of Love. by Curtis Stewart

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	1:18

2.	ii. Gone - The Happy Blues	0:45

3.	iii. Present Tense	2:50

4.	iv. Thalassaki Mou	4:47

5.	v. low	3:01

6.	vi. krishna - (improvisations on Alice Coltrane's krishna krishna)	4:03

7.	vii. Adagio from Johannes Brahms Violin Sonata No 1 Op 78 (We are going to be OK)	5:17

8.	viii. Body and Soul	3:38

9.	ix. Gone...	0:43

10.	x. She Goes Away	1:08

11.	xi. Here	3:51

12.	xii. Embrace	11:10

13.	xiii. Gone.	1:04

14.	xiv. dream it.	5:34

15.	xv. She Goes Away.	1:26

16.	xvi. Pisces	2:09

17.	xvii. City's Son (improvisations on Duke Ellington's Take the A-Train)	3:51

18.	xviii. GONE	1:42

19.	xvix. Drift to Wake	7:37

20.	xx. Remember them	8:49

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Credits

released June 2, 2023

Violin, Composition, Arrangements, Lyrics, Vocals, Recorded, Edited, Mixed, Mastered by - Curtis Stewart

Additional Mastering - Derek Linzy
Additional Production - Dave Veslocki
Photo - Marilena Arvelo
Album Art - Meg Pickarski
Dedicated to my mother, Elektra Kurtis Stewart - 1955-2021

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