Brightness: Live in Amsterdam
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| Live album by Kirk Knuffke | ||||
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| Label (s) | Royal Potato Family | |||
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CD |
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8th |
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44:57 |
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Bimhuis, Amsterdam |
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Brightness: Live in Amsterdam is a jazz album by the Kirk Knuffke Trio with Mark Helias and Bill Goodwin . The recordings, which were made on June 2, 2016 at a concert in the Bimhuis , Amsterdam, were released in February 2020 on the Royal Potato Family label.
background
Cornet player Kirk Knuffke had previously worked with the two musicians, most recently with bassist Mark Helias in 2015 on Uri Caine's album Calibrated Thickness , with both Helias and drummer Bill Goodwin in 2015 on his own album Arms & Hands . Knuffke dedicated the title track to Sun Ra . The cornetist also makes his vocal debut with two titles, in "White Shoulders" and "The Mob, The Crowd, The Man", both of which contain text by the poet Carl Sandburg.
Track list
- Kirk Knuffke: Brightness: Live in Amsterdam
- Brightness
- Rise
- White Shoulders
- odds
- The mob
- The crowd, the mass
- That's a shame
- Spares and Falls
reception
Dave Sumner counted the album as one of the best releases of the month and praised Knuffke's music as embodying something old and something new at the same time, but always had a melancholy mood. As this live recording from the Amsterdam Bimhuis shows, the blues are consistently visible - a fact that is true when the cornetist trio with Bill Goodwin and Mark Helias immerses himself in the avant-garde , the era of Tin Pan Alley and modern areas. Alongside Ron Miles and Rob Mazurek, Knuffke is one of the leading cornet players on the scene, and this album cemented that reputation.
In the opinion of Doug Collette, who reviewed the album in All About Jazz , Knuffke - here in the role of the band leader and composer - relied on his sophisticated versatility. The recording is proof of the trio's individual and collective instinct that they leave a lot of space for each other when they throw ideas back and forth and then pursue different trains of thought to logical conclusions in the spontaneity of these special moments.
Bill Milkowski wrote in Down Beat that cornetist Kirk Knuffke was a spirited voice in the subversive tradition of Lester Bowie and Don Cherry . His music convincingly spans the gap between inside and outside. Knuffke's mastery of his instrument shows limitless mastery of technology and a suitable creative spirit, which enables him to get "where his heart and mind lead him." It does not matter whether it is free-bop pieces like " Odds ”, which is dedicated to the late soprano saxophone master Steve Lacy , or more explorative numbers like the intrepid Jimmy Lyons tribute“ That's a Shame ”and the dramatic, searching“ Spares and Falls ”. The imaginative, highly interactive crew achieve some ecstatic climaxes in this daring, highly charged set, praises the author, who awards the album four (out of five) stars.
Web links
- Information about the album at Bandcamp
- Listing of the album on Allmusic (English). Retrieved July 1, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Program information of the Bimhuis 2016
- ^ A b Bill Milkowski: Kirk Knuffke: Brightness: Live in Amsterdam. Down Beat, May 1, 2020, accessed July 23, 2020 .
- ↑ The Best Jazz on Bandcamp: February 2020. Bandcamp Daily, March 9, 2020, accessed on July 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Doug Collette: Kirk Knuffke: Brightness: Live in Amsterdam. All About Jazz, March 7, 2020, accessed on July 23, 2020 .