{"id":2739,"date":"2011-06-29T00:06:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T07:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2011-07-01T17:03:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T00:03:37","slug":"cd-knuffke-stacken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/06\/cd-knuffke-stacken\/","title":{"rendered":"CD: Knuffke &#038; Stacken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kirk Knuffke &#038; Jess Stacken<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FOrange-Was-The-Color%2Fdp%2FB004IVHO9M%3Fie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1309049736%26sr%3D301-2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Orange Was The Color<\/em><\/a> (Steeplechase). <\/p>\n<p>Balancing daring and restraint, Knuffke and Stacken address 11 of Charles Mingus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s compositions. Knuffke sets aside his trumpet in favor of cornet to intertwine, contrast and parallel his lines with Stracken\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s piano. He achieves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Orange-Was-The-Color.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Orange-Was-The-Color.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Orange Was The Color\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Orange-Was-The-Color.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Orange-Was-The-Color-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Orange-Was-The-Color-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a>remarkable precision and velocity at low volume. Stracken equals Knuffke in the control and articulation departments. Among the highlights: a section of free counterpoint on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ecclusiastics\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and heartfelt treatment of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The joy of their leap into \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So Long Eric\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is reminiscent of a cornet-piano team that thrived 85 years earlier: Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines. Also available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzloft.com\/p-53738-orange-was-the-color.aspx\"target=\"_blank\">as a CD<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk Knuffke &#038; Jess Stacken, Orange Was The Color (Steeplechase). Balancing daring and restraint, Knuffke and Stacken address 11 of Charles Mingus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s compositions. Knuffke sets aside his trumpet in favor of cornet to intertwine, contrast and parallel his lines with Stracken\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s piano. He achieves remarkable precision and velocity at low volume. Stracken equals Knuffke in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}