Wisteria

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Release Date: 30th Apr 2012
Catalogue No: 2794578
Label: ECM
Length: 67 minutes

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Steve Kuhn: Chalet

Work length6:23

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Steve Kuhn (piano), Steve Swallow (double bass), Joey Baron (drums)
Recorded: 2011-09-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

Steve Kuhn: Adagio

Work length7:04

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Steve Kuhn (piano), Steve Swallow (double bass), Joey Baron (drums)
Recorded: 2011-09-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

Steve Kuhn: Morning Dew

Work length6:33

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Steve Kuhn (piano), Steve Swallow (double bass), Joey Baron (drums)
Recorded: 2011-09-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

Dori Caymmi, Traci Mann, Paulo César Pinheiro: Romance

Work length4:27

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Steve Kuhn (piano), Steve Swallow (double bass), Joey Baron (drums)
Recorded: 2011-09-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

Bley: Permanent Wave

Work length6:36

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Steve Kuhn (piano), Steve Swallow (double bass), Joey Baron (drums)
Recorded: 2011-09-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

Steve Kuhn: A Likely Story

Work length6:43

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Steve Kuhn (piano), Steve Swallow (double bass), Joey Baron (drums)
Recorded: 2011-09-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

Steve Kuhn: Pastorale

Work length6:15

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Steve Kuhn (piano), Steve Swallow (double bass), Joey Baron (drums)
Recorded: 2011-09-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

Art Farmer: Wisteria

Work length5:47

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Steve Kuhn (piano), Steve Swallow (double bass), Joey Baron (drums)
Recorded: 2011-09-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

Swallow: Dark Glasses

Work length5:52

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Steve Kuhn (piano), Steve Swallow (double bass), Joey Baron (drums)
Recorded: 2011-09-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

Steve Kuhn: Promises Kept

Work length5:31

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Steve Kuhn (piano), Steve Swallow (double bass), Joey Baron (drums)
Recorded: 2011-09-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

Swallow: Good Lookin' Rookie

Work length5:50

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Steve Kuhn (piano), Steve Swallow (double bass), Joey Baron (drums)
Recorded: 2011-09-12
Recording Venue: Avatar Studios, NYC

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Wisdom and wistfulness are intertwined in Wisteria, whose title track, written by Art Farmer, takes listeners back to the early 1960s, when both pianist Steve Kuhn and bassist Steve Swallow sang softly of the blues in the trumpeter-flugelhornist's band. The pair know each other's playing well: in accord at a very high level, they develop their improvisational ideas together and share the same love of melody.

This new album takes a fresh look at several pieces heard in Kuhn's orchestral Promises Kept collection - his robust and adaptable compositions have often lent themselves to quite different interpretations - but alongside the aching balladry there is also some driving hard bop (on 'A Likely Story'), a brace of Swallow tunes ('Dark Glasses'), Carla Bley's gospel-tinged 'Permanent Wave' and the Brazilian 'Romance' by Dori Caymmi... In all, it's a varied programme that the trio seems to sail through effortlessly, master musicians beyond the need to prove anything, creating the agreeable illusion that this demanding music is playing itself.

Early on Steve Kuhn moved in exceptional company, playing with Chet Baker and Coleman Hawkins, and then in a band with Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry. Briefly and famously, he was the first pianist of the John Coltrane Quartet and later worked with Stan Getz in a line-up with Scott LaFaro. At the end of the 1960s, Kuhn spent four years living in Europe, mostly in Scandinavia, but it was not until his return to the United States that he began his affiliation with ECM, resulting in a string of important albums. Three were reprised in the 2008 box set Life's Backward Glances: the solo album Ecstasy, and the quartet discs Motility and Playground (the latter with singer Sheila Jordan).

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