Jazz Articles about Jeff Stitley

About Jeff Stitley

Album Review

Yet another guitar-led trio, this one by Kansas-born, Chicago-based Steve Knight who also writes in the manner of one of his role models, George Benson (Knight composed seven of the album's dozen numbers including two versions of “Sharps Disposal"). Although the recording's title refers in part to the eighteen months it took Knight to write the song “Persistence," it could well signify how difficult it is for jazz musicians to make a decent living these days or to find a ...

Album Review

Steve Knight: Persistence

Read "Persistence" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
August 8, 2022

Readers have surely heard of a “sniff test." It is an informal assessment that something, particularly in finance, just does not look right. It is usually intuitive rather than formal. But many analysts employ one before turning to more elaborate kinds of examinations to verify their suspicions. Music has no sniff test, but it does have a “sit still test." Can one sit still while something plays? If not, that is probably a good thing, unless it is ...