PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Steve Kuhn Revisiting an Old Boss Named John Coltrane

The pianist Steve Kuhn can play John Coltranes music meaningfully without sounding as if he lives by it. That shows self-possession, for a couple of reasons. Coltrane was the most influential jazz musician in the late 1950s and 1960s, when Mr. Kuhn got started. And Mr. Kuhn, now 71, also has something many of his peers dont: a small but significant association with Coltrane on the bandstand...

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