Chris Kibble is a British

United Kingdom

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 jazz

Jazz

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 musician

Musician

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. He attended Sedgehill

Sedgehill

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 Secondary School

Secondary school

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 in south-east London

London

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, England

England

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Chris started out by gigging with jazz fusion

Jazz fusion

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 band Kafo in 1985, then joined acid jazz

Acid jazz

Acid jazz is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, particularly looped beats. It developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic dance: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers, Donald Byrd and Grant Green are...

 band Snowboy

Snowboy

Snowboy is a UK-based Afro Cuban percussionist, bandleader, DJ, music critic, journalist and music promoter.Featured in the Who's Who of Latin American Music, Snowboy has released 11 albums and 17 singles in a career that spans over 15 years and has taken him and his authentic Afro-Cuban sound to...

  in 1987.

Chris has also gigged with the following bands on the London music scene: Robin Jones Latin Jazz Sextet, Ricardo de Santos, Charlie Palmieri

Charlie Palmieri

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, Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers

Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers

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, Gordon Smith, Fuzz Against Junk, Terry Callier

Terry Callier

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, Don Rendell

Don Rendell

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, and King Salsa.

Works

Chris has played on:

• Freedom Principle: “Acid Jazz & Other Illicit Grooves” (1989)
• Snowboy: "Ritmo Snowbo" (1989), "Descara Mambito" (1991), and "Somethings Coming" (1993)
• M People
  M People
  M People are a British house music act from Manchester, who formed in 1990 and achieved success throughout most of the 1990s. The name M People is from the initials of Mike Pickering, who formed the group.-Career:...
  
  : “Elegant Slumming
  Elegant Slumming
  Elegant Slumming is the second album by British house music band M People. It was released on 4 October 1993 charting and peaking at number 2 on the UK Album Chart and spent 87 weeks in the Top 75...
  
  ” (1994)
• Don Rendell
  Don Rendell
  Donald Percy 'Don' Rendell is an English jazz musician and arranger, specialising on tenor saxophone, but also playing soprano saxophone, flute, and clarinet....
  
  : “What Am I Here For?” (1996)
• Robin Jones Latin Jazz Sextet: “Latin Underground” (1999)
• Robin Jones & King Salsa: “Changó” (1999)
• Nuphonic: “Vol. 4” (2001)
• Kayode Olajide: “Iba” (2001)
• Robin Jones: “Presents Afro-Cuban Rhythms” (2001)
• Terry Callier
  Terry Callier
  Terrence O. Callier, known as Terry Callier is an American jazz, soul and folk guitarist and singer-songwriter.-Life and career:...
  
  : “Lookin' Out” (2004)

He has his own outfit called “Peckham Royalty” with bassist/producer Gordon Smith; they have released an EP entitled “Minor Villain” (2002).

Since 2008, Chris has been a member of the Screened Music Network.