Motility (album)

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Motility
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Studio album by
Steve Kuhn and Ecstasy
ReleasedApril 1977 [1]
RecordedJanuary 1977
StudioTonstudio Bauer
Ludwigsburg, W. Germany
Genre Jazz
Length44:31
Label ECM
ECM 1094 ST
Producer Manfred Eicher
Steve Kuhn chronology
Trance
(1975)		Motility
(1977)		 Non-Fiction
(1978)

Motility is an album by American jazz pianist Steve Kuhn, recorded for ECM in January 1977 and released in April later that year, Kuhn's second album with his Ecstasy quartet, featuring saxophonist Steve Slagle and rhythm section Harvie Swartz and Michael Smith. [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Globe and Mail wrote that the music "[falls] in line somewhere between Chick Corea (from his early Return to Forever period) and McCoy Tyner, with some of the former's lyricism and a hint of the latter's energy." [4]

The AllMusic review by Ken Dryden states, "This is one of Steve Kuhn's more unusual studio sessions... At times, the pianist seems less like a post-bop musician and more like someone dabbling in new-age music." [3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Steve Kuhn except as noted.

Side I
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."The Rain Forest" 6:13
2."Oceans in the Sky" 5:07
3."Catherine"Harvie Swartz5:34
4."Bittersweet Passages" 4:54
Total length:21:48
Side II
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Deep Tango" 7:27
2."Motility / The Child Is Gone" 7:21
3."A Danse for One" 3:03
4."Places I've Never Been"Swartz4:52
Total length:22:43 44:31

Personnel

Ecstasy

Technical personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Motility". ECM .
  2. ↑ ECM discography accessed September 8, 2011
  3. 1 2 Dryden, K. Allmusic Review accessed September 8, 2011
  4. ↑ Miller, Mark (8 June 1978). "More jazz than fans downtown". The Globe and Mail. p. P13.
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