Jazz Articles about Peter Knight

Peter Knight: Hand To Earth's Sonic Homecoming

by Lawrence Peryer
November 1, 2025

Today, the Spotlight shines on composer, trumpeter, and producer Peter Knight.Peter Knight has spent decades working in the spaces between genres and cultures. His latest project brings together 40,000-year-old Indigenous Australian songs with contemporary electroacoustic music through Hand to Earth's new album, the title of which translates as “the scent of home." The record finds Peter collaborating with Indigenous songkeepers David and Daniel Wilfred alongside Korean vocalist Sunny Kim, creating music that honors ancient traditions while pushing into ...

Trevor Watts' Original Drum Orchestra: The Art Is In The Rhythm Volume 2

by Chris May
July 13, 2023

A co-founder of London's pioneering Spontaneous Music Ensemble with drummer John Stevens in the mid 1960s, saxophonist Trevor Watts has straddled an unusually wide spectrum of genres. With SME he explored an area of free jazz which, in deliberate contrast to contemporary American adventurers such as Ornette Coleman or members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, wholly rejected melody and rhythm. At the other end of the spectrum Watts has been involved in jazz rock.

Peter Knight's Invisible Cities

by Miriam Zolin
December 15, 2005

Peter Knight's 5+2 Brass Ensemble has recently released Invisible Cities and Other Works, on Rufus Records. The CD comprises compositions inspired by Italo Calvino's book Invisible Cities, which is a series of short and often surreal pieces about fictitious cities, described by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan as a series of conversations. Peter Knight is based in Melbourne, Australia. All About Jazz talked to him recently about the CD.

All About Jazz: What was it about Calvino's Invisible Cities that ...