Late-June sees the release of Tricko, Kit Downes’ new duo album with cellist Lucy Railton.

Pianist Downes, who also plays organ on the album, and Railton first met while students at the Royal Academy of Music, and the cellist has since appeared in the Troyka player’s quintet album Light From Old Stars (2013), contributing memorably on the highly effective tribute to a lost leader of Swedish jazz on the track ‘Jan Johansson.’

The pair are playing a concert together at Kings Place in London on 6 June ahead of release as part of a double bill that is completed by the appearance of Downes’ trio.

Tricko is issued by the Coup Perdu label and you can view a video, above top, which further relates some of the background to the album.