Playing tenor, alto, soprano, baritone saxophones; flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo flute and spoken word, Katisse Buckingham endeavors to break down barriers between musical genres and has always resonated with Duke Ellington's famous quote, "There are two kinds of music - good music, and the other kind".

Growing up in Los Angeles, he cites Miles Davis, Run DMC, James Taylor, Malcolm Mclaren, Bach, Cachao, AC/DC, and Weather Report as equally important early influences. Katisse attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. College took him to The Grove School of Music where he studied with the great Rob McConnell. He also studied extensively with woodwind master, Bill Green.

Katisse has performed and/or recorded with Yellowjackets, Prince, Dr. Dre (including The Chronic), Herbie Hancock, Roy Ayers, Andy Summers, Billy Childs, Zawinul Legacy Band, Airto & Flora Purim, LA Guitar Quartet, Brian Auger, Amos Lee, Strunz & Farah, Down To The Bone, Snoop Dog, Rakim, Anderson.Paak, Colin Hay, Ebi, Poncho Sanchez, MSM Schmidt (including Life with Allan Holdsworth and Dave Weckl), Don Grusin, Pete Yorn, John Daversa, Tigran Hamasyan, Paris, Grouplove, The Angel, Snoh Aalegra, Marcos Valle, Mongorama, Jazz on the Latin Side All Stars, Scott Kinsey Group, Gordon Goodwin, Simon Phillips Protocol, Travis Scott, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad (Tribe Called Quest), Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Vardan Ovsepian, Otmaro Ruiz, Ben Wendel, LA Saxophone Union, J.D. Souther, Lyle Workman, Russ Irwin (Aerosmith), Oscar Hernandez, Dave Douglas, David Binney, Hubert Laws, Virgil Donati, Terri Lyne Carrington, Peter Erskine, Jimmy Haslip, Michael Buble, Lionel Richie, Judith Hill, and Vanessa Paradis among others.

He has played on numerous films including (improvising) the "Jazz Flute" scene for the Will Ferrell film Anchorman - The Legend of Ron Burgundy (featured in the Hal Leonard book- 25 Great Flute Solos), the Golden Globe winning score to the Robert Redford film All Is Lost and is a featured soloist on the Universal Pictures animated film Minions, Minions 2, Warner Bros Smallfoot, The Peanuts Movie 2: Snoopy, Come Home, Crazy Rich Asians, La La Land (with John Legend), The Jesus Rolls (sequel to The Big Lebowski), Between Two Ferns- The Movie (including addition composition and orchestration), Sponge Bob 3 (Hans Zimmer), White House Plumbers, among others. Television shows include Our Planet 2 (featured soloist), The Simpsons, Perpetual Grace, Love (Judd Apatow), Queer as Folk, Kenan, The Big Leap, Shadow and Bone, Netflix’s Animal, The Kaminsky Method, The Spoils of Babylon (Will Ferrell), Luke Cage, Chi, Lovecraft Country, Penny Dreadful, Will Trent, among others. League Of Legends (video game). Katisse also composed and performed the 'flute only' score to the film Let's Scare Julie (see Music page for examples).

Clinics and masterclasses at USC, UCLA, Cal State Northridge, University of Montana, Sacramento State, University of Idaho, Cal State Long Beach, Azuza Pacific University, University of Texas at Austin, West Texas A&M, Pomona College, Cal Arts, and University of Miami.

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Katisse plays D'Addario Woodwinds products. On tenor saxophone: Jazz Select Filed #3M reeds, Alto saxophone: Jazz Select Filed #2M reeds, Soprano Saxophone: Hemke #2 1/2 reeds, and Baritone Saxophone: Jazz Select Filed #3S reeds. As well D’Addario Reed Cases, D'Addario Cork Grease, and D’Addario Reserve Mouthpiece Patches (clear).