Curtis J Stewart - of Love. (2023)

On June 2, 2023, GRAMMY-nominated violinist and composer Curtis Stewart releases of Love., an album dedicated to his mother, Elektra Kurtis-Stewart, who died of brain cancer on Sept. 7, 2021, at age 66. “He is a giant… combining omnivory and brilliance” (The New York Times), “a gem of a string player” (The Strad), “whose über passionate and virtuosic outpourings… grapple with reconciling the classical and jazz camps” (Downbeat Magazine). On of Love., a through-composed collection of 20 works, Curtis Stewart celebrates the perseverance of Kurtis-Stewart, a violinist and composer herself. Recorded in his late mother’s Upper West Side, Manhattan, apartment — the apartment where Stewart was raised, the apartment where he cared for his mom during her dying days — of Love. is a requiem to cherish life, time, and lifetimes.

Tracklist
1. i. Remember (01:18)
2. ii. Gone - The Happy Blues (00:44)
3. iii. Present Tense (02:49)
4. iv. Thalassaki Mou (04:46)
5.v. low (03:01)
6. vi. krishna - (improvisations on Alice Coltrane's krishna krishna) (04:02)
7. vii. Adagio from Johannes Brahms Violin Sonata No 1 Op 78 (We are going to be OK) (05:16)
8. viii. Body and Soul (03:38)
9. ix. Gone… (00:43)
10. x. She Goes Away (01:07)
11. xi. Here (03:50)
12. xii. Embrace (11:10)
13. xiii. Gone. (01:04)
14. xiv. dream it. (05:34)
15. xv. She Goes Away. (01:26)
16. xvi. Pisces (02:09)
17. xvii. City's Son (improvisations on Duke Ellington's Take the A-Train) (03:50)
18. xviii. GONE (01:42)
19. xvix. Drift to Wake (07:36)
20. xx. Remember them (08:48)