Steve Kuhn - Mostly Coltrane (Ocrd)
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Artist: Steve KuhnPerformer: Joe Lovano
Performer: David Finck
Performer: Joey Baron
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2009-07-07
Music Label: ECM Records
Soundtracks:
- Welcome
- Song Of Praise
- Crescent
- I Want To Talk About You
- The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
- Living Space
- Central Park West
- Like Sonny
- With Gratitude
- Configuration
- Jimmy's Mode
- Spiritual
- Trance
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Music Review: A MASTERFUL COLTRANE TRIBUTE BY STEVE KUHN & TRIO WITH JOE LOVANO
Rating: 5 Stars
Five ENJOYABLE Stars!! A wonderful tribute to John Coltrane by jazz master pianist Steve Kuhn and his trio with special guest tenor sax titan Joe Lovano. Jazz history tells us John Coltrane hired Steve Kuhn as his first pianist just after the "Giant Steps" recording, along with Steve Davis on bass & Pete La Roca (Sims) on drums, as 'Trane was preparing for his first two-week appearance with a working band at the Jazz Gallery in NYC. In a highly-charged 'revival'-like atmosphere, the audience response caused the gig to be extended many weeks. Kuhn manned the piano chair of this exciting group for 8 weeks before McCoy Tyner joined the group, with Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison joining later. Kuhn says working with Coltrane, his music, and energy is "something that will stay with me and has stayed with me as long as I live." For 5 decades, Kuhn has remained at the top of his 'two-handed pianist' game, among the greatest pianists and trio leaders in jazz history with longtime trio mates like Ron Carter and Al Foster. Tenor sax colossus Joe Lovano is also influenced by Coltrane, as well as Sonny Rollins, and upon first hearing him decades ago I immediately could tell his synthesis of influences was creating a new important tenor sax voice. He has since gone on to be a relentless musical explorer, like Kuhn, who has soared to the top of tenor sax jazz polls many times, certifying him among the best of all time. Mr Kuhn's trio is rounded out by two more longtime talented stablemates: the fiery Joey Baron on drums and David Finck's crucial bass underpinning. Kuhn has selected a wide spectrum of Coltrane music from the early 'running the changes' days, to the Hartman 'ballad days', to the "controlled free jazz" period and 'Trane's final 'sunship' period that was headed out of the known musical universe at the time of Coltrane's untimely death at age 40. One of Coltrane's favorite standards, "The Night Has A Thousand Eyes", and Kuhn's own "Trance" round out the set.
The 'best of the best' begins with a sizzling "Song of Praise'' with Kuhn igniting a masterful solo and demonstrating his amazing ambidexterity while digging deep into the blues, showing what probably attracted Trane to his playing. Lovano's solo is no less masterful showing some Coltrane roots as a teaser but in the final analysis it's pure "Joe". "Jimmy's Mode" (for Garrison) allows Finck to go arco and demonstrate some strong imaginative solo plucking. "Spiritual" has Lovano playing some deep, heartfelt tárogató, a perfect alternative to Coltrane's soprano sax. Steve Kuhn is one of jazz' premier piano balladeers and he unleashes his arsenal on the trio's "I Want To Talk About You". An edgy "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" is pure jazz fire with Baron and Finck pushing the front line into some memorable solos with Lovano smearing 'glisses', avoiding Trane's 'sheets of sound' approach (straight to my iPod). "Like Sonny" is Trane's song dedicated to Sonny Rollins and is a great quartet performance. "Central Park West", arguably Coltrane's most recorded composition, is a thing of passionate beauty (another for my iPod.) "Living Space" perfecty captures Coltrane's spirituality period with Lovano's great solo over Kuhn's shimmering chords, with 'Trane's influence peeking around the corners. This tribute is a great set of hard-swinging cookers, beautiful impressionistic ballads, and Coltrane classics by two jazz masters who know their Coltrane well and it gets my Highest Recommendation. Five "HUGE" Stars
(This review is based on an iTunes download and the "Traneumentary" podcast which also gets my highest recommendation. For an overview of Steve Kuhn's recordings, go to: http://www.amazon.com/WELCOME-TO-THE-WORLD-OF-JAZZ-PIANIST-STEVE-KUHN/lm/R1F3KXQOY58W3N/ref=cm_lm_byauthor_title_full )
Description of Mostly Coltrane (Ocrd)
A celebration of the magisterial music of John Coltrane. In 1960 Steve Kuhn was the original pianist in John Coltrane's quartet, preceding McCoy Tyner. The album is an homage to Coltrane's music and influence, focussing on music either written by him or strongly associated with him. Particularly fascinating is the scope of material selected, which not only includes tunes Kuhn once played with Coltrane - "Central Park West", "The Night Has A Thousand Eyes", "I Want To Talk About You" - but goes right through Coltrane's life, including pieces from the very final months, such as "Configuration" and "Jimmy's Mode"... These tremendous group performances, with Kuhn joined by Joe Lovano, a musician many critics believe to be the world's premier tenor player right now, effectively retrace Coltrane's last decade.Jazz CDs
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