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Emily Kuhn

Emily Kuhn is a jazz trumpet player based in Chicago, IL, described by the Chicago Jazz Magazine as having “a charismatic style and a sophistication that belies her youth.” Originally from Charlottesville, VA, Emily has made a name for herself as an active bandleader, sidewoman, composer, and educator since moving to Chicago in 2016. She released her debut album, Sky Stories, via BACE Records on October 30, 2020, to numerous accolades. She was named a Luminarts Fellow in Jazz in 2020, and received a nomination for “Best Jazz Musician” in the Chicago Reader’s 2020 end-of-year poll. Emily’s nine-piece chamber jazz ensemble, Helios, features a string quartet in lieu of a single chordal instrument and incorporates sounds from folk, popular, and classical musical traditions

Ghosts of Us

By Emily Kuhn

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Ghosts of Us; Respire; In Lieu of Certainty, Movement; When It Rains; When the World is Young; Home.

Emily Kuhn, Matt Moran, Jack DeJohnette and More

by Jerome Wilson
October 18, 2023

This episode features a variety of lesser-known musicians with some familiar names mixed in. It includes Emily Kuhn, Matt Moran, Carla Bley, Jack DeJohnette, and Arman Sangalang. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 John Lewis ...

Emily Kuhn: Ghosts of Us

by Jerome Wilson
August 30, 2023

Emily Kuhn is a trumpet player from Chicago with a calm, lyrical tone whose music is influenced by the folk and classical worlds as well as jazz. That shows up strongly on the track “In Lieu of Certainty, Movement" here, where pianist Meghan Stagl keeps a rippling neo-classical melody going while Kuhn and guitarist Erik Skov ...

Kind Regards

By Gustavo Cortiñas

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: I Hope You Have a Good Phone Call Today; Emigraste; Walkin; Libertad; If I Learned Today; Anamnesis; When I Leave You; Madrugada Nebulosa; Wednesday Can’t Come Fast Enough; Amanece.

Gustavo Cortinas: Kind Regards

by Hrayr Attarian
October 20, 2022

Drummer Gustavo Cortinas' previous album was cinematic in scale, and he has followed it with the more intimate yet equally enchanting Kind Regards (Saludos Afectuosos). Leading a quintet of young, intrepid, Chicago musicians, Cortinas interpretes ten of his own songs that explore themes of social justice, love, and life in general. “When I Leave ...

Teddy Wilson, Harry Allen & Rahsaan Barber

by Joe Dimino
August 22, 2021

From a crop of new young jazz lions, we begin the 713th Episode of Neon Jazz with Rahsaan Barber with a cut off his latest 2021 release Mosaic. We also take a look into the music of other new cats like Jack Brandfield, Emily Kuhn and David Lord. We wrap up this summer themed hour with ...

Erik Skov: Liminality

by Jack Bowers
October 2, 2019

Liminality is defined as “occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold." Guitarist Erik Skov had a good idea: infuse his debut album with a certain amount of liminality (ambivalence) in the form of eight long-form compositions designed to lend his able sextet weighty meat on which to chew.