Kirk Knuffke – Witness (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:06:25 minutes | 557 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SteepleChase
Two extraordinary talents from the two totally independent discipline of art forms are meeting here to create a genuinely unique musical experience for us. Kirk Knuffke one of the most prominent of jazz cornetist and New York’s up and coming operatic baritone singer Steven Herring present here, to quote the liner-note author Neil Tesser, “an album that juxtaposes conservatory and nightclub, improvisation and spoken word, the sacred and the secular, into one of the most unusual and inventive projects of Knuffke’s career”.
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Kirk Knuffke – Brightness: Live in Amsterdam (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:00 minutes | 904 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Royal Potato Family
Startling inventiveness, moment-to-moment creative sparks, and alchemical reactivity combine in always surprising ways throughout the work of cornetist and composer Kirk Knuffke. It may come as something of a surprise, then, to realize that he’s never released a live date as a leader. While Knuffke’s been an essential component of many a collaborator’s concert albums and of course logged countless hours on stages around the road, his own catalogue has been almost wholly crafted in recording studios.
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