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Kirby’s card carrying legend status was cemented in 2016 through his arrangement and playing on Solange’s seminal A Seat at the Table, for which Kirby’s keyboard arrangements laid a path for future of the soul. Solange tapped him once again for work on her most recent album, When I Get Home, across which his work is even more pervasive. That collaboration is just the tip of crystal iceberg that is Kirby’s pedigree.

He was mentored by jazz bassist John Clayton, himself a protege of Ray Brown and Quincy Jones. He’s lived in Paris to collaborate with provocateur Sebastian Tellier, as part of his live band and a collaborator in their “Mind Gamers” project with Dan Sticker. His instrumental solo albums Travel (2017), a thrilling and deep 3.0 take on exotica, and the aptly-titled Meditations in Music (2018) prove Kirby’s vision to be expansive, leaving very little to wonder why artists like Moses Sumney, Connan Mockasin, Yellow Days, Mark Ronson and Zsela have sought his acumen for the cosmic.