Release Date: 25 March 2022
Label: Origin Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 805558283420
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
The career and music of Seattle-based composer/arranger and trumpeter James Knapp is a known and respected quantity in the inner circles of jazz music, inhabited by its musicians, bandleaders, journalists and educators. Those fortunate enough to gain awareness of the intrinsic beauty of his music place the work of his Composers and Improvisers Orchestra of the '70s-'80s and his more recent assemblage, the 13-piece Jim Knapp Orchestra, in the upper echelon of modern jazz composition. For this 2009 session, we find the band focused and in top form, as it often was during a very active period in the early 2000s. Made up of a highly creative collection of colleagues from the Cornish College of the Arts, former students, and Seattle professionals, the music was approached with seriousness, dedication and honour, with the fun and fulfilment that comes with that level of involvement very evident.
"Jim Knapp's music is full of intensity, emotion and creative textures. His music should be more known. It's among the best of orchestral jazz being written these days." - MARIA SCHNEIDER
Artists:
Matt Jorgensen - Drums
Jon Hamar - Bass
Paul Taub - Flute
Mark Taylor - Saxophone
Steve Treseler - Saxophone
Stuart MacDonald - Saxophone
Jim Dejoie - Saxophone
Brad Allison - Trumpet
Vern Sielert - Trumpet
Jay Thomas - Trumpet
Tom Varner - Horn
Jeff Hay - Trombone
John Hansen - Piano
Chris Stover - Trombone
Tracklisting
Xose Miguelez
Joachim Mencel, Steve Cardenas, Scott Colley & Rudy Royston
Thomas Marriott, Orrin Evans, Luques Curtis & Mark Whitfield Jr
Ted Moore Trio
Jared Hall
Meridian Odyssey
Ben Patterson, Shawn Purcell, Chris Ziemba, Paul Henry, Todd Harrison
Brent Jensen
Kurt Rosenwinkel
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Jiem
Ant Law & Brigitte Beraha
Tom Green Septet
Patchwork Jazz Orchestra
Elaine Delmar
Ross McHenry
