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#FunkyFriday: Kait Dunton & TrioKAIT

When I made this portrait of Kait Dunton 10 years ago, she was a promising young pianist and composer who had just graduated from the University of Virginia. Four years earlier, she had arrived in Charlottesville as a gifted classical pianist, but she thought that her future would be in... Read more →

A Christmas Eve Lagniappe: The Kait Dunton Trio

This doesn't need much of an introduction from me. It's 8 minutes and 32 seconds of bliss from the Kait Dunton Trio. Kait Dunton Trio, "The Way You Look Tonight," by Jerome Kern & Dorothy Fields. Kait Dunton, piano; Cooper Appelt, bass; Jake Reed, drums. * * * Kait is... Read more →

Kait Dunton, "Mountain Suite."

Slow Music for a Fast Food World Kait Dunton must know what she's doing. Either that, or she's ever-so-slightly out of her mind. Because here she is -- amid of the clutter and noise of the internet age -- whispering. Mountain Suite, the mesmerizing new album from the LA-based composer... Read more →