Jazz Articles about Kasey Knudsen

About Kasey Knudsen

Album Review

Dopo l'eclettico e multiforme Kaleidoscope, la trombettista e compositrice californiana presenta un nuovo progetto privilegiando alcuni elementi di quel lavoro, in particolare la dimensione della brass band. Il nuovo organico--Brass Tonic--vede una front line tutta femminile con l'aggiunta di Kasey Knudsen al sax contralto e Mara Fox al trombone, mentre la sezione ritmica comprende il chitarrista John Schott, la bassista Lisa Mezzacappa e due batteristi che si alternano nei brani: Jon Arkin e Tim Bulkley. Il progetto trae ...

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Ian Carey: Strange Arts

Read "Strange Arts" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 29, 2024

Wood Metal Plastic is a septet that consists of a jazz quartet (trumpet, alto saxophone, bass, drums) and three-member string section presided over by San Francisco Bay area-based trumpeter Ian Carey, who wrote and arranged the material on his seventh album as leader, Strange Arts. It was recorded as a tribute to Carey's father, the innovative visual artist Philip Carey, who died in 2022. Aside from Carey, those in the quartet are alto Kasey Knudsen, bassist Lisa ...

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Throttle Elevator Music: Final Floor

Read "Final Floor" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
June 30, 2021

Final Floor marks the last stop of a band that one might say never really was. Throttle Elevator Music was the name given to a jazz-punk studio cooperative project organized and operating from 2011 through 2017 around saxophonist Kamasi Washington, drummer Mike Hughes (aka “Lumpy") and composer and guitarist Gregory Howe. Howe also founded and serves as producer and engineer for Wide Hive Records, the label that recorded and distributed their music. He notes on the back jacket ...

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Throttle Elevator Music: Emergency Exit

Read "Emergency Exit" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
July 1, 2020

The sub-genre of “punk jazz" has existed—on paper— since the 1970s when Patti Smith proposed a collaboration with Ornette Coleman. That partnership did not materialize. When all the moving pieces are pulled together there is little substance to suggest that the category ever shared specific practices or conventions. Then, in 2012, Throttle Elevator Music emerged with their self-titled debut (Wide Hive Records). The original group was a trio posing as a quintet. Drums and guitars were manned by Mike “Lumpy" ...

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Ian Carey Quintet + 1: Fire in My Head: The Anxiety Suite

Read "Fire in My Head: The Anxiety Suite" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
April 28, 2020

Trumpeter Ian Carey's Fire In My Head: The Anxiety Suite opens on a somber note, not with the sense of agitation that the album title suggests. The initial moments of the tune, “Signs And Symptoms," Part 1 of the suite, may initially be addressing the fatigue common to the malady, before his Carey's Quintet + 1 gradually turns up of the momentum in the direction of that anxiety, in manifestations from the leader's horn, followed by an on-edge turn by ...