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Steve Kuhn: To and From the Heart

Read "To and From the Heart" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo


Insieme a due standard jazz e pop, cinque composizioni originali costituiscono il repertorio proposto da uno dei più autorevoli e versatili esponenti del pianismo jazz contemporaneo. Il trio di Steve Kuhn si impone con questo CD degno di rilievo per il rigore e l'enciclopedismo stilistico dei musicisti, che abbinano magistero tecnica e cuore palpitante. È tutto da assaporare il sobrio e raffinato solismo del leader, che viene magnificamente assecondato dalle sottili dinamiche dei due empatici compagni di viaggio. ...

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Radio & Podcasts

Rock the Casbah of Love

Read "Rock the Casbah of Love" reviewed by Patrick Burnette


Before the boys get to two releases hot off the presses, they spend some time with a Steve Kuhn release recorded soon after he parted ways with Art Farmer and started dating Monica Zetterlund. Then it's on to a fairly “out" recording by a veteran reed player and a less world-music-than-it-sounds release from a bass clarinetist with a Coltrane fixation. The episode wraps things up with an in-depth look at Paul Anka's transformation of rock standards into mid-sixties ...

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Album Review

Steve Kuhn Trio: To and From the Heart

Read "To and From the Heart" reviewed by Peter J. Hoetjes


Now an octogenarian, Steve Kuhn's career has in 2018 spanned nearly sixty years, never having a long lull of time without recording new music. It becomes something of a marvel then that after all this time, the pianist still finds something new to say; he is still able to surprise listeners with songs they don't expect and improvisations they don't anticipate. He continues with the same trio he used on his previous release, At This Time... (Sunnyside, 2016) ...

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Album Review

Steve Kuhn: At This Time…

Read "At This Time…" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo


L'arte pianistica diSteve Kuhn richiederebbe maggiori attenzioni da critica e pubblico, sia per la maestria tecnica, che per l'originalità e la coerenza progettuale. Lo dimostra la più recente produzione discografica con il suo trio, che torna in sala di registrazione dopo il CD per l'ECM del 2012. Per tradurre in emozioni il proprio ampio bagaglio espressivo, il leader ha chiamato al proprio fianco due fuoriclasse del proprio strumento. Il disco in esame conferma come l'affinità e l'empatia ...

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Album Review

Steve Kuhn: At This Time...

Read "At This Time..." reviewed by Budd Kopman


The wonderful and deeply satisfying At This Time... brings together pianist Steve Kuhn leading a trio comprised of electric bassist Steve Swallow and the ubiquitous (and always smiling drummer) Joey Baron. The immediate impulse for the recording was an extended set by this trio at Birdland, in New York City in 2015. Swallow and Kuhn go back forty years to Kuhn's ECM debut, Trance, with Kuhn knowing Baron for more than twenty years. This trio also recorded Kuhn's ...

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Live Review

Steve Kuhn Trio at Dazzle

Read "Steve Kuhn Trio at Dazzle" reviewed by Geoff Anderson


Steve Kuhn Trio Dazzle Denver, CO April 4, 2016 Against the backdrop of a bombastic presidential election campaign with calls for nuclear proliferation and carpet bombing it's refreshing to hear nuance. The Steve Kuhn Trio understands nuance. And more. But it's the nuance that makes listening to this trio so satisfying. They swing, they play standards, they do all the things a top-flight jazz piano trio should do, but on top of that they display ...

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Save the Date - Agosto 2015

Read "Save the Date - Agosto 2015" reviewed by Luca Canini


Agosto, festival miei non vi conosco. Mentre al di là delle Alpi è tempo di gustosissime abbuffate (Willisau, Saalfelden, Mulhouse, Lisbona: fatevi un giro sui siti dei giganti europei), in Italia impazzano le sagre balneari e gli eventi vacanzieri. Poco da salvare. E francamente fa una certa tristezza leggere i programmi di rassegne che hanno fatto la storia ridotti a un ammasso di brutture senza capo né coda. Stendiamo un pietoso velo e prima di passare ai ...


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