Kris Goessens passed away on Wednesday August 21st, aged 46. He apparently made an end to his life.
He studied with Kenny Werner and Gary Peacock and worked with Bob Brookmeyer, Lee Konitz, Gary Peacock, Adam Nussbaum, Joe Lovano & Jim Hall.
More about his work can be read
here and
here.
Here's a fine appreciation by Bob Brookmeyer from his liner notes for his (Brookmeyer's) Grammy-nominated 2004 Album Get Well Soon :
"Kris Goessens is one of the world's best kept secrets, something he
and I hope to alter soon, playing duo concert tours. He has a depth of
feeling and touch that I find unequaled by anyone I have heard. He also
has a quiet daring, use of space and register that break accepted
barriers AND, patience, to allow an idea to unfold and fully speak. His
language is his and he feels almost painfully the act of creation. I am
unashamedly biased... My bias, however, is well founded and rarely
given".
You can check him out here in a solo from a concert in Korea.
R.I.P. Kris Goessens
