As 2011 is drawing to a close, we are looking back at a hectic year of touring for Kurt Rosenwinkel. 2011 started out @ the Village Vanguard – the most famous jazz club in the world – for what was a weeks worth of performances with Kurt’s “New Quartet” – a project devoted to (primarily [...]

Kurt Rosenwinkel is about to hit the road again. This time for a trip to Asia with his Standards Trio, featuring Eric Revis on bass and Justin Faulkner on drums. The dates are: Sept. 27-29: Cotton Club – Tokyo Oct. 1: Jarasum Jazz Festival, Korea Oct. 2: Hong Kong Jazz Festival Then after those dates [...]

Kurt Rosenwinkel landed in Melbourne, Australia late last night and is now trying to recover from jetlag before performing with Lee Konitz (hence Lee’s image in this post) for the first time in his career. This event will take place on June 9 at 7:30pm in the Melbourne Recital Hall as part of the Melbourne [...]

This video shows some moments from the “Standards Trio: Reflections” recording session – including how one of the master takes came to be. Hope you enjoy it – please leave your comments either way!

The greatly informative jazz website called AllAboutJazz has unleashed what is almost an embarrassment of riches when it comes to us Kurt Rosenwinkel fans. First here’s an interview conducted by Franz A. Matzner, and then managing editor John Kelman weighs in with his great review of “Kurt Rosenwinkel Standards Trio: Reflections”. Mark Corroto had of [...]