Results for "Heartcore Records"

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2024

If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

Undercover: Live At The Village Vanguard

By Kurt Rosenwinkel

Label: Heartcore Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Cycle Five; The Past Intact; Solé; Our Secret World; Music; Undercover.

October 2023: An Improvised Paradise

by Pat Youngspiel
October 11, 2023

The Angelica Sanchez Nonet Nighttime Creatures Pyroclastic Records 2023 One rarely gets to hear the contra-alto clarinet--an instrument mainly developed in the 20th century with a range extending downwards to the lower E-flat (concert G-flat), sometimes even a D or a C. On the introductory title cut of Nighttime Creatures, however, ...

August 2023

by Pat Youngspiel
July 31, 2023

PJEV-Kit Downes-Hayden Chisholm Medna Roso Red Hook 2023 With the third release on his Red Hook label it is becoming increasingly clear that producer Sun Chung isn't trying to box his label's musical output into any specific jazz styling or avant-garde field of experimentation, but rather that music can and should ...

Kurt Rosenwinkel: Undercover: Live At The Village Vanguard

by Chris May
July 18, 2023

Kurt Rosenwinkel records in a variety of situations, either from inclination or to keep himself and his audience fresh or both. In 2022 alone, he released three unusually diverse albums: Plays Piano, a solo outing on which he plays piano only; The Chopin Project, a co-led disc with pianist Jean-Paul Brodbeck exploring the work of Frederic ...

Kurt Rosenwinkel: Berlin Baritone

by Dave Linn
July 13, 2023

Born in 1970, in Philadelphia, Kurt Rosenwinkel began playing guitar at a young age and quickly demonstrated a remarkable talent and an innovative playing style. Later, he studied music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. It was during this time that he began to attract attention within the jazz community for his unique approach ...

Berlin Baritone

Label: Heartcore Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Peace Please; Just Chillin; First Impression; Feelin The Blues; Under It All; Mellow D; Life Of A Flower; Zarathustra; Metro City.

Angels Around

By Kurt Rosenwinkel

Label: Heartcore Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Ugly Beauty; Ease It; Self Portrait in Three Colors; Simple #2; Punjab; Time Remembered; Angels Around

Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio: Angels Around

by Geno Thackara
July 8, 2020

However much Kurt Rosenwinkel has audaciously wandered away from familiar tracks in his career, the spirit of jazz has always stayed central to his roots and his playing. For every surprising exploration such as the electronic Heartcore (Verve, 2003) or the richly dense Caipi (Heartcore, 2017), there's been a relatively straightforward jam or standards date for ...

Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio: Angels Around

by Mark Sullivan
May 28, 2020

Jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel's previous album Caipi (Heartcore Records, 2017) was unique in his discography. Not just original music—that was true of many of his previous records—but Brazilian influenced, and featuring his vocals. This set is a call back to the Kurt Rosenwinkel Standards Trio's Reflections (WOMMUSIC, 2009): a selection of mostly modern jazz standards, played ...