Kurt Rosenwinkel (born October 28, 1970) is an American

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guitarist, keyboardist, composer, bandleader, producer, educator and record label owner.

Biography

A native of Philadelphia, Rosenwinkel attended the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. He studied at

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for two and a half years before leaving in his third year to tour with

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, the dean of the school at the time. After moving to Brooklyn, he began performing with Human Feel,

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's Electric Bebop Band,

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, and the Brian Blade Fellowship. In 1995 he won the Composer's Award from the

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and was signed by Verve. Since then, he has played and recorded as a leader and sideman with Mark Turner,

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, Joel Frahm, and Brian Blade. He collaborated with Q-Tip, who co-produced his studio album '' Heartcore'' that includes bassist

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, drummer Jeff Ballard, and saxophonist Mark Turner. He played guitar on Q-Tip's albums ''

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''and '' Kamaal/The Abstract''. Kurt Rosenwinkel peforming in April 2010

In 2008 ''

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'' was released, recorded with saxophonist Mark Turner, pianist

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, bassist Joe Martin, and drummer

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. On November 10, 2009, he released a trio recording, '' Standards Trio: Reflections'', with bassist Eric Revis and drummer Eric Harland. On September 7, 2010, he released '' Kurt Rosenwinkel & OJM: Our Secret World'' and with OJM an 18-piece big band from Porto, Portugal. His album ''

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'' was recorded with pianist Aaron Parks, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Justin Faulkner. He is on the faculty at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler. In 2016, Rosenwinkel formed the independent music label Heartcore Records and began producing as well as performing. He self-produced his eleventh album, 2017's ''Caipi'', and was involved as a producer and guitarist on Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Pedro Martin’s 2019 release ''Vox''.

Style

Rosenwinkel's influences include

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, Keith Jarrett,

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, Tal Farlow, George Van Eps,

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, and Skylee Jeffrey. ''The Jazz Book'' calls Rosenwinkel "a visionary composer, with an infinitely sensitive way of layering electronic sounds, borrowed from ambient music, dub, and drum and bass, and manipulating them intelligently."

Equipment

Rosenwinkel has played a D'Angelico New Yorker, a Sadowsky semi-hollow body, a

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, guitars made by Italian

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Domenico Moffa, and a signature model made by Westville Guitars. Rosenwinkel has used a variety of effects, including: Neunaber WET Stereo Reverb, Strymon Timeline, Strymon Mobius, Strymon Blue Sky Reverb, Strymon El Capistan dTape Echo, Digitech Vocalist, Thegigrig HumDinger, Rockett Allan Holdsworth, Empress ParaEQ,

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distortion, TC Electronic Nova Reverb, Lehle D. Loop Effect-loop/Switcher, Malekko Echo 600 Dark, Old World Audio 1960 Compressor,

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HOG Polyphonic Guitar Synthesizer, Eventide TimeFactor Delay, Xotic X-Blender Effects Loops, Empress Tremolo, Lehle Parallel line mixer, TC Electronic SCF stereo chorus flanger, and

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OC-3 octave, Strymon Riverside, Eventide H9, EHX Pog 2, Source Audio EQ, among others. He has also used a Lavalier lapel microphone fed into his

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that blends his vocalizing with his guitar.

Discography

As leader/co-leader

* 1992: ''Do It 1992'' with

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(Heartcore, 2019) imited edition* 1996: ''

East Coast Love Affair ''East Coast Love Affair'' is the debut solo album by the jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel. Track listing Personnel *Kurt Rosenwinkel – Guitar * Avishai Cohen – Bass *Jorge Rossy – Drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, ...

'' (Fresh Sound, 1996) – live * 1996: ''

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'' ( Verve, 2000) * 1998: ''

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'' ( Criss Cross, 1999) * 2000: '' The Next Step'' (Verve, 2001) * 2001–03: '' Heartcore'' (Verve, 2003) * 2005?: '' Deep Song'' (Verve, 2005) * 2006: ''

'' (ArtistShare, 2008) CD– live * 2009: '' Reflections'' (Wommusic, 2009) * 2009: ''

Our Secret World ''Our Secret World'' is Kurt Rosenwinkel's ninth album as a band leader. It is a collaboration with the Orchestra de Jazz Matosinhos from Portugal. The project was begun in 2007 and was performed in 2008. Recording took place over three days in S ...

'' (Wommusic, 2010) * 2012: ''

'' (Wommusic, 2012) CD* 2007–17: ''Caipi'' (Razdaz, 2017) * 2017–18: ''Bandit 65: Searching the Continuum'' (Heartcore, 2019) – live * 2020?: ''Angels Around'' (Heartcore, 2020) * 2020: ''Plays Piano'' (Heartcore, 2021) * 2021?: ''Heartcore'' (Heartcore, 2021) LP* 2021–22: ''The Chopin Project'' with Jean-Paul Brodbeck (Heartcore, 2022)

As group

Human Feel
With Chris Speed, Andrew D'Angelo and Jim Black * 1991: ''Scatter'' (GM, 1991) * 1994: ''Welcome to Malpesta'' (New World, 1994) * 1996?: ''Speak to It'' (Songlines, 1996) * 2006: ''Galore'' (Skirl, 2007) * 2017: ''Gold'' (Intakt, 2019)

Collaborations

With Roman Ott Inner Shape * ''Seeing People'' (

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, 2009) – recorded in 2008 With Orchestra de Jazz de Matoshinhos (OJM) * ''Our Secret World'' (Wommusic, 2010) – recorded in 2009

As sideman

With Brian Blade * ''

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'' (

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, 2000) – recorded in 1999 * ''

Season of Changes ''Season of Changes'' is a studio album by Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band. Reception Writing for ''All About Jazz'', John Kelman said: The twin-horn frontline of Myron Walden (alto saxophone, bass clarinet) and Melvin Butler (tenor saxophone ...

'' ( Verve, 2008) * ''Mama Rosa'' (Verve Forecast, 2009) With

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* ''The Call'' (Criss Cross, 1994) – recorded in 1993 * ''Stranger Things Have Happened'' (Fresh Sound, 1999) With Chris Cheek * ''I Wish I Knew'' (Fresh Sound, 1997) * ''Vine'' (Fresh Sound, 2000) With

* ''Worlds'' (Sunnyside, 2006) * ''The Now'' (Sunnyside, 2014) With Rebecca Martin * ''Middlehope'' (Fresh Sound, 2001) * ''The Growing Season'' (Sunnyside, 2008) With

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* ''Release the Day'' (Transparent Music, 2000) * ''Mother of Dreams and Secrets'' (Research, 2018) With

* 1992: ''

Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band ''Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band'' is an album of bebop jazz standards by American drummer Paul Motian originally released on the German JMT label. It was the first release by the Electric Bebop Band, which featured the veteran drumme ...

'' (JMT, 1993) * 1994: ''

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'' (JMT, 1994) * 1996: ''

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'' (Jive, 2009) * 2003–08: ''

'' (Universal Motown, 2008) With Mark Turner * 1994: '' Yam Yam'' (Criss Cross, 1995) * 1998: ''

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'' (Warner Bros., 1998) * 1999: ''Ballad Session'' (Warner Bros., 2000) * 2001: ''

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'' (Warner Bros., 2001) With others * Nicola Andrioli, ''Skylight'' (Heartcore, 2022) * Alain Apaloo, ''Nunya'' (Gateway Music, 2015) *

, '' Six Pack'' (GRP, 1992) *

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, ''Stranger'' (Okeh, 2014) * Joe Claussell, ''Language'' (Ibadan, 1999) *

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, ''

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'' (Brainfeeder, 2022) * George Colligan, ''Unresolved'' (Fresh Sound, 1999) *

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, ''

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'' (Self-released, 2019) * Eli Degibri, ''In the Beginning'' (Fresh Sound, 2003) * Riccardo Del Fra, ''Moving People'' (Parco Della Musica 2018) * Domi and JD Beck, ''NOT TiGHT'' (Blue Note, 2022) *

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, ''#knowingishalfthebattle'' (Smoke Sessions, 2016) *

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, ''

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'' (Reprise, 2012) * Joel Frahm, ''Live at Smalls'' (SmallsLIVE, 2011) – live * Larry Goldings, ''Big Stuff'' (Warner Bros., 1996) *

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, ''Animation Imagination'' (Blue Note, 1999) *

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, ''I Asked You a Question'' (Raw Tapes/Time Grove, 2016) *

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, ''Gives You Now vs Now'' (Anzic, 2009) * Matthias Lupri, ''Same Time Twice'' (

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, 2002) *

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, ''Berlin People'' (Sunnyside, 2019) *

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, ''Shapeshifter'' (Capitol, 1999) *

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, ''Love Press Ex-Curio'' (Runway, 2005) * Danilo Perez, ''Motherland'' (Verve, 2002) * Chris Potter, ''

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'' (Concord Jazz, 1998) *

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, ''

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'' (Nonesuch, 2005) * Jochen Rueckert, ''Introduction'' (Jazzline, 1998) *

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, ''

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'' (ACT, 2003) * Daniel Szabo, ''Frictions'' (Pid, 2007) * Toku, ''Everything She Said'' (SME, 2000) * Olivia Trummer, ''Fly Now'' (Contemplate Music, 2014) * Wax Poetic, ''Three'' (Doublemoon, 1998)

References

External links

Official site

State of Mind - Conversation with Kurt Rosenwinkel - 2008

Kurt Rosenwinkel articles on NPR Music

Jazzfuel - Interview with Kurt Rosenwinkel - 2017
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