CD ECM Records Steve Kuhn: Trance

1975

Steve Kuhn - pian, pian electric
Steve Swallow - bas electric
Jack DeJohnette - tobe
Sue Evans - percutie

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Steve Kuhn was already a player of legendary repute by the time he came to ECM in 1975. Fifteen years earlier he had been the original pianist in Coltrane’s first quartet. Influential work with Art Farmer and Stan Getz followed, and Kuhn’s own October Suite collaboration with Gary McFarland had established benchmarks for an emergent “chamber jazz”. With Trance, Kuhn had rich experience to draw upon. “Trance is as unpredictable as it is compelling,” declared All About Jazz., while the BBC Music Magazine noted that “you could scarcely ask for a more powerful yet responsive support team” than Swallow, DeJohnette and Evans: “Kuhn is prompted into some of his most direct, open and lyrical playing.”

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With the nostalgic sound of electric piano, near-Minimalist repetition at times and touches of tinkle-in-the –wind percussion, Steve Kuhn’s 1974 classic Trance is not just hypnotic, it’s more melodic and more intense than you might think at first. Kuhn’s effortless-sounding keyboard technique sustains every flight of his imagination as he’s borne up on the sometimes driving, sometimes lighter-than-air floating pulse of drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist Steve Swallow. On CD for the first time, it’s a must listen.
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