Paul Knopf

Paul Knopf was known as "the Outcat" during the late '50s. The nickname dominated a set of recordings Knopf released in 1959, starting with the debut of The Outcat and further fanning out when The Outcat Comes Back, the latter put out by an imprint also entitled An Outcat. In between arrived the Enigma of a Day album, yet there was no enigma regarding where this particular artist was coming from, at least not in the minds of the jazz critical establishment. As depicted in newspaper articles about this artist that have run during his long career in New York City, Knopf was too ...