Three Waves

Steve Kuhn Trio

"Hearing the Steve Kuhn Trio at his best -as it is on this record- one is made aware of the intricacy, the passion and the great beauty of jazz improvisation."

- Don Heckman


Tracklisting:

01. Ida Lupino (Bley) - 2:37
02. Ah-Moore (Cohn) - 3:27
03. Today I Am a Man (Kuhn) - 5:56
04. Memory (Kuhn) - 2:41
05. Why Did I Choose You? (Leonard) - 2:55
06. Three Waves (Mihanovich) - 6:56
07. Never Let Me Go (Evans/Livingston) - 3:02
08. Bits and Pieces (Kuhn) - 4:44
09. Kodpiece (Kuhn) - 0:21

Recorded in New York City, 1966.

Personnel:
Steve Kuhn (p), Steve Swallow (b) and Pete La Roca (d).


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Review:

"Don't be fooled by the relative calm of “Ida Lupino", which opens the set and could make you think here's a distant relative of the Bleys. In fact, it's a fierce and intense event for most of its length. Steve Swallow and Pete La Roca partner Kuhn, offering some serious interaction with the pianist. Critical mass tends to be achieved on Kuhn's originals, though perhaps the brief reworking of the standard “Never Let Me Go" best lets you see the intellectual density that underpins the action. Made in 1966, this is a real chance for comparison with Kuhn's more easily available later work. At only a little over the half-hour, it was brief even by the (LP) standards of the time, but value doesn't always -if ever - reside in length. One they made earlier, Pete La Roca's 1965 Basra, adding Joe Henderson for Blue Note, was briefly around on CD in 1995. If you can find it, it will tell you more about this fine group: if you already have it, you need this."

Jack Cooke -Jazz Review, January 2004.

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