically trained as a pianist, pipe organist, and composer, Kit wasn’t content to stop there. His musical and spiritual explorations have taken him through a universe of styles and sounds, and he spent many years working with and developing his own personal slant on each of them. His groundbreaking albums for Windham Hill Jazz, “Dancing on the Edge of the World”, and “Fire in the Lake”, released in the late 80’s, helped to broaden the spectrum of contemporary jazz. Both albums received international critical acclaim, high rotation airplay, and made the top 10 of Billboard’s contemporary jazz charts. Many people attest to the fact that these albums still sound as fresh as if released today.
Kit also spent many years developing his mastery of the improvisational jazz vocabulary, and then, while weaving that in with his understanding of classical and contemporary music, and his love of world music from all directions on the globe, he forged a sound uniquely and unmistakably his. A veteran master of electronic instruments and recording technologies, he is also equally at home on acoustic piano, and Hammond B3 organ.
His lifelong spiritual quest has served to imbue his music with a transcendental quality that serves to further dissolve boundaries between genre and musical idiom. As well as his appearances on his own Windham Hill Jazz recordings, and his self-released world/jazz recording, “Freehouse”, he has toured with, and collaborated in productions with numerous luminaries in the jazz
Keyboard innovator Kit Walker thrives on new musical horizons. Although he was in his early years classically trained as a pianist, pipe organist, and composer, Kit wasn’t content to stop there. His musical and spiritual explorations have taken him through a universe of styles and sounds, and he spent many years working with and developing his own personal slant on each of them. His groundbreaking albums for Windham Hill Jazz, “Dancing on the Edge of the World”, and “Fire in the Lake”, released in the late 80’s, helped to broaden the spectrum of contemporary jazz. Both albums received international critical acclaim, high rotation airplay, and made the top 10 of Billboard’s contemporary jazz charts. Many people attest to the fact that these albums still sound as fresh as if released today.
Kit also spent many years developing his mastery of the improvisational jazz vocabulary, and then, while weaving that in with his understanding of classical and contemporary music, and his love of world music from all directions on the globe, he forged a sound uniquely and unmistakably his. A veteran master of electronic instruments and recording technologies, he is also equally at home on acoustic piano, and Hammond B3 organ.
His lifelong spiritual quest has served to imbue his music with a transcendental quality that serves to further dissolve boundaries between genre and musical idiom. As well as his appearances on his own Windham Hill Jazz recordings, and his self-released world/jazz recording, “Freehouse”, he has toured with, and collaborated in productions with numerous luminaries in the jazz
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