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Jim Knapp Orchestra
Awards
Earshot “Best Acoustic Jazz Group” award in 1995 Things For Now, received the Earshot “Jazz Record Of The Year” award in 1999. Earshot Hall of Fame 2006
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Jim Knapp Orchestra: It's Not Business, It's Personal
by Jack Bowers
The Jim Knapp Orchestra's CD It's Not Business, It's Personal, recorded in February 2009, was set to be released on November 19, 2021six days after Knapp died at age eighty-two in Kirkland, Washington. Apart from his role as bandleader, Knapp was a trumpeter, composer, arranger and longtime faculty member at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Described by Grammy-winning composer/pianist Jim McNeely as a brilliant musician, great teacher and a humble, sweet [and] generous man," Knapp was widely recognized ...
read moreJim Knapp Orchestra Goes On Hiatus
Source:
Seattle Jazz Scene
from Jim Knapp:
The Jim Knapp Orchestra will no longer be performing on a regular basis. We have been going 18 years and that seems to be the lifespan for this group as a regular performing organization. I am eternally grateful for the musicians of such great talent who have made up the band including several who have been in the group since its inception.
And thanks to you listeners, friends and fellow musicians. It has been a particular pleasure ...
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Jim Knapp Orchestra at the Seattle Drum School
Source:
All About Jazz
JIM KNAPP ORCHESTRA
827 NE 130th St., Seattle, WA 98125
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Primary Instrument
Composer / conductor
Willing to teach
Advanced only
Credentials/Background
Professor of Music. Cornish College of the Arts. Courses taught: Jazz Theory II, Composition, Arranging, Ensemble.
Music
Gray Skies
From: It's Not Business, It's PersonalBy Jim Knapp Orchestra