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Artist
Kait Dunton
12+ albums
jazzpianojazz piano
about
Los Angeles-based pianist and composer Kait Dunton's first album, "Real & Imagined" is now available! Recorded in February of 2008, after completing her Masters of Music in Jazz Piano Performance from the University of North Texas, "Real & Imagined" is an extraordinary debut of her whimsical yet deeply-felt compositional style. An imaginative take on the acoustic jazz piano trio, Kait's original music blends elements of jazz, Latin, folk, and groove genres into an improvisational and compositional voice as quirky as the composer herself. It features Ross Pederson on the drums and Daniel Foose on the bass. Kait Dunton is a California native who, after many years living in Charlottesville, Virginia and Denton, Texas, has now come full circle to live and work in her hometown of Pasadena, California. Kait developed an affinity for jazz at a young age rather ironically: by sight-reading compilations of jazz standards and solos arranged for the piano. Browsing through local record shops (most notably Opus, in Old Town, Pasadena, now, sadly, long gone the way of most independent record stores) led her ear to classic jazz recordings like "Somethin' Else" and "We Three". Not until attending college at the University of Virginia in 2001, however, did she encounter and learn the fundamentals of improvisation under the tutelage of jazz trumpetist and composer, John D'earth - also the director of the UVa Jazz Ensemble. He and Kait struck up a fortuitous friendship, the source of many imp
