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In Reply to: Re: Live At Birdland - Steve Kuhn Trio posted by GEO on March 27, 2007 at 18:04:50:
Kuhn never recorded with Trane, at least not in the studio.
Giant Steps?! You've got to be kidding...
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Addicted to content-free jazz music.
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Also Cedar Walton, on alternate takes. Interesting contrast...
....how you been? I was thinking about you earlier today.
dh
I am mad buzy now - supervising the construction on a new office building, complete landscaping done from scratch on our house; pure unadulturated insanity.
Soon it'll be over...
How've you been?
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Addicted to content-free jazz music.
Busy can be hell, but it sure beats staring at the walls. Work is really getting heated up right now, but we've also had our OT option taken away for the time being, so I'm only doing 40 hours of stress a week.All in all I can't complain. Wendi's got a new job and a longer commute than either of us has had for a while now, so we're looking to replace one of the beaters with a lightly used Jetta TDI (turbo diesel). Those little 4-doors get 47 mpg, and being a diesel, they can be set up to run on used cooking oil reclaimed from restaurants, which is exactly what I plan to do. I've already got grease sources scouted out and it's full speed ahead. I'm pretty geeked about my latest geeky pursuit :-).
Also got an RB300 on the Planar 3 recently and it's done wonders for my analog chain, so that's nice too. AND, a guy just gave me a nice old Akai RTR machine last week and after some cleanup and lube, it sounds great. All told, life is pretty good.
Hope you get to have some fun and relax a bit once the madness settles for you. There'll be blindfold tests galore when you're ready.
dh
Kuhn was the pianist immmediately ahead of McCoy Tyner, I believe. He's on the first or second album Trane did for Atlantic. Can't remember which album it was though....
dh
Never on Atlantic. He was on a privately circulated live Jazz Gallery taping. I don't think it ever made a label. He was with Coltrane for a quick cup of coffee. Bam!, it was over.
bgs
Brooklyn-born Steve Kuhn was fascinated with jazz very early in his life. He began classical piano lessons at age five and soon began to "improvise and syncopate the classical repertoire."In his early teens, Kuhn studied with legendary teacher Margaret Chaloff who schooled him in the "Russian Technique", an invaluable tool for tone production and projection. Chaloff's son, Serge, baritone saxophonist for Woody Herman, hired the 13 year-old pianist to play in his group. Throughout his teens Kuhn continued to play in Boston jazz clubs with visiting celebrities; Coleman Hawkins, Chet Baker and Vic Dickenson.
After graduation from Harvard College, Kuhn attended the Lenox School of Music where he met and played in a group with fellow-students Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry. The faculty included Bill Evans, George Russell, and Gunther Schuller. While at Lenox, Kuhn met trumpeter Kenny Dorham and began a two-year stint, interrupted when Kuhn was asked to join John Coltrane's newly-formed quartet.
Kuhn next joined Stan Getz's band, which included bassist Scott LaFaro. After a year with Art Farmer, he formed the first Steve Kuhn Trio, with drummer Pete LaRoca and bassist Steve Swallow. At the end of the 1960's he spent four years living in Europe, where his performances had a significant impact upon local players. Upon returning to the United States, Kuhn began his long-term affiliation with ECM, resulting in a string of important albums including Trance, Ecstasy, Non-Fiction and the collaborations with Sheila Jordan; Playground and Last Year's Waltz.
In the mid-80's, Kuhn co-founded the popular 'All Star Trio', with bassist Ron Carter and drummer Al Foster, and launched a new and still evolving edition of his trio with bassist David Finck. Drummers for the latter have included Joey Baron (as on the ECM recording Remembering Tomorrow), Lewis Nash, Billy Drummond, Kenny Washington and Bill Stewart. In the 90's and up to the present time, he has recorded CDs for Venus, Reservoir and Sunnyside.
In 2004, Kuhn recorded Promises Kept which includes a string orchestra for ECM Records. He is most proud of this recording. Kuhn continues to tour widely throughout the world, with a strong following in Europe and especially Japan where his CDs frequently appear on the jazz charts.
...in June, 1987 with Ron Carter and Lewis Nash at a club locally (I was working there). He sounds good, introspective, impressionistic and doesn't make mistakes. I like the way he plays but some prople, I believe feel that he's a little too "dry" and at times disconnected from the audience. I like the way he plays anyway.
bgs
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