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Kirk Knuffke
Reflecting on his guiding artistic impulse, Kirk Knuffke says: “I’m concerned with making beautiful music. Even when the music is free and avant-garde, I want it to reach into people’s hearts. I like to play fast and loud and high, but beauty is always first, though not in a precious way. It can be in a rough way, too.” A prolific, lauded record-maker, the cornetist-composer has made some 20 albums as a leader or co-leader over the past two decades. Knuffke’s 2022 release as a leader — Gravity Without Airs (TAO Forms/AUM Fidelity), featuring pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist Michael Bisio — fulfilled his poetic aims as well as any recording he has made to date, earning a review of 4 ½ stars from DownBeat magazine as well as a critic’s playlist pick in The New York Times. As an in-demand sideman, Knuffke also records and tours the world with some of today’s leading jazz musicians, from vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant and guitarist Mary Halvorson to drummer Matt Wilson and saxophonist James Brandon Lewis. Knuffke was a standout front-line foil for Lewis on the tenor man’s hit Red Lily Quintet disc Jesup Wagon, which JazzTimes named the top album of 2021. All About Jazz has aptly extolled Knuffke as “one of modern jazz’s most skilled navigators of the divide between inside and outside, freedom and swing.”
Window
By Kirk Knuffke
Label: Royal Potato Family
Released: 2025
Track listing: Choose; Gong Suite - Part 1; For Your Needing; Mr. Bill; A Divine Image; Runs Red; Ballad;
Window; Gong Suite - Part 2; Heavy Times; Gong Suite - Part 3; Carey; A Little More So.
Kirk Knuffke: Window
by Jerome Wilson
Cornet player Kirk Knuffke seems to work with a different combination of musicians on every recording he makes. This time out, he is joined by Stomu Takeishi on bass and Bill Goodwin on drums in a bare bones trio session that covers a lot of musical ground. The album consists of thirteen short tracks ...
Kirk Knuffke, Anat Fort, Bram de Looze, Bob Wellins & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Another stack of recent and upcoming albums to soundtrack the week ahead, kicking off with three stunners by Kirk Knuffke, Bram de Looze, and Anat Fort's compelling take on the dreamworld of Paul Motian.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Kirk Knuffke “Runs Red" Window ...
Cécile McLorin Salvant's Ogresse At Carnegie Hall
by Adam Beaudoin
Cécile McLorin Salvant Carnegie Hall Ogresse New York, NY May 21, 2025 The relationship between jazz and classical music has a long, complicated history. Musicians themselves tend to care more about the music than concepts of genre, and you only need to listen to the echoes of French Impressionism ...
Fonterossa Days #9
by Neri Pollastri
Teatro Sant'Andrea Fonterossa Days #9 Pisa 26--27 aprile 2025 Nona edizione del minifestival Fonterossa, creatura di Silvia Bolognesi al pari dell'omonima etichetta discografica, che dallo scorso anno s'è allargato a due giorni. Così, anche stavolta il sabato ha visto i primi due concerti, non più all'Ex-Wide ma nella tradizionale sede ...
Matt Pavolka: Disciplinary Architecture
by Vincenzo Roggero
Pur essendo da oltre vent'anni una presenza importante della scena newyorchese il bassista, trombonista, compositore Matt Pavolka ha pubblicato solo tre album a proprio nome: l'esordio di Something People Can Use (Toneofapitch, 2008), l'ottimo The Horns Band (FSNT,2014) e, a dieci anni di distanza, questo Disciplinary Architecture per la prestigiosa Sunnyside. Se nell'album ...
Elegy for Thelonious
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Spooky Rift We Pat; Out of Steam; Wanting More; Elegy for Thelonious; Scallop’s Scallop; Wrinkle on Trinkle; Brake Tune.
Exotic Materials In Development
By David Haney
Label: Cadence Jazz Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Warning - Exotic Materials In Development In the Desert - with Cheryl Pyle, Kirk Knuffke, Dave Storrs; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development Track Five Folk Blues; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development - No. 11 with Dave Sewelson and Dave Storrs; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development - Musicians Wren with Cheryl Pyle, Dave Sewelson and Dave Storrs; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development with Dave Sewelson and Bernard Purdie; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development - The Creation with Dave Sewelson and Dave Storrs; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development - with Kirk Knuffke; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development Track 20 Trio; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development - Pretty Prancing Hangup with Cheryl Pyle; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development - with Cheryl Pyle; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development - with Kirk Knuffke; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development - with Dave Sewelson.
Guilty!!!
By Jeff Lederer
Label: Little (i) Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Buzzsaw; Buttigieg Vs. Saunders; Deportation Operation; Piccolo-Buster; Guilty!!!; And She
Speaks; We The People; Fables Of Faubus; Truth is Marching In.
