Results for "Kurt Rosenwinkel"

Kurt Rosenwinkel

by Bill Milkowski
October 24, 2009

It's a pleasant Saturday afternoon at Brooklyn Recording in the charming, gentrified neighborhood of Carroll Gardens, the third day of sessions with guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Eric Harland. They've been at it all day, flowing from take to take with wide-open abandon. It's a green light session--there are no mistakes, they just ...

Kurt Rosenwinkel "Standards Trio" Interview Part Two

October 12, 2009

Kurt Rosenwinkel "Standards Trio" Video Clip and Interview Part One

October 12, 2009

A Jazz Guitarist Applies His Method to the Classics

October 5, 2009

It could be argued that the practice of jazz in the last 10 years has been more original than at any time in the past. By original I don’t mean unprecedented; that’s a word for publicists, not musicians. I mean newly composed, rather than covering old songs or their chord changes. The guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel is ...

AllAboutJazz-New York October 2009 Issue Now Available!

September 28, 2009

When talking about the impact of Thelonious Monk, where does one begin? Is it his inimitable style and approach to the piano, one still being dissected today worldwide? Is it his body of compositional work, music absolutely essential to the repertoire of both the most straightahead and avant garde groups? Or perhaps his persona, defining the ...

Take Five With Trey Wright

by AAJ Staff
September 7, 2009

Meet Trey Wright: Trey Wright is a jazz guitarist, composer, and recording artist based in Roswell, Ga. While studying Sociology at the University of Georgia, Trey studied jazz improvisation with pianist and composer Steve Dancz. In 1994, he co-founded the Athens/Atlanta based jazz band Squat. The group is a six-time winner of Best Jazz Band at ...

Announcing New Recommendations at Rifftides

September 5, 2009

Eddie Higgins, Standards by Request, 1st Day and 2nd Day(Venus). Among those mourning Higgins' death are virtually all other jazz pianists and the Japanese. He was a celebrity among the large and enthusiastic coterie of listeners in Japan who are devoted to piano jazz. Higgins recorded nearly two dozen albums for Japan's Venus label. These solo ...

Joel Frahm / Bruce Katz: Project A

by Mark F. Turner
August 29, 2009

Joel Frahm and Bruce Katz's Project A is not a codename for a scientific research program or some covert operation, but, instead, a finger-snapping, toe-tapping tribute to the original Queen of Soul, singer Aretha Franklin. Frahm, a superlative saxophonist who has worked with Maynard Ferguson, Brad Mehldau and Kurt Rosenwinkel, is joined by ...

Take Five With Jake Hanlon

by AAJ Staff
August 8, 2009

Meet Jake Hanlon: Performer, composer and educator, Jake Hanlon currently resides in Antigonish Nova Scotia, a Professor of Music at Saint Francis Xavier University. A native of Nova Scotia Canada, Hanlon has had the opportunity to work some of the brightest and talented students and teachers in the world. In 2003 he graduated with Honors from ...

Eric Revis: Laughter's Necklace of Tears

by David Adler
August 6, 2009

Best known for his decade-plus with the Branford Marsalis Quartet, bassist Eric Revis has also thrived in trio settings with Avram Fefer, Peter Brötzmann and most recently Kurt Rosenwinkel, playing everything from pure straight-ahead to absolutely free. He debuted as a leader in 2004 with Tales of the Stuttering Mime (11:11), and he imbues his sophomore ...