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Joachim Kuhn - Touch the Light (2021)
26-04-2021, 21:42 | Автор: Gunpowder | Категория: Классика
Joachim Kuhn  - Touch the Light  (2021)

Исполнитель: Joachim Kuhn
Название диска: Touch the Light
Лейбл: ACT Music
Страна: Germany
Жанр: Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz
Год выпуска: 2021
Количество треков: 13
Формат: MP3
Качество: 320 kbps
Время звучания: 00:47:14
Размер файла: 115,78 МБ

Треклист:

01. Warm Canto (Waldron) – 2:54
02. Allegretto, Symphony No.7 (Beethoven) – 3:56
03. A Remark You Made (Zawinul) – 3:39
04. Sintra (Kuhn) – 3:17
05. Ponta de Areia (Nascimento) – 2:29
06. Redemption Song (Marley) – 3:50
07. Touch the Light (Kuhn) – 3:39
08. Fever (Davenport-Cooley) – 3:14
09. Blue Velvet (Wayne-Morris) – 2:56
10. Stardust (Carmichael) – 4:41
11. Purple Rain (Prince) – 4:39
12. Last Tango in Paris (Barbieri) – 4:45
13. Peace Piece (Evans) – 3:15

Album Notes

_Maybe when I_m ninety_?_ When Siggi Loch first floated the idea that Joachim Kuhn might like to make an album of ballads, the pianist_s response was typically jocular, even defi-ant. That initial resistance didn_t last long, however. Kuhn, now in his mid-seventies, soon started to settle down at the fine Steinway in his home _ he keeps it impeccably tuned _ to switch on his DAT recorder, and set to work. _The advantage of being here at home in Ibiza is that I can simply make a re-cording when I want to. When the feeling comes, I just re-cord,_ Kuhn reflects.
Over a period of about fifteen months he sent a total of some forty individual tracks to Siggi Loch. He would often take pieces, re-think them, and end up sending off sever-al different versions to Berlin. So what emerges on this new solo piano album “Touch the Light” is a distillation from those individual takes, all made on the same piano and in the same space. It flows extremely well as a coherent and delightful programme.
There are pieces here which re-visit important phases in a fascinating and varied career. _A Remark You Made_ by Joe Zawinul has a special and deep personal resonance for Kuhn. It takes him straight back to a pivotal moment: Zawinul was a juror at the 1966 Gulda competition in Vienna, the event which facilitated the 22-year-old pianist_s escape from East Germany. Gato Barbieri_s theme from _Last Tango In Paris_ recalls not just the fact that Barbieri enlisted Kuhn in 1972 to play on the soundtrack, but it is also a tune he would play countless times later, in his trio with Daniel Humair and Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark. And the Allegretto from Beethoven_s 7th Symphony not only brings to the fore a composer whose music has always made the deepest of impressions on Kuhn, but also the fact that his physical resemblance to Beethoven often resul-ted in fellow musicians _ notably Gordon Beck, with whom he worked on the Piano Conclave project in the 1970_s _ giving him the nickname Beethoven.
The variety of Kuhn_s pianism in this collection is quite remarkable. The listener is first welcomed into the inviting, comforting and regular pulse of Mal Waldron_s _Warm Canto_. And yet later, by complete contrast, Kuhn_s own composition _Sintra_ gives a masterclass in freedom, delay, and the alche-mical art of keeping the listener waiting on tenterhooks. Prince_s _Velvet Rain_ is achingly soulful, whereas Kuhn found the encouragement to re-visit Bill Evans_ _Peace Piece_ from the dignity and restraint of classical pianist Igor Levit_s version of it.
Joachim Kuhn can show us ineffable lightness of touch in the Allegretto from Beethoven_s Seventh Symphony. But he can also be forceful, as he gives full and sonorous arm-weight to Barbieri_s _Last Tango_ theme. There are also homages to the melodic gifts of some reeds players: _Warm Canto_ recalls the way Eric Dolphy on clarinet hovers over the melody on the album _The Quest_, and the spaciousness of Milton Nascimento_s composition _Ponta de Areia_ clearly keeps in mind the airy, touchingly lyrical voice of the great Wayne Shorter.
Above all, however, it is in the simplicity and the sheer delight in melody of his own compositions that Kuhn both touches the heart and gives us the greatest surprises on this album. _Sintra_ is a tune written down in a peaceful mo-ment outside a cafe in the one-time sanctuary of the Portugue-se kings. And the title track _Touch the Light_ captures the beauty of the sunset over the sea that Kuhn often contemplates from his terrace. Kuhn_s remark about that tune is also true of the album as a whole: _There_s a lot of love here. And joy._

Personnel

Joachim Kuhn – piano
Recorded at Salinas Studio, Ibiza, Spain in August 2019 – October 2020.

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