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
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra; German Hornsound; Olari Elts
Bennie Maupin; Herbie Hancock; Buster Williams; Frederick Waits; Billy Hart; Bill Summers; Charles
Arve Henriksen; Trygve Seim; Anders Jormin; Markku Ounaskari
Joe Lovano; Marcin Wasilewski Trio
Chick Corea
Savina Yannatou; Primavera en Salonico; Lamia Bedioui
Vijay Iyer; Wadada Leo Smith
Anouar Brahem; Anja Lechner; Django Bates; Dave Holland
Michel Petrucciani Trio
Lagon Nwar
Bruno Angelini
Fabrice Moreau
Ensemble l'Imaginaire
Joe Webb
Donny McCaslin
Kai Craig
