Kirk Knuffke Quartet - Big Wig (2008) torrent

Clean Feed Records: CF107
http://www.cleanfeed-records.com/disco2.asp?intID=239

* Kirk Knuffke: trumpet
* Brian Drye: trombone
* Reuben Radding: bass
* Jeff Davis: drums

http://www.kirkknuffke.com/
http://www.briandrye.com/
http://www.reubenradding.com/
http://www.jeffdavisdrums.com/

Recorded on March 22, 2007 at Studio STATS, Brooklyn, NY, by Reuben Radding.


Reviews
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By Scott Yanow
http://www.allmusic.com/album/big-wig-mw0001670475

Kirk Knuffke is a very creative trumpeter. Since moving to New York from
Colorado in 2005, he has played avant-garde jazz (including with Butch Morris)
and pop music in addition to working with Ideal Bread, a group dedicated to the
music of Steve Lacy. Knuffke's recording debut as a leader ranges from free
improvisations to free bop with a healthy dose of interplay between the
trumpeter, trombonist Brian Drye, bassist Reuben Radding, and drummer Jeff
Davis. The playing is explorative and advanced yet concise, and the music fits
such song titles as "Enough," "Normal" (which is almost a blues) and "Repeat."
Each of the musicians is clearly familiar with earlier jazz styles yet is
uninhibited and open enough to improvise fairly freely within the confines of
Knuffke's originals. No musician overwhelms the ensembles and the results are
colorful, witty, unpredictable, inventive, and swinging in their own fashion.

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By Stef
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2008/05/kirk-knuffke-quartet-bigwig-clean-feed.html

By Troy Collins
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/big-wig-kirk-knuffke-clean-feed-records-review-by-troy-collins.php

By Martin Longley
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/bigwig-kirk-knuffke-clean-feed-records-review-by-martin-longley.php

By Clifford Allen
http://www.bagatellen.com/?p=1886

Por Yahvé M. de la Cavada (es)
http://www.tomajazz.com/discos/breves.php?d=2008-07-01#kkq_bw