Promises Kept (Steve Kuhn album)

Promises Kept is an album by American jazz pianist and composer Steve Kuhn with strings recorded in 2000 and released on the ECM label.^[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars stating "this is one of the finest recordings Kuhn has ever issued. Simply put, for all the decades spent adventuring on the boundaries where various traditions blur, the pianist and composer articulate direct emotion as the most effective communicator here, no matter what terrain is navigated in form. A breathtaking and intimate outing, this is a career-topping effort".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Steve Kuhn

1. "Lullaby" - 4:44
2. "Life's Backward Glance" - 4:59
3. "Trance" - 8:08
4. "Morning Dew" - 5:28
5. "Promises Kept" - 5:14
6. "Adagio" - 7:25
7. "Celtic Princess" - 5:06
8. "Nostalgia" - 5:22
9. "Oceans in the Sky" - 5:32
10. "Pastorale" 5:40

• Recorded at Edison Studios in New York City in June and September 2000

Personnel

• Steve Kuhn - piano
• David Finck - bass

String Ensemble conducted by Carlos Franzetti

• Violins - Krista Bennion Feeney, Elizabeth Lim-Dutton, Richard Sortomme, Karl Kawahara, Barry Finclair, Helen Kim, Robert Shaw, Carol Pool, Anca Nicolau
• Violas - Sue Pray, Vince Lionti, Karen Ritscher
• Celli - Stephanie Cummins, Richard Locker, Joshua Gordon

References