Kurt Rosenwinkel
Kurt Rosenwinkel is an American jazz guitarist.
Biography
A native of Philadelphia, Rosenwinkel attended the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. He studied at Berklee College of Music for two and a half years before leaving in his third year to tour with Gary Burton, the dean of the school at the time. After moving to Brooklyn, he began performing with Human Feel, Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band, Joe Henderson, and the Brian Blade Fellowship.In 1995 he won the Composer's Award from the National Endowment for the Arts and was signed by Verve. Since then, he has played and recorded as a leader and sideman with Mark Turner, Brad Mehldau, Joel Frahm, and Brian Blade. He collaborated with Q-Tip, who co-produced his studio album Heartcore that includes bassist Ben Street, drummer Jeff Ballard, and saxophonist Mark Turner. He played guitar on Q-Tip's albums The Renaissance and Kamaal/The Abstract.
In 2008 The Remedy was released, recorded with saxophonist Mark Turner, pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Joe Martin, and drummer Eric Harland. 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 Stars of Jupiter 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 John Coltrane, Bud Powell, David Bowie, Joe Henderson, Charlie Parker, Keith Jarrett, Biggie Smalls, Pat Metheny, Allan Holdsworth, Tal Farlow, George Van Eps, Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Alex Lifeson, 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 Gibson ES-335, guitars made by Italian luthier 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, Pro Co RAT distortion, TC Electronic Nova Reverb, Lehle D. Loop Effect-loop/Switcher, Malekko Echo 600 Dark, Old World Audio 1960 Compressor, Electro-Harmonix 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 Boss Corporation OC-3 octave, among others. He has also used a Lavalier lapel microphone fed into his guitar amplifier that blends his vocalizing with his guitar.
Discography
As leader
- 1996 – East Coast Love Affair
- 1998 – Intuit
- 2000 – The Enemies of Energy
- 2001 – The Next Step
- 2003 – Heartcore
- 2005 – Deep Song
- 2008 – The Remedy: Live at the Village Vanguard
- 2009 – Reflections
- 2010 – Our Secret World
- 2012 – Star of Jupiter
- 2017 – Caipi
- 2020 – Angels Around
As collaborator
- 1991 – Human Feel – Scatter
- 1994 – Human Feel – Welcome to Malpesta
- 1996 – Human Feel – Speak to It
- 2000 – Metta Quintet – Going to Meet the Man
- 2007 – Human Feel – Galore
- 2019 – Kurt Rosenwinkel and Scott Kinsey – Do It 1992
- 2014 – Bandit 65 – Bandit 65
- 2018 – Bandit 65 – Live at Nefertiti
- 2019 – Bandit 65 - Searching the Continuum
- 2019 – Pedro Martins - VOX Producer, Sideman
As sideman
- 1990 – Mimmo Cafiero Quintet – Moon and Twenty Five
- 1991 – Skylee Jeffrey in the Meow Zone – Meow Now and Meow Before
- 1992 – Gary Burton – Six Pack
- 1993 – Seamus Blake – The Call
- 1994 – Mark Turner – Yam Yam
- 1994 – Paul Motian – Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band
- 1995 – Once Blue – Once Blue
- 1995 – Perico Sambeat – Ademuz
- 1996 – Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band – Reincarnation of a Love Bird
- 1996 – Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band – Flight of the Blue Jay
- 1996 – Larry Goldings – Big Stuff
- 1997 – Chris Cheek Quartet – I Wish I Knew
- 1998 – The Chris Potter Quartet – Vertigo
- 1998 – Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band – Play Monk and Powell
- 1998 – Mark Turner – In This World
- 1998 – Jochen Rueckert – Introduction
- 1999 – Myron Walden – Like a Flower Seeking the Sun
- 1999 – Seamus Blake – Stranger Things Have Happened
- 1999 – George Colligan – Unresolved
- 1999 – Jakob Dinesen Quartet – Around
- 1999 – Chris Cheek – Vine
- 1999 – Mark Turner – Ballad Session
- 1999 – Marcy Playground – Shapeshifter
- 1999 – Tim Hagans – Animation – Imagination
- 1999 – Jill Seifers – The Waiting
- 1999 – Brian Blade Fellowship – Perceptual
- 1999 – Joe Claussell – Language
- 1999 – The Miles Donahue Quintet – In the Pocket
- 2000 – Noah Becker – Where We Are
- 2000 – Wax Poetic – Wax Poetic
- 2000 – Danilo Pérez – Motherland
- 2000 – TOKU – Everything She Said
- 2001 – Rebecca Martin – Middlehope
- 2001 – Matt Penman – The UnQuiet
- 2001 – Barney McAll – Release the Day
- 2001 – Mark Turner – Dharma Days
- 2002 – Jorg Kaaij Quintet – Downtown Daze
- 2002 – Kris Bauman Quartet feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel
- 2002 – Matthias Lupri Group – Same Time Twice
- 2002 – Jakob Dinesen – Everything Will Be Alright
- 2003 – Eli Degibri Quintet – In the Beginning
- 2003 – Perico Sambeat – Friendship
- 2004 – Various – Your Guide to the North Sea Jazz Festival 2004
- 2004 – Jonathan Townes – Zomo : Colect'd Works 1990–2004
- 2004 – Phil Grenadier – Playful Intentions
- 2005 – Charlie Peacock – Love Press Ex–Curio
- 2005 – Joshua Redman Elastic Band – Momentum
- 2006 – Barney McAll – Mother of Dreams and Secrets
- 2006 – Tom Cohen – The Guitar Trio Project
- 2006 – Aaron Goldberg – Worlds
- 2006 – Joel Miller – Mandala
- 2007 – Charlier / Sourisse – Heritage
- 2007 – Daniel Szabo Trio – Frictions
- 2007 – Rebecca Martin – The Growing Season
- 2008 – Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band – Season of Changes
- 2008 – Jakob Bro – The Stars are All New Songs Vol. 1
- 2008 – Q-Tip – The Renaissance
- 2009 – Barney McAll – Flashbacks
- 2009 – Brian Blade – Mama Rosa
- 2009 – Roman Ott – Seeing People
- 2009 – Jason Lindner – Now vs. Now
- 2009 – Q–Tip – Kamaal/The Abstract
- 2009 – Alain Apaloo's Api Pipo – Flood Gate
- 2011 – Various – Disney Jazz Volume 1 Everybody Wants to Be a Cat
- 2012 – Julian Shore – Filaments
- 2012 – Donald Fagen – Sunken Condos
- 2012 – Carolina Brandes' O.M.P. Flowers of the deeper soil
- 2012 – Iris Ornig – No Restrictions
- 2013 – Umberto Echo – Elevator Dubs
- 2013 – Eric Clapton – Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013
- 2014 – Aaron Goldberg – The Now
- 2014 – Roman Ott – If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now
- 2014 – Kyra Garey – Desert Road
- 2014 – Jo–Yu Chen – Stranger
- 2014 - Olivia Trummer - Fly Now
- 2019 – Kyle Crane – Crane Like the Bird
- 2019 – Tobias Meinhart - Berlin People