Jazz Articles about Steve Khan
Steve Khan: Arrows
by AAJ Staff
By Steve Khan With The Blue Man not selling as well as Tightrope, Dr. George Butler requested that I have a co-producer for the next CD. I was lucky to be able to land the engineering / production talents of my old and dear friend, Elliot Scheiner. Elliot and I had recorded together on countless sessions, but perhaps most people link us together because it was Elliot who recommended me to Donald Fagen and Walter Becker for AJA, which, of ...
read moreSteve Khan: Patchwork
by Rafael Vega Curry
Few artists have been as successful as Steve Khan in achieving a genuine blend of jazz and Latin sensibilities, rhythms and sonorities. In fact, it can be suggested that no one else has done what he has accomplished for the jazz guitar, offering both the extensions of what Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell and Grant Green did in their day, plus the real sabor latino. Khan, of course, is one of the preeminent guitarists of the last few decades, ...
read moreJohn McLaughlin Live from 1990, Steve Khan Live in Koln and David Binney
by Len Davis
Dennis Chambers from Groove and More, John McLaughlin from Live at Royal festival Hall, Steve Khan from The Suitcase Live in Koln, Plus ARC Trio, Sixun and Scott Kinsey. Playlist Dennis Chambers “Virtual Life" from Groove and More (Soul Trade) 00:00 John McLaughlin “Florianapolis" from Live at Royal Festival Hall 1990 (JMT) 07:50 David Binney “Massive Humanity" from Anacapa (Criss Cross) 15:41 Steve Khan “Uncle Roy" from The Suitcase (Tone Centre) 23:34 ARC Trio “Joan Miro" from ARC ...
read moreGergo Borlai, Simon Phillips, Steve Khan, Vital Information, Scott Jones
by Len Davis
Hungarian drummer Gergo Borlai, Simon Phillips Protocol V, Steve Khan, Vital Information and Scott Jones plus Petite Blonde Live in Germany featuring Bill Evans -Saxophone and Dennis Chambers. Playlist Gergo Borlai “Keith" from The Missing Song (Blue Canoe) 00:00 Simon Phillips “When The Cats Away" from Protocol V (Phantom) 06:59 Steve Khan"Dr Slump" from Eyewitness (Antilles) 13:47 Vital Information “Come On In" from Come On In (Tone Centre) 20:46 Gerald Gradwohl “Positive Grid" from Episode 6 (Self Produced ...
read moreMauricio Farfan, Steve Khan, Alex Garcia, Erik Escobar, John Escreet
by Len Davis
Latin infused fusion from Mauricio Farfan, Steve Khan, Erik Escobar and Alex Garcia's AfroMantra. Plus John Escreet, Lost Tribe and Gene Lake. Playlist Mauricio Farfan “Simbiosis" from Travesia (M F Latin Music) 00:00 Steve Khan “Heard" from Subtext (Tone Centre) 12:05 Alex Garcia's AfroMantra “Coltranesque" from This Side of Mestizaje (Afro Mantra) 17:59 Erik Escobar “Casa Forte" from New Samba Jazz (Altrusioni) 24:06 John Escreet “Global Citizen" from Learn to Live (Blue Room) 30:00 Lost Tribe “Concentrics" from ...
read moreSteve Khan: A Rich Discography and A Priceless Left Hand
by Jim Worsley
The life and times of guitarist extraordinaire Steve Khan stretch through a high volume of evolving chapters that fuse together like the passages of a finely crafted arrangement. An expansive conversation with Khan touched on a variety of memories. Still, this is perhaps the Reader's Digest version of the seventy-three years old musician and composer's remarkable journey. The fusion turned Latin guitarist has recorded over twenty studio albums and appears on nearly one hundred more records with other ...
read moreSteve Khan: Patchwork
by John Kelman
Amongst the many myths out there about music-making—especially in jazz, where the improvisation quotient is often so high—is that composing may, indeed, be work, but doesn't require the kind of relentless attention to detail that far more truthfully defines how many artists write and arrange their music. These days, one need only look to music by artists including Pat Metheny, Antonio Sanchez and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah to find music conceived with intimate and painstaking detail while, at the same ...
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