Jazz Articles about Jim Knodle

Jim Knodle & Anansi: Wending

by Mark Corroto
February 1, 2003

Trumpeter Jim Knodle takes a very long view of the recorded history of jazz. The music he wrote for this quintet/sextet known as Anansi never truly centers itself on one period or style of sound. Wending takes equally from Ellington, Early and Late-Miles, and a very open form music.

Because the three tracks heard here are lengthy, nine minutes the shortest and twenty-five the longest, there are no jump cuts or split allegiances. Knodle composes and arranges ...

Jim Knodle and Dave Storrs: Unprepared

by Dan McClenaghan
January 13, 2003

A trumpet and drum duet: two sticks, three buttons and a couple of pedals, pursed lips, studied exhalations. A fairly simple concept, on paper. Unprepared, by trumpeter Jim Knodle and percussionist Dave Storrs, is another shining set of spontaneously composed tunes from Louie Records, out of Corvallis, Oregon.Drummer Dave Storrs, though not at this point in time a household jazz name--like, say, Elvin Jones--takes percusssion into new dimensions of uncharted fluidity and shifting momentums. His teaming ...