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Gray Skies by Jim Knapp
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Album Title: It's Not Business, It's Personal
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
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About the Album
The career and music of Seattle-based composer/arranger and trumpeter James Knapp is a known and respected quantity in the inner circles of jazz music, inhabited by its musicians, bandleaders, journalists and educators. Those fortunate enough to gain awareness of the intrinsic beauty of his music place the work of his Composers and Improvisers Orchestra of the '70s-'80s and his more recent assemblage, the 13-piece Jim Knapp Orchestra, in the upper echelon of modern jazz composition. For this 2009 session, we find the band focused and in top form, as it often was during a very active period in the early 2000s. Made up of a highly creative collection of colleagues from the Cornish College of the Arts, former students, and Seattle professionals, the music was approached with seriousness, dedication and honor, with the fun and fulfillment that comes with that level of involvement very evident.
Tracks
Miami Vince; Afterthought; The Presence of Absence; Kumasi; Gray Skies; Forward Motion; Modal Horizon; Nerds of Steel.
Personnel
Jim Knapp
composer / conductorJim Knapp Orchestra
composer / conductorPaul Taub
fluteMark Taylor - Saxophone
saxophoneSteve Treseler
saxophoneStuart MacDonald
woodwindsJim Dejoie
woodwindsBrad Allison
trumpetVern Sielert
trumpetJay Thomas
multi-instrumentalistTom Varner
french hornJeff Hay
tromboneChris Stover
tromboneJohn Hansen
pianoJon Hamar
bass, acousticMatt Jorgensen
drumsReviews
- It's Not Business, It's Personal by Jack Bowers
Date featured
March 8, 2022
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