Results for "Steve Kuhn"

Steve Kuhn in New-York - ECM Records CD Release Celebration: "Mostly Coltrane"

June 11, 2009

Venus Records

by Ken Dryden
March 7, 2009

Venus Records may be sparsely represented in North American record stores, though it has built quite a loyal following among jazz aficionados who frequent online music sources. Tetsuo Hara, the owner and founder of the label, has long been a jazz fan: “When I was a very young man, I listened to many 78-rpm records that ...

Jochen Pfister: Touring with Sheila Jordan

by AAJ Staff
March 6, 2009

German pianist Jochen Pfister had played in workshops with Sheila Jordan in Germany and, at her invitation, in the United States. In 2008, while in Cologne, he asked her if she might be interested in a German tour. “Yes" was the answer, and now it's about happen The first gig is Friday Match 6, 2009, in ...

Pianist/Composer Steve Kuhn Interviewed at AAJ

March 2, 2009

Whether it is in his trio, collaborating with vocalists or accompanying an orchestra, pianist Steve Kuhn has always managed to effortlessly defy and combine genres. Whether it is an older recording or one of his newer albums, an inherent ability to create melodic-based beauty makes his playing and compositions instantly identifiable. AAJ contributor Maxwell Chandler spoke ...

Life's Backward Glances - Solo and Quartet

by John Kelman
January 13, 2009

With an inestimable career largely spent in the service of interpreting the material of others, it's easy to forget pianist Steve Kuhn's equally valuable contributions as a composer. That he's turned almost exclusively to the venerable ECM label when either the spirit moves him to focus once again on his own writing, or when the label's ...

Two by 2

By Steve Kuhn

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Gentle Thoughts; Two by Two; Remember/Wrong Together; Eiderdown; Lullaby; Ladies in Mercedes; Deep Tango; Poem for # 15; Mr. Calypso Kuhn; Emmanuel.

Life's Backward Glances - Solo And Quartet

By Steve Kuhn

Label: hat ART
Released: 2008

Steve Kuhn Steve Swallow: Two by 2

by Stuart Broomer
March 15, 2008

Few musicians possess anything like the lyrical capacity of Steve Kuhn and Steve Swallow, whether as composers or performers and this album of duets recorded in 1995 achieves an ideal of empathy. With the compositions roughly divided between the two, there's as much emphasis on the construction of durable melodic material as spontaneous interaction.

Pastorale

By Steve Kuhn

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Charade; Remember; Years Later; Once Upon A Summertime; How Am I To Know?; My Buddy; I'll Take Romance; I'm Glad There Is You; Pastorale.

Live at Birdland

By Steve Kuhn

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: If I Were A Bell; Jitterbug Waltz; Two by Two; La Plus Que Lente/Passion Flower; Little Waltz; Lotus Blossom; Stella by Starlight; Slow Hot Wind; Clotilde; Confirmation.