Release Date: 29 June 2009
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602527011141
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
'Mostly Coltrane' pays tribute to a musician of towering importance - and for Steve Kuhn it's an album of powerful memories. For two months in 1960, Kuhn, then just 21 years old, was the pianist in John Coltrane's quartet: an unforgettable experience for a young musician, to embark each night into jazz of such torrential emotional intensity. Half-a-century later, joined by a team of gifted collaborators playing at the top of their form, Kuhn re-channels the energies of the era in an album of astonishing invention and wild beauty.
Kuhn and Joe Lovano improvise gloriously together, riding the surging waves of Joey Baron's polyrhythms, in a programme of tunes written by or strongly associated with Coltrane. The music is indeed mostly Coltrane: tracks include "Welcome", "Song of Praise", "Central Park West", "Spiritual" and more. The album was recorded last December at New York's Avatar Studio.
Personnel: Joe Lovano (tenor saxophone and tarogato), Steve Kuhn (piano), David Finck (double-bass), Joey Baron (drums)
Tracklisting
Zehetmair Quartett
Meredith Monk; Ellen Fisher; Katie Geissinger; Joanna Lynn-Jacobs; Allison Sniffin; John Hollenbeck
Sokratis Sinopoulos; Yann Keerim
Steve Tibbetts; Marc Anderson; J.T. Bates
Tord Gustavsen; Harald Johnsen; Jarle Vespestad
Wolfgang Muthspiel; Scott Colley; Brian Blade
Maxim Rysanov; Dasol Kim; Roman Mints; Kristina Blaumane; BBC Concert Orchestra; Dobrinka Tabakova
John Taylor; Marc Johnson; Joey Baron
Lafayette Harris Jr.
Brandon Sanders
Joe Locke & Phil Markowitz
Ensemble Fur Neue Musik Zurich
Rebecca Trescher
Lennart Ginman, Thomas Blachman & Carsten Dahl
Doug Raney Quartet
Nigel Price Organ Trio
