Jazz Articles about Kurt Rosenwinkel

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Kurt Rosenwinkel: Heartcore

by Matt Merewitz
October 28, 2003

It took long enough, but guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel has outdone himself on Heartcore, co-produced with hip-hopper Q-Tip. Fans of his seemingly ancient 2001 release The Next Step will love Heartcore for its continuity in the “Rosenwinkelian” vein of brashly inventive and original melodies and harmonies (enhanced by ambient noise and the simultaneous echo of his voice mirroring his fluid guitar lines). Very few tunes are in 4/4 time. Very few tunes sound like anything else he's done before. But they ...

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Matt Penman: The Unquiet

by Phil DiPietro
August 14, 2002

Either Matt Penman wrote his own bio or paid a comedian friend (who knows a thing or two about the jazz world) to write it for him. It contains the following gems that lend humorous light to the how and why he eventually grew up to be a beautifully introspective, reflective composer, to wit: “The introduction by an insistent school teacher of Jazz music into the mix was of course life-altering, as now there was a legitimate reason to not ...

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Kurt Rosenwinkel: The Next Step

by C. Andrew Hovan
February 1, 2001

When you stop to think about it, there are relatively few guitarists on the current jazz scene working to go beyond the boundaries of a mainstream manifesto. Sure, you've got talented youngsters such as Russell Malone, Peter Bernstein, and many others functioning within the tradition. But even as endowed as these guys are, they have not chosen to see outside of the box in the same manner that Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell have. This is not to dismiss the ...

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Kurt Rosenwinkel: The Next Step

by Glenn Astarita
February 1, 2001

Electric guitarist/composer Kurt Rosenwinkel extends his wares while attaining or perhaps advancing to loftier heights on his second release for “Verve” records, titled The Next Step. Here, the guitarist and long time band-mate, tenor saxophonist Mark Turner share the bulk of the soloing in conjunction with bassist Ben Street and drummer Jeff Ballard who provide the powerful yet often agile support throughout this classy outing.

Rosenwinkel artfully inaugurates the proceedings via his crisp, multihued tonalities, wordless vocals and altogether attractive ...

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Kurt Rosenwinkel: The Next Step

by Glenn Astarita
February 1, 2001

Electric guitarist/composer Kurt Rosenwinkel extends his wares while attaining or perhaps advancing to loftier heights on his second release for “Verve” records, titled The Next Step. Here, the guitarist and long time band-mate, tenor saxophonist Mark Turner share the bulk of the soloing in conjunction with bassist Ben Street and drummer Jeff Ballard who provide the powerful yet often agile support throughout this classy outing.

Rosenwinkel artfully inaugurates the proceedings via his crisp, multihued tonalities, wordless vocals and altogether attractive ...

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Kurt Rosenwinkel: The Enemies of Energy

by David Adler
February 1, 2000

The material that would eventually become Kurt Rosenwinkel's Verve debut was recorded back in late 1996. Lacking a record deal, Rosenwinkel scraped up the money to record his group independently and has managed, at long last and through much perseverance, to make the results public. So listeners ought to keep in mind that on this disc, they're hearing where the young guitar phenom was at over three years ago.Rosenwinkel has done quite a bit since then. During his ...

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Kurt Rosenwinkel: Intuit

by C. Andrew Hovan
October 1, 1999

Among the current crop of guitarists who are exploring new horizons and gathering an underground following, Ben Monder and Kurt Rosenwinkel are two of the finest players in terms of how they have mastered the tradition and then use that as a launching pad for their own particular tangents. Rosenwinkel has been heard to great advantage lately in a group that he leads at Smalls in New York. He has also been featured with saxophonists Seamus Blake and Mark Turner, ...