K T Reeder has been recognised as 'one of 25 of the artists who have engineered the cultural transformation of British jazz over the past four decades' in a seminal book on British Jazz by David Burke (Giant Steps: Diverse Journeys in British Jazz - 2021)

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'So much free improv has become a closed stylistic paddock decades after its inception, this deliberate oddness is actually a good thing, and we encourage all readers with a taste for the leftfield to seek Reeder out”

David Murphy – Nightshift Magazine – October 2019

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'It takes a lot to rethink an idea that others have turned their backs on, to strip something back to the bone and then rebuild it anew, but this is exactly what Kris T. Reader has sought to do. In an approach referred to as “future music”, and trombonist Reader manages to take the solid grounding of dance and merge with it the grit of improvisation. In this it helps that he is in control of both directions, so the blend works compositionally as a whole’ – 5 out of 5

Alfie Cooke – Katali Editions Publications – March 2020

Music
 
Kris T Reeder has produced or been credited with over 200 releases to date ranging from Experimental Music, Noise Music, Free Jazz, Free Improvisation, Progressive and Alternative music. Kris T Reeder is signed to a number of labels operating across the globe including: Kalpamantra (UK), Blowpipe Records (NL), Obskyr Records (SWE), Classwar Karaoke (UK), Fatal Noise Action (RU), Nostalgie de la boue (Ivory Coast), Red Light Sound Productions (USA),  and has been part of Musicoin and Choon (run by Gareth Emery).
 
1984ensemble
 
Kris T Reeder founded the 1984ensemble in 2013, a free-improvisation ensemble which toured the UK in 2014 and 2015.

The Cosmic Asunder

Kris T Reeder co-founded The Cosmic Asunder in 2016 with Harriet Butler and Gary JC, an ambient experimental group which released an EP in 2017 and performed at the Banbury Friendship Festival in 2017.
 

Jazz-Grime

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Jazz-Grime was invented in 2016 by Trombone Creative Kris T Reeder when he merged Jazz Trombone playing with a Grime style back beat in his single ‘Go On Then’. He further added to this by releasing ‘Time to Fly Take 2’ in 2018.

Future Cool Jazz

Kris T Reeder is a pioneer of Future Cool Jazz and has released three albums in this genre (Future Cool Jazz & Future Cool Jazz 1.2 (2014), Future Cool Jazz 2 (2015) and FUTURECOOLJAZZ3 (2017)) stretching and expanding the genre by merging highly  layered and multi processed backing tracks with solo trombone melodies. 

Garage Jazz

Kris T Reeder is a pioneer of Garage Jazz defined as 'Free or Improvised music created in and around a Garage' (https://garagejazz.weebly.com/). His seminal release in this genre was released through Blowpipe records and is simply called: 'Garage Jazz'.

Noise Trombone

Kris T Reeder is a pioneer of Noise Trombone. In its narrowest sense, Noise Trombone means 'the use of the Trombone as a solo instrument to create highly complex noise pieces'. In the broadest sense Noise Trombone is 'Trombone and Noise generated by a computer or electronic device'. Kris T Reeder has released several pieces in this genre which include a seminal series of self released Cassette tapes (Noise Trombone 1,2 and 3 - recorded in 2015 and 4 recorded in 2020). 1,2 and 3 were acquired by ‎Kansas City Kansas Community College in 2019. 
 
Record Labels
 
Kris T Reeder started his own record label EAF Records in 2013 to release his music and subsequently expanded by starting new labels CGR Records (2016) and TVP Records UK (2017). He amalgamated all of his labels into ELR XL Records in 2018.
 
K84 Institute of Soniciology
 
Kris T Reeder set up the K84 Institute in 2015 to investigate Soniciology which is ‘the artistic study of applied sound in site-specific contexts’.

Future Music Movement

Kris T Reeder established the Future Music Movement in 2018/19 to allow others to share creativity with other like-minded artists. As of April 2020 the group had nearly 900 members from around the world. 

Time to Fly Project

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The Time to Fly Project started in September 2018 as a project to enable artists from around the world to create a remix or response to 'Time to Fly' by KRISG184. The project initially had over 100 members and well over 50 remixes / responses have been produced as of April 2020. One CD album (Time to Fly Project 2018) and one digital album (Time to Fly Project Mega Album (2020)) have been released.