Steve Kuhn
Play Radio
Listen to Steve Kuhn Radio,
featuring artists like Enrico Pieranunzi, Paul Motian, Paul Bley, Kenny Barron and more…
-
Search on Spotify
Yes, it scrobbles! Learn more
153,875 plays (25,702 listeners)
Born in Brooklyn in 1938, 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 Chaloff, 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, amongst other visiting celebrities, Coleman Hawkins, Chet Baker and Vic Dickenson.
After graduation from Harvard College, Kuhn attended the Lenox School of Music where he recorded with 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 period with Art Farmer, he formed the first Steve Kuhn Trio, with drummer Pete LaRoca and bassist Steve Swallow. At the end of the 1960s he spent four years living in Europe, where his performance 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 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 Chaloff, 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, amongst other visiting celebrities, Coleman Hawkins, Chet Baker and Vic Dickenson.
After graduation from Harvard College, Kuhn attended the Lenox School of Music where he recorded with 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 period with Art Farmer, he formed the first Steve Kuhn Trio, with drummer Pete LaRoca and bassist Steve Swallow. At the end of the 1960s he spent four years living in Europe, where his performance 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”.
Shouts:
11 shouts
Top Albums
-
Oceans In The Sky
Steve Kuhn
Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $7.99
- 7digital $9.99
- iTunes $9.90
- Buy Album
- Amazon $8.61
- eBay Search
-
Love Walked In
Steve Kuhn Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $7.99
- 7digital Search
- iTunes Search
- Buy Album
- Amazon $16.32
- eBay Search
-
Trance
Steve Kuhn Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $8.99
- 7digital Search
- iTunes $11.99
- Buy Album
- Amazon $19.80
- eBay Search
-
Quiéreme Mucho
Steve Kuhn Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $5.34
- 7digital $9.99
- iTunes Search
- Buy Album
- Amazon $16.33
- eBay Search
Shoutbox
-
Mimi1958 wrote:
Ulla für Ulla!!!
-
smacw wrote:
this guy kisses his stepdad and plays wow with his mom
-
j33433 wrote:
Saw him at Birdland last week. Wonderful show.
-
JEWiae wrote:
last tango in paris
-
yaxchejin wrote:
Transcends brilliant -- pure genius!
-
Bram_F. wrote:
great pianist
-
outerspace843 wrote:
i love trance album the world describes the whole album...
-
fleadilla wrote:
3 shouts? lame. a proper ecm artist with a release like trance should get more props. steve kuhn absolutely slayed on the electric rhoades on "a change of face" on his 1974 album entitled "trance". fucking proper, that was. "something everywhere" was also a beat on that album. jack dejohnette cold killing it on every track! badder than a motherfucker! GET ON IT!@
-
govinda9 wrote:
Infaltable en la audioteca de los amantes de la música no sólo jazz. Kuhn es uno de los pianistas que realmente remueve los sentimientos y la sensibilidad cuando lo escuchas. Vale tan solo con recordar su disco Ecstasy........... Para Jazz-Haus no debe faltar este importante compositor.
-
SirAlecHendrix wrote:
Steve Kuhn—now playing in the brandnew ➤ j a z z | h a u s ➤
-
LAMAMACHA wrote:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Videos
Top Listeners
-
Nellone
Top Listener
-
kazu0719
Top Listener
-
dankesaru3
Top Listener
-
humanfeelings
Top Listener
Recent Activity
-
bygonerr, Saskatchewan_, Ombaoojiebaseo and 4 other people added Steve Kuhn to their libraries. 9 hours ago
-
medvardsen tagged Steve Kuhn with ecm, piano and jazz. last month
-
medvardsen, augusteleven, dzacharyt and 13 other people added Steve Kuhn to their libraries. last month
-
Madrangue tagged Steve Kuhn with have to check and jazz. November 2011
-
Madrangue and Bennosh added Steve Kuhn to their libraries. November 2011
-
leutzscher tagged Steve Kuhn with instrumental: jazz, ecm records, steve kuhn and 5 other tags. November 2011
-
NJBlessing added Steve Kuhn to NJBlessing’s library. November 2011
-
leutzscher tagged Steve Kuhn with modern jazz, steve kuhn, contemporary jazz and 3 other tags. November 2011
-
TheDigs, Souta165 and fpetretti added Steve Kuhn to their libraries. November 2011
-
alexiliopoulos tagged Steve Kuhn with contemporary jazz, jazz piano, piano and one other tag. November 2011
Related Journals
-
Recommended Songs
by McSplivens |
7 Feb 2010
-
My Monthly Mixtapes from 2009
by muzikizum |
31 Jan 2010
| 1 comment
-
IL JAZZ A BOLOGNA: IL BOLOGNA JAZZ FESTIVAL
by pressjazz |
24 Oct 2008
Groups (7)
-
j a z z | h a u s
265 members
-
Serralves
188 members
-
aziza mustafa zadeh
146 members
-
music is our soundtrack to the cinema called my Life
126 members
-
Bill Evans
54 members
More Information
- Links
- Labels
Email Newsletter
Get exclusive tour, release & promotion updates on Steve Kuhn from Universal Music.
