The Athens-born bassist Kimon Karoutzos, started studying with Tasos Kazaglis. Then he graduated the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in Holland. In 2018 he moved to New York for post-graduate studies at Manhattan School of Music, with the legendary bass player Ron Carter, as well as with the double bassist of New York Metropolitan Opera Jeremy McCoy.

He has performed at acclaimed and historic NYC venues (Dizzyʼs Jazz Club Mt Lincoln Center, Birdland, Mezzrow, Mintonʼs) and at some of Europe's most impotant festivals (Umbria Jazz, North Sea Jazz Festival, Getxo Jazz Festival). He has also collaborated with some famous jazz musicians, such as Wycliffe Gordon, Dick Oatts, Arturo oʼFarrill, Gregory Hutchinson, John Clayton, as well as with the composer Joshua Rosenblum and the screenwriter William Electric Black.

In Greece, among others, he is a member of the George Kontrafouris trio.