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Kurt Rosenwinkel
Kurt Rosenwinkel (born October 28, 1970) is an American
Kurt Rosenwinkel
jazz guitarist, composer, bandleader, producer, educator,
keyboardist and record label owner.

Biography
Born in Philadelphia to a musical family, Rosenwinkel began
taking piano lessons when he was nine years old. When he was
12, he began studying jazz guitar. Rosenwinkel attended the
Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts
alongside classmates including Christian McBride, Joey
DeFrancesco, and future Roots drummer Ahmir “Questlove”
Rosenwinkel performing in
Thompson. He studied at Berklee College of Music for two and
November 2018
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 Background information
Brooklyn, he began performing with Human Feel, Paul Birth name Kurt Peter
Motian's Electric Bebop Band,[1] Joe Henderson, and the Brian Rosenwinkel
Blade Fellowship. Born October 28, 1970
Philadelphia,
In 1995 he won the Composer's Award from the National Pennsylvania, U.S.
Endowment for the Arts and was signed by Verve. Since then,
Genres Jazz
he has played and recorded as a leader and sideman with Mark
Turner, Brad Mehldau, Joel Frahm, and Brian Blade. He Occupation(s) Musician
collaborated with Q-Tip, who co-produced his studio album Instrument(s) Guitar, piano
Heartcore that includes bassist Ben Street, drummer Jeff Years active 1990–present
Ballard, and saxophonist Mark Turner. He played guitar on
Labels Verve, ArtistShare,
Q-Tip's albums The Renaissance and Kamaal/The Abstract.
Wommusic,
Heartcore
In 2008 The Remedy was released, recorded with saxophonist
Mark Turner, pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Joe Martin, and Website kurtrosenwinkel
drummer Eric Harland. On November 10, 2009, he released a .com (http://kurtros
trio recording, Standards Trio: Reflections, with bassist Eric enwinkel.com)
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 Star of Jupiter was recorded with pianist Aaron Parks, bassist Eric
Revis, and drummer Justin Faulkner.[2] 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 produced his eleventh album, Caipi (2017), and was a

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producer and guitarist on Brazilian multi-instrumentalist

Pedro Martin's album Vox (2019).

Rosenwinkel's musical contributions have extended beyond

jazz. He has been a member of the Crossroads Guitar Festival
family since 2013, when he was invited by guitarist Eric
Clapton to share the stage. Clapton appeared on Rosenwinkel's
Caipi (2017), playing on the song “Little Dream”. Rosenwinkel
played in a hip hop setting with Q-Tip on The Renaissance
(2008) and Kamaal the Abstract (2009). He appeared on Late
Night with Jimmy Fallon with The Roots, and collaborated
with Domi and JD Beck.

Style
Rosenwinkel's influences include John Coltrane, Bud Powell,
David Bowie, Joe Henderson, Charlie Parker, Keith Jarrett, Pat
Rosenwinkel in April 2010
Metheny, Allan Holdsworth, Tal Farlow, George Van Eps, Bill
Frisell, John Scofield, and Alex Lifeson.[3]

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."[1]

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, a Yamaha SG, a Gibson SG, 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, Strymon
Riverside, Eventide H9, EHX Pog 2, Source Audio EQ, among others.[4] He has also used a Lavalier
lapel microphone fed into his guitar amplifier[5] that blends his vocalizing with his guitar.

Discography

As leader/co-leader
▪ East Coast Love Affair (Fresh Sound, 1996)

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▪ Intuit (Criss Cross, 1999)

▪ The Enemies of Energy (Verve, 2000)
▪ The Next Step (Verve, 2000)
▪ Heartcore (Verve, 2003)
▪ Deep Song (Verve, 2005)
▪ The Remedy (ArtistShare, 2008)
▪ Reflections (Wommusic, 2009)
▪ Seeing People with Roman Ott (Fresh Sound, 2009)
Rosenwinkel performs in Denmark in 2016
▪ Our Secret World with Orchestra de Jazz de
Matoshinhos (Wommusic, 2010) with Aarhus Jazz Orchestra, directed by
Geir Lysne
▪ Star of Jupiter (Wommusic, 2012)
▪ Caipi (Razdaz, 2017)
▪ Bandit 65: Searching the Continuum (Heartcore, 2019)
▪ Angels Around (Heartcore, 2020)
▪ Plays Piano (Heartcore, 2022)
▪ The Chopin Project with Jean-Paul Brodbeck (Heartcore, 2022)
▪ Berlin Baritone (Heartcore, 2022)
▪ Undercover: Live at the Village Vanguard (Heartcore, 2023)
▪ A Lovesome Thing (Motéma, 2023) with Geri Allen; recorded in 2012

As group
Human Feel With Chris Speed, Andrew D'Angelo, and Jim Black

▪ Scatter (GM, 1991)

▪ Welcome to Malpesta (New World, 1994)
▪ Speak to It (Songlines, 1996)
▪ Galore (Skirl, 2007)
▪ Gold (Intakt, 2019)

As sideman
With Brian Blade

▪ Perceptual (Blue Note, 2000)

▪ Season of Changes (Verve, 2008)
▪ Mama Rosa (Verve Forecast, 2009)
▪ Kings Highway (Stoner Hill, 2023)
With Seamus Blake

▪ The Call (Criss Cross, 1994)

▪ Stranger Things Have Happened (Fresh Sound, 1999)

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With Chris Cheek

▪ I Wish I Knew (Fresh Sound, 1997)

▪ Vine (Fresh Sound, 2000)
With Aaron Goldberg

▪ Worlds (Sunnyside, 2006)

▪ The Now (Sunnyside, 2014)
With Rebecca Martin

▪ Middlehope (Fresh Sound, 2001)

▪ The Growing Season (Sunnyside, 2008)
With Barney McAll

▪ Release the Day (Transparent Music, 2000)

▪ Mother of Dreams and Secrets (Research, 2018)
With Paul Motian

▪ 1992: Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band (JMT, 1993)
▪ 1994: Reincarnation of a Love Bird (JMT, 1994)
▪ 1996: Flight of the Blue Jay (Winter & Winter, 1997)
▪ 1998: Play Monk and Powell (Winter & Winter, 1999)
With Q-Tip

▪ 2001: Kamaal the Abstract (Jive, 2009)

▪ 2003–08: The Renaissance (Universal Motown, 2008)
With Mark Turner

▪ 1994: Yam Yam (Criss Cross, 1995)

▪ 1998: In This World (Warner Bros., 1998)
▪ 1999: Ballad Session (Warner Bros., 2000)
▪ 2001: Dharma Days (Warner Bros., 2001)
With others

▪ Gary Burton, Six Pack (GRP, 1992)

▪ Larry Goldings, Big Stuff (Warner Bros., 1996)
▪ Chris Potter, Vertigo (Concord Jazz, 1998)
▪ Jochen Rueckert, Introduction (Jazzline, 1998)
▪ Wax Poetic, Three (Doublemoon, 1998)
▪ George Colligan, Unresolved (Fresh Sound, 1999)
▪ Joe Claussell, Language (Ibadan, 1999)
▪ Marcy Playground, Shapeshifter (Capitol, 1999)

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▪ Tim Hagans, Animation Imagination (Blue Note, 1999)

▪ Toku, Everything She Said (SME, 2000)
▪ Danilo Perez, Motherland (Verve, 2002)
▪ Jakob Dinesen, Everything Will Be All Right (Stunt, 2002)
▪ Matthias Lupri, Same Time Twice (Summit, 2002)
▪ Eli Degibri, In the Beginning (Fresh Sound, 2003)
▪ Perico Sambeat, Friendship (ACT, 2003)
▪ Charlie Peacock, Love Press Ex-Curio (Runway, 2005)
▪ Joshua Redman, Momentum (Nonesuch, 2005)
▪ Daniel Szabo, Frictions (Pid, 2007)
▪ Jason Lindner, Gives You Now vs Now (Anzic, 2009)
▪ Joel Frahm, Live at Smalls (SmallsLIVE, 2011) – live
▪ Donald Fagen, Sunken Condos (Reprise, 2012)
▪ Jo-Yu Chen, Stranger (Okeh, 2014)
▪ Olivia Trummer, Fly Now (Contemplate Music, 2014)
▪ Alain Apaloo, Nunya (Gateway Music, 2015)
▪ Nitai Hershkovits, I Asked You a Question (Raw Tapes/Time Grove, 2016)
▪ Orrin Evans, #knowingishalfthebattle (Smoke Sessions, 2016)
▪ Riccardo Del Fra, Moving People (Parco Della Musica, 2018)
▪ Kyle Crane, Crane Like the Bird (Self-released, 2019)[6]
▪ Tobias Meinhart, Berlin People (Sunnyside, 2019)
▪ Nicola Andrioli, Skylight (Heartcore, 2022)
▪ Domi and JD Beck, NOT TiGHT (Blue Note, 2022)
▪ Louis Cole, Quality Over Opinion (Brainfeeder, 2022)
▪ Joe Farnswoth, In What Direction Are You Headed? (Smoke Sessions, 2023)
▪ Joshua Redman, Where Are We (Blue Note, 2023)
▪ Jim Snidero, Far Far Away (Savant Records Inc., 2023)

References
1. Berendt, Joachim-Ernst; Huesmann, Gunther (2009). The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to the
21st Century (7 ed.). Chicago, Illinois: Lawrence Hill Books. p. 432. ISBN 978-1-55652820-0.
2. Kelman, John (10 December 2012). "Kurt Rosenwinkel: Star of Jupiter" (http://www.allaboutjaz
z.com/php/article.php?id=43478). Allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
3. Panken, Ted. "IN CONVERSATION WITH KURT ROSENWINKEL" (https://web.archive.org/we
b/20130927143732/http://www.jazz.com/features-and-interviews/2008/10/17/in-conversation-wi
th-kurt-rosenwinkel). Jazz.com. Archived from the original (http://www.jazz.com/features-and-in
terviews/2008/10/17/in-conversation-with-kurt-rosenwinkel) on 27 September 2013. Retrieved
31 July 2013.
4. Milkowski, Bill. "Kurt Rosenwinkel" (http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/Kurt-Rosenwinkel/67).
Guitarplayer.com. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
5. "Kurt Rosenwinkel: Emerging Brilliance" (http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=2182

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8&pg=2). Allaboutjazz.com. 16 May 2006. Retrieved 21 November 2018.

6. Newcomb, Brian Q. (February 11, 2019). "Crane Like the Bird: Crane Like the Bird" (https://the
firenote.com/2019/02/11/crane-like-the-bird-crane-like-the-bird-album-review/). thefirenote.com.

External links
▪ Official site (http://www.kurtrosenwinkel.com/)
▪ Heartcore Records (https://heartcore-records.com/)
▪ State of Mind - Conversation with Kurt Rosenwinkel - 2008 (http://www.stateofmindmusic.com
/?entry=319)
▪ Kurt Rosenwinkel articles on NPR Music (https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId
=89272916)
▪ Jazzfuel - Interview with Kurt Rosenwinkel - 2017 (https://jazzfuel.com/interview-kurt-rosenwink
el/)

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