Release Date: 01 July 2022
Label: Tao Forms
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 642623801024
Genres: Jazz Avant-garde
Release Date: 12 August 2022
Label: Tao Forms
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 642623801017
Genres: Jazz Avant-garde
Description
The exemplary and well-travelled cornetist Kirk Knuffke presents a bold new trio, with bassist Michael Bisio and pianist Matthew Shipp, on an intimate and expansive double album.
'Gravity Without Airs features' the three world-class musicians on Knuffke compositions and in open form, creating a tour-de-force of poetry and verve. It's available as a 2CD in deluxe 8-panel digipak and a 2LP in deluxe gatefold sleeve with download card, the liner notes are by Francis Davis.
This is Knuffke's debut as a leader for TAO Forms. Accolades for the cornetist's recent work as leader include NPR's Jazz Album of the Year laurel for 2017's Cherryco, his homage to Don Cherry, a prime influence. DownBeat praised the way that album showcased Knuffke's "nonchalant versatility and ebullient melodic gifts," while esteemed critic Francis Davis called it "nothing short of spectacular." Davis also wrote the liner notes for Gravity...noting the allure of Knuffke's instrumental aplomb: "Kirk plays as if his cornet is a part of him - he plays with it, not just on it."
On his guiding artistic impulse, Kirk Knuffke says: "I'm concerned with making beautiful music. Beauty is always first, though not in a precious way. It can be in a rough way, too." A prolific, lauded record-maker, 'Gravity Without Airs' fulfils his poetic aims as well as any recording he has made. This work finds Knuffke in the rare, even unique, trio format of cornet, piano and double-bass. His partners are two ever-estimable pillars of creative music, and the work they've created together here brims with melody and mystery, intimacy and dynamism.
"Rhythmically precise, New Orleans funky and full of grace, Kirk Knuffke's music is a reflection of his multifaceted personality: part musical sage, part jazz philosopher, a self-taught musician with wide interests, endless curiosity and an abundance of good humour." - DownBeat
Description
The exemplary and well-travelled cornetist Kirk Knuffke presents a bold new trio, with bassist Michael Bisio and pianist Matthew Shipp, on an intimate and expansive double album.
'Gravity Without Airs features' the three world-class musicians on Knuffke compositions and in open form, creating a tour-de-force of poetry and verve. It's available as a 2CD in deluxe 8-panel digipak and a 2LP in deluxe gatefold sleeve with download card, the liner notes are by Francis Davis.
This is Knuffke's debut as a leader for TAO Forms. Accolades for the cornetist's recent work as leader include NPR's Jazz Album of the Year laurel for 2017's Cherryco, his homage to Don Cherry, a prime influence. DownBeat praised the way that album showcased Knuffke's "nonchalant versatility and ebullient melodic gifts," while esteemed critic Francis Davis called it "nothing short of spectacular." Davis also wrote the liner notes for Gravity...noting the allure of Knuffke's instrumental aplomb: "Kirk plays as if his cornet is a part of him - he plays with it, not just on it."
On his guiding artistic impulse, Kirk Knuffke says: "I'm concerned with making beautiful music. Beauty is always first, though not in a precious way. It can be in a rough way, too." A prolific, lauded record-maker, 'Gravity Without Airs' fulfils his poetic aims as well as any recording he has made. This work finds Knuffke in the rare, even unique, trio format of cornet, piano and double-bass. His partners are two ever-estimable pillars of creative music, and the work they've created together here brims with melody and mystery, intimacy and dynamism.
"Rhythmically precise, New Orleans funky and full of grace, Kirk Knuffke's music is a reflection of his multifaceted personality: part musical sage, part jazz philosopher, a self-taught musician with wide interests, endless curiosity and an abundance of good humour." - DownBeat
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet
James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet
Whit Dickey, William Parker & Matthew Shipp
Matthew Shipp
Whit Dickey Trio
Matthew Shipp
Michael Bisio, Karl Berger, Mat Maneri & Whit Dickey
Ivo Perelman Trio
Various Artists
The Residents
The Residents
Sun Ra
Elton Dean
Soft Head
Mike Osborne Trio
Lol Coxhill
