Jazz Articles about Steve Khan

Steve Khan: Reflections on the Making of "The Green Field"

by Steve Khan
February 21, 2006

[Editors Note: In this, the first of a new series dedicated to giving artists an unedited forum to speak completely with their own voice, veteran guitarist Steve Khan reflects on the making of his new album, The Green Field (Tone Center, 2006)--his first as a leader in nine years. Khan emerged in the 1970s as part of the New York scene that included Randy and Michael Brecker, Don Grolnick and many others. He released three fine fusion ...

Steve Khan: The Green Field

by Jim Santella
February 19, 2006

Guitarist Steve Khan brings a straight-ahead quartet to the forum with The Green Field. Recorded less than a year ago, the session draws from jazz's modern mainstream with a focus on the leader's lyrical preferences. Percussionists Ralph Irizarry and Robert Quintero sit in for four of the album's nine selections, adding considerable depth to the program's foundation.

As the only melodic voice for most of the program, Khan takes off with sweeping motions that ramble from start to ...

Steve Khan: The Green Field

by John Kelman
February 14, 2006

Nine years have passed since guitarist Steve Khan last released an album as a leader. But he hasn't been inactive, touring with artists like Terri Lyne Carrington and Greg Osby and co-leading the Caribbean Jazz Project. However, it's been far too long since he's released an album putting his immediately recognizable style front and centre. Khan may not have the cachet of peers like Pat Metheny and John Scofield, but from the first notes of the recording, it's ...

Various artists: A Jazz Portrait Of Brian Wilson - Wouldn't It Be Nice

by Mark Sabbatini
March 26, 2005

This is definitely no day at the beach. Whether that's good or bad is highly subjective for A Jazz Portrait Of Brian Wilson, a 17-song tribute by contemporary artists such as Don Grusin, the Clark Burroughs Group and The Yellowjackets. Originally a 1997 Blue Note release, it was remastered and rereleased by IN2N Entertainment in 2004. Those not expecting instrumentals close in form to the Beach Boys leader will hear interesting ideas at work. But there's no question ...

Guitarist Steve Khan

by Mike Brannon
March 25, 2004

When Japan's Jazz Life Magazine took a poll of the 22 greatest Jazz guitarists, Steve Khan was on the list, alongside greats (on any instrument) like Wes, Martino, Hall, Django, Christian, Benson, McLaughlin, Metheny, Stern, Sco and Frisell.

As both player and sometimes producer, Khan's had the fortune to work alongside the likes of Brecker, Stern, Fagen, Zawinul, Sanborn, Erskine, Weckl, Anthony Jackson, Dennis Chambers and Manolo Badrena, to name only a few.

In addition to teaching, he has also ...

Steve Khan/Rob Mounsey: You Are Here

by Douglas Payne
October 1, 1998

Guitarist Steve Khan and keyboardist Rob Mounsey first recorded together on Khan's 1979 LP, Arrows (Columbia), then collaborated in 1987 on Local Color (Denon). Individually, they logged in loads of studio time with Chaka Khan, Billy Joel, Carly Simon and Madonna and worked together again with Donald Fagen and on several Steely Dan records. Since then, Khan has developed into a strong improviser, turning out several worthwhile solo efforts like the recent Got My Mental (Evidence) and Mounsey, whose debut ...

Steve Khan: Got My Mental

by Douglas Payne
December 1, 1997

It's been 20 years and 11 albums since Tightrope, guitarist Steve Kahn's quite good fusion debut on Columbia / Tappan Zee Records. Since then, he's moonlighted as a session man, handling gigs with the Brecker Brothers, Bob James, Steely Dan, Chuck Mangione and Ashford & Simpson. As a session ace, Kahn is an excellent assimilator with a tad too little personality (though that's often part of the job on a session). But on his own, he's worked successfully to refine ...