Male keyboard player releasing current for one in kitchen (9)
I believe the answer is:
timpanist
'male' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'keyboard player releasing current for one in kitchen' is the wordplay.
'keyboard player' becomes 'pianist' (a piano has a keyboard).
'releasing' is a deletion indicator.
'current' becomes 'I' (symbol for electric current).
'for' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'one in kitchen' becomes 'tim' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'pianist' with 'i' removed is 'panist'.
'panist' put after 'tim' is 'TIMPANIST'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for timpanist that I've seen before include "I beat and roll" , "member of orchestra" , "Drummer" .)