For a brief two-month period in 1960, the then 21-year-old Steve Kuhn sat at the piano in John Coltrane's quartet. For a young musician, it was an indescribable experience to immerse himself nightly in jazz of such tempestuous emotional depth. Half a century later, surrounded by talented colleagues at the top of their game, Kuhn re-channels the energy of that era into an album brimming with astonishing creativity and raw beauty. Kuhn and Joe Lovano together unfold glorious improvisations, carried by Joey Baron's multifaceted rhythms, in a program of pieces either composed by Coltrane or strongly associated with him. The repertoire includes, among others, "Welcome," "Song of Praise," "Central Park West," and "Spiritual." The recording took place in December 2008 at Avatar Studio in New York.
