Kneebody
Reviews
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2005-05-04
Reviewed 2005-05-04
Youthful-sounding band, straight jazz with modern touches from the rock world: Lots of electric guitar with prog elements (3); keyboards ranging from conservative piano (10) to scrabbly synths (1). You can tell they listen to funk, BPM, and hip-hop, although none of those appears explicitly here.
Like The Bad Plus with less bombast. Plenty of "straight" tracks if you're looking for that, also lots of envelope-pushing elements to tracks like 1,3,6,11.
The band was signed out of nowhere by Dave Douglas for the second CD on his Greenleaf label (Douglas's own "Mountain Passages" was the first.) A real find; you can see why Douglas snapped 'em up.
Trumpeter Shane Endsley also appears on the Ralph Alessi album, "Vice and Virtue," mostly as a drummer.
1- Snappy and sort of funky, w/some wacky sci-fi noises
2- A bit spacey; curly horn lines over dark electronics
3- Boppish midtempo horns, thundery bass. Catchy themes before a space/proggy middle. Happy stuff, a highlight.
4- Cute theme, rather fast and gentle with BPM-like drums.
SEGUES into
5- Snippet. Mildly crazy
6- Mid/fast, a "tough" rockish stomp (In relative terms. Note that a jazz "stomp" isn't all that stomping ... )
7- Slowish, warm
8- Evil start! into some straight jazz w/Bitches-Brew electric piano
9- Mysterious, with slow sax over tribal drum and quiet horns
10- Piano: brisk and melodic. A gentle turn.
11- Like #2, but shifts into soft straight-jazz. Warm feel overall.
12- Gentle, mid/fast.
Like The Bad Plus with less bombast. Plenty of "straight" tracks if you're looking for that, also lots of envelope-pushing elements to tracks like 1,3,6,11.
The band was signed out of nowhere by Dave Douglas for the second CD on his Greenleaf label (Douglas's own "Mountain Passages" was the first.) A real find; you can see why Douglas snapped 'em up.
Trumpeter Shane Endsley also appears on the Ralph Alessi album, "Vice and Virtue," mostly as a drummer.
1- Snappy and sort of funky, w/some wacky sci-fi noises
2- A bit spacey; curly horn lines over dark electronics
3- Boppish midtempo horns, thundery bass. Catchy themes before a space/proggy middle. Happy stuff, a highlight.
4- Cute theme, rather fast and gentle with BPM-like drums.
SEGUES into
5- Snippet. Mildly crazy
6- Mid/fast, a "tough" rockish stomp (In relative terms. Note that a jazz "stomp" isn't all that stomping ... )
7- Slowish, warm
8- Evil start! into some straight jazz w/Bitches-Brew electric piano
9- Mysterious, with slow sax over tribal drum and quiet horns
10- Piano: brisk and melodic. A gentle turn.
11- Like #2, but shifts into soft straight-jazz. Warm feel overall.
12- Gentle, mid/fast.
Recent airplay
Break Me
Memory Select — Jan 22, 2010
Break Me
Memory Select — Jul 27, 2007
The Comedian, Never Remember
"In Your Ear ..." with David Bug, a moment before weights — Jun 20, 2007
Never Remember
Memory Select — May 11, 2007
Coat Rack
Memory Select: Dewey Redman, RIP — Sep 08, 2006
Never Remember
Memory Select — Jul 08, 2005
Charting
2005-05-08 — 2005-07-10
Jazz
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Jul 10 | 1 |
| Jul 3 | 1 |
| Jun 26 | 1 |
| Jun 19 | 1 |
| Jun 12 | 3 |
| Jun 5 | 3 |
| May 29 | 2 |
| May 22 | 2 |
Track listing
| 1. | Break Me | ||
| 2. | Clime Part 1 | ||
| 3. | Never Remember | ||
| 4. | The Comedian | ||
| 5. | Wide Eyed | ||
| 6. | I'm Your General | ||
| 7. | Victory Lap | ||
| 8. | Coat Rack | ||
| 9. | Halfway to Scranton | ||
| 10. | Everywhere From there to ... | ||
| 11. | Clime Part 2 | ||
| 12. | Perfect Compromise |