Steve Kuhn

A recording that pays tribute to a musician of towering importance – and for Steve Kuhn an album of powerful memories. For two months in 1960, Kuhn, then just 21 years old, was the pianist in John Coltrane’s quartet: an unforgettable experience for a young musician, to embark each night into jazz of such torrential emotional intensity. Half-a-century later, joined by a team of gifted collaborators playing at the top of their form, Kuhn rechannels the energies of the era in an album of astonishing invention and wild beauty. Kuhn and Joe Lovano improvise gloriously together, riding the surging waves of Joey Baron’s polyrhythms, in a programme of tunes written by or strongly associated with Coltrane. Tracks include “Welcome”, “Song of Praise”, “Central Park West”, “Spiritual” and more. Recorded December 2008 at New York’s Avatar Studio.

PERSONNEL:

• JOE LOVANO, tenor saxophone, tarogato
• STEVE KUHN, piano
• DAVID FINCK, double-bass
• JOEY BARON, drums

Recorded December 2008

TRACKS:

• 01. Welcome
• 02. Song of Praise
• 03. Crescent
• 04. I Want To Talk About You
• 05. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
• 06. Living Space
• 07. Central Park West
• 08. Like Sonny
• 09. With Gratitude
• 10. Configuration
• 11. Jimmy’s Mode
• 12. Spiritual
• 13. Trance