{"id":4496,"date":"2013-02-26T15:47:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T23:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4496"},"modified":"2013-02-26T23:04:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T07:04:06","slug":"a-jazz-festival-moment-steve-kuhn-on-bill-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/02\/a-jazz-festival-moment-steve-kuhn-on-bill-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"A Jazz Festival Moment: Steve Kuhn On Bill Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Steve-Kuhn-ca-1957.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Steve-Kuhn-ca-1957.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Kuhn ca 1957\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Steve-Kuhn-ca-1957.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Steve-Kuhn-ca-1957-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Steve-Kuhn-ca-1957-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a>In a Portland festival conversation at the Art Bar, interviewer Tim DuRoche questioned pianist Steve Kuhn (pictured ca 1960) about first hearing Bill Evans. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Did it rattle you a little bit?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d DuRoche asked. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It did, because we were sort of on parallel paths. I heard him for the first time in 1957 up at Brandeis University, where he was doing a concert with George Russell. When I heard him play and after I listened to a couple of his recordings, I said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My goodness, this is what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m trying to do, but he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already doing it, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to somehow absorb that and then continue to find my own voice,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which I think I have over the years. But initially, it was an epiphany. Bill was like a big brother to me and, uh\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kuhn breathed deeply, swallowed hard and held up a hand signaling a pause that lasted half a minute or so. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Excuse me; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fatigue and emotion\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6when I came to New York he was very helpful, introducing me to different people and recommending me for jobs. So, we hung out quite a bit. He was a very special person. We stayed pretty close all of his life. Bill was helpful to me, very helpful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can listen to audio of the Kuhn interview and nine other PDX festival jazz conversations at the <em>Oregon Music News<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonmusicnews.com\/podcast\/\"target=\"_blank\">podcast page<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>The Bill Evans-George Russell performance of &#8220;All About Rosie&#8221; that impressed Kuhn at Brandeis is incuded on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Brandeis-Jazz-Festival-Evans-Orchestra\/dp\/B000AN025K\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\">this CD<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Portland festival conversation at the Art Bar, interviewer Tim DuRoche questioned pianist Steve Kuhn (pictured ca 1960) about first hearing Bill Evans. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Did it rattle you a little bit?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d DuRoche asked. It did, because we were sort of on parallel paths. I heard him for the first time in 1957 up at Brandeis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}