''Promises Kept'' is an album by American jazz pianist and composer

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—credited to Steve Kuhn with Strings—recorded in 2000 and released on ECM in April 2004. Kuhn is backed by bassist

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and a fifteen-strong string ensemble conducted by

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review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars stating "this is one of the finest recordings Kuhn has ever issued. Simply put, for all the decades spent adventuring on the boundaries where various traditions blur, the pianist and composer articulate direct emotion as the most effective communicator here, no matter what terrain is navigated in form. A breathtaking and intimate outing, this is a career-topping effort."Jurek, T
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Track listing

Personnel

Steve Kuhn with Strings

– piano *

– double-bass *

– conductor ** Krista Bennion Feeney, Elizabeth Lim-Dutton, Richard Sortomme, Karl Kawahara, Barry Finclair, Helen Kim, Robert Shaw, Carol Pool, Anca Nicolau – violins ** Sue Pray, Vince Lionti, Karen Ritscher – violas ** Stephanie Cummins, Richard Locker, Joshua Gordon – celli

Technical personnel

* Arthur Moorhead – producer *

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Manfred Eicher Manfred Eicher (born 9 July 1943) is a German record producer and the founder of ECM Records. Life and career Eicher was born in Lindau, Germany. He studied music at the Academy of Music in Berlin. He started as a double-bass player of classic ...

– remixing, mastering * Gary Chester – recording engineer ** Yvonne Yedibalian – assistant recording engineer * Sascha Kleis – design * Liner Notes – Bob Blumenthal – liner notes * Dieter Rehm – cover photography * Robert Lewis – liner photography

References

{{Authority control ECM Records albums Steve Kuhn albums 2004 albums Albums produced by Manfred Eicher