Cherryco
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63:30 |
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Cherryco is a jazz album by Kirk Knuffke . The recordings made in 2016 were released on SteepleChase Records in 2017 .
background
Cherryco is a tribute album and deals with the trumpeter Don Cherry . For the album's repertoire, Knuffke initially selected five pieces from the work of Ornette Coleman's quartet from 1958 to 1959, to which Cherry was a member, such as “Lonely Woman” and “The Sphinx”; seven pieces came from Chery himself like the title track or "Paris Ambulance", "Complete Communion" and "Art Deco" (which was also the title track of the 1989 album of the same name ). The cornetist was assisted in the studio session by bassist Jay Anderson and drummer Adam Nussbaum .
Francis Davis wrote in the Village Voice that jazz musicians still in their thirties and not tied to the worship of bebop ancestors, like cornetist Kirk Knuffke and his loose circle of musicians from Brooklyn such as Mary Halvorson , do not prefer the traditional Playing standards, even if they sometimes do. Cover versions are more likely to be recorded, usually on concept albums or as entire concert programs. Jazz standards are something of a “protected species”, says Davis, and especially those of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington “have continued smoothly from generation to generation. But even when interpreting the canon, these intuitive postmodernists try to expand it - and to question how what is already anchored in it relates to them instead of the other way around. "
One example is Knuffke's series of (mostly) duo albums with the pianist Jesse Stacken for the Danish label SteepleChase. “ When I first came to New York in 2005 [from his native Colorado], my passion was free improvisation and the avant-garde ,” Knuffke told the author, “ But at home I heard as much Monk as everything else and wanted this music play so I could study how it worked, but wasn't part of a jam session circle that played Monk regularly and didn't look for it. Then when I met Jesse, he was doing a lot of monk, so we got together and recorded Monk with some Ellington things we both liked . ”After the 2008 album, there was a Charles Mingus retrospective, then a couple of releases that largely devoted to the music of Albert Ayler , Steve Lacy , Misha Mengelberg and other avant-garde artists, finally a Satie album based on a collection of his piano studies that were opened to improvisation.
Track list
- Kirk Knuffke - Cherryco (SteepleChase SCCD 31832)
- Roland Alphonso (Don Cherry) 5:58
- The Sphinx (Ornette Coleman) 5:53
- Art Deco (Don Cherry) 7:21
- Remembrance (Don Cherry) 4:58
- Golden Heart (Don Cherry) 4:12
- Lonely Woman (Ornette Coleman) 2:55
- Jayne (Ornette Coleman) 6:58
- Song in D (Don Cherry) 7:44
- Paris Ambulance Song (Don Cherry) 4:28
- Angel Voice (Ornette Coleman) 5:15
- Mind and Time (Ornette Coleman) 3:46
- Cherryco (Don Cherry) 4:00
reception
According to Derek Taylor, who reviewed the album in Dusted , Cherry and Knuffke “have a lot in common subjectively. A lasting reverence for the melody and the undemanding mastery of their common instrument, the cornet, are the cornerstones of their respective musical endeavors. ”Cherry is no longer alive, but his music lives on both in recorded form and in versions of the numerous musicians that he continued to influence, wrote Taylor. Knuffke maintains a productive pace with a strategy of routinely placing his horn in various and unexpected contexts. This album is no different, as it brings him together with partners Jay Anderson and Adam Nussbaum, both of whom are not necessarily intuitively suited to the respective circumstances, but bring a shared surplus of fire and expertise into the company that is immediately contagious.
Francis Davis wrote in the Village Voice that Cherry's alternative to making the changes was a subtle kind of chord dexterity, with chords disappearing back into their basic melodies. "I think what musicians call time is the most important element in jazz because you think of all the different sounds and approaches of great players and the only thing that made them all great was their time game," quoted he Kirk Knuffke, and that way of thinking makes him perfect for Cherry's music, Davis continued. "He uses all of Cherry's tricks and adds some of his own nifty ones, thanks in part to his greater technical ability."
Peter Margasak said in the Down Beat that Knuffke did not imitate Don Cherry in the least. The album is shaped by the shared spirit of generosity and the persistence of Chery's compositions. Knuffke may be more of a technician than Cherry, says the author, but here he puts the emphasis on the ensemble playing together and creating an airy, malleable connection with his skilled rhythm team while still performing a compelling and lyrical solo after the other unfold. Cherryco feels like a love letter and it's hard not to partake in the excitement.
Close view of Filipe Freitas, who reviewed the album in London Jazz News, the trio with a strong musical sensitivity, both melodic and rhythmic, immerse themselves deeply in the progressive universe of these composers and seize the opportunity to develop innovations as well Reshape melodies with your own adjustments. Cherryco , a collection of classical jazz music that is passionately and tastefully treated in a contemporary way, is a treat for the ears.
Web links
- Listing of the album on Allmusic (English). Accessed January 1, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Peter Margasak: Kirk Knuffke: Cherryco (Steeplechase). Down Beat, September 1, 2017, accessed July 27, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Kirk Knuffke's Time: The Story of Some of the Year's Best Jazz. Village Voice, August 30, 2017, accessed July 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Kirk Knuffke - Cherryco at Discogs
- ↑ Derek Taylor: Kirk Knuffke - Cherryco (Steeplechase). Dusted, June 7, 2017, accessed July 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Filipe Freitas: Kirk Knuffke - Cherryco. London Jazz News, June 12, 2017, accessed July 27, 2020 .