Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Kurt Rosenwinkel: The Remedy

257

Kurt Rosenwinkel: The Remedy

Kurt Rosenwinkel: The Remedy
This live double CD is Kurt Rosenwinkel's seventh record as a leader and the first to be released on ArtistShare, following five releases on Verve. Such high profile output is notable even without taking into consideration the other forty or fifty releases he's appeared on since his auspicious early departure from Berklee in the early 1990s to join Gary Burton's band.

The record was recorded live at the Village Vanguard in January 2006, with a stellar quintet featuring Rosenwinkel's longtime collaborator Mark Turner (sax) sharing the frontline and pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Joe Martin and drummer Eric Harland in the rhythm section. In presentation, the music plays a bit of a game with the listener, offering a feeling of weighty consequence that is appropriate for an ambitious double CD of live takes ranging from eleven to eighteen minutes in duration, while also celebrating the fleeting weightlessness that allows the improvising musician to slice gracefully through time itself. This is the aspect of live performance that is hardest to translate to a fixed medium like a sound recording and The Remedy does a wonderful job of being both a document of an event and an event in and of itself.

One could describe the quintet's interaction in terms of the blistering drive and endlessly unfolding statements, only if in the next breath praise was afforded to the sensitivity and profound interdependence that gives this music such seemingly unlimited depth. Compositions like "Chords," "View From Moscow" or the title track hit the ground at a purposeful stride, setting the stage for the ensuing improvisational fireworks, while "Safe Corners," "Myron's World" and "A Life Unfolds" benefit from extended unaccompanied introductions from Rosenwinkel or Turner.

Rosenwinkel's music seems to operate in service of a much higher calling. The performers contribute to ensemble cohesion essential for the proper fostering of the extremes of delicacy and strength that provide such a wide spectrum of expression.

In the credits, Rosenwinkel thanks his constituents "for their incredible musicianship and dedication to the artistic principle." This gratitude is illustrative in that it translates into the printed word something of the magic that comes to greet the listener from across the recorded medium. The virtuosity on display throughout these two discs is an unrelentingly emphatic expression of what it means to put impeccable musicianship in service of art.

Track Listing

CD1: Chords; The Remedy; Flute; A Life Unfolds. CD2: View From Moscow; Terra Nova; Safe Corners; Myron's World.

Personnel

Kurt Rosenwinkel: guitar; Mark Turner: saxophone; Aaron Goldberg: piano; Joe Martin: bass; Eric Harland: drums.

Album information

Title: The Remedy: Live at the Village Vanguard | Year Released: 2008 | Record Label: Wommusic

Tags

Comments


PREVIOUS / NEXT



Kurt Rosenwinkel Concerts


Support All About Jazz

Get the Jazz Near You newsletter All About Jazz has been a pillar of jazz since 1995, championing it as an art form and, more importantly, supporting the musicians who make it. Our enduring commitment has made "AAJ" one of the most culturally important websites of its kind, read by hundreds of thousands of fans, musicians and industry figures every month.

Go Ad Free!

To maintain our platform while developing new means to foster jazz discovery and connectivity, we need your help. You can become a sustaining member for as little as $20 and in return, we'll immediately hide those pesky ads plus provide access to future articles for a full year. This winning combination vastly improves your AAJ experience and allow us to vigorously build on the pioneering work we first started in 1995. So enjoy an ad-free AAJ experience and help us remain a positive beacon for jazz by making a donation today.

Near

More

Tramonto
John Taylor
Ki
Natsuki Tamura / Satoko Fujii
Duality Pt: 02
Dom Franks' Strayhorn
The Sound of Raspberry
Tatsuya Yoshida / Martín Escalante

Popular

Old Home/New Home
The Brian Martin Big Band
My Ideal
Sam Dillon
Ecliptic
Shifa شفاء - Rachel Musson, Pat Thomas, Mark Sanders
Lado B Brazilian Project 2
Catina DeLuna & Otmaro Ruíz

Get more of a good thing!

Our weekly newsletter highlights our top stories, our special offers, and upcoming jazz events near you.

Install All About Jazz

iOS Instructions:

To install this app, follow these steps:

All About Jazz would like to send you notifications

Notifications include timely alerts to content of interest, such as articles, reviews, new features, and more. These can be configured in Settings.