Kurt Rosenwinkel records in a variety of situations, either from inclination or to keep himself and his audience fresh or both. In 2022 alone, he released three unusually diverse albums: Plays Piano, a solo outing on which he plays piano only; The Chopin Project, a co-led disc with pianist Jean-Paul Brodbeck exploring the work of Frederic Chopin; and Berlin Baritone, another solo album, this time playing a baritone guitar.
Undercover: Live At The Village Vanguard is back in more conventional jazz territory. Rosenwinkle leads a quartet completed by pianist and keyboardist Aaron Parks, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Gregory Hutchinson on a programme of originals.
With a pleasingly liquid sound and sure melodic touch, Rosenwinkel's connections with jazz heritage are strong. Two foundational influences suggest themselves. One is Pat Metheny, sixteen years Rosenwinkle's senior, primarily for Metheny's embrace of effects technology. Rosenwinkel, too, employs a multiplicity of gadgets, and like Metheny does so with originality and taste. The second figure is pianist Bill Evans, with whom Rosenwinkel shares a talent for harmonic invention, his approach including, but not being limited to, some of Evans' particular fingerprints.
Undercover kicks off with two exhilarating, medium-up-tempo tunes, "Cycle Five" and "The Past Intact." So thoroughly manipulated is Rosenwinkel's guitar tone that one could be excused for thinking it is a guitar synth (Rosenwinkel has been known to play a guitar synth, but the sleeve credits here simply list him as playing "guitar"). Combined with Parks' use of what sounds like a Wurlitzer organ (again, the sleeve credits do not go into details) on "Cycle Five," the overall effect at times puts one in mind of the Pat Metheny Group's chugger "Are You Going With Me?" Another muscular piece is "Our Secret World," with a rougher edge than the PMG favoured.
There are two ballads, "Solé" (check the YouTube below) and "Music," with the former's topline and guitar harmonies evoking Bill Evans. Interestingly, there is less of an Evans connection on Rosenwinkel's performance of the tune on the limited edition 2022 album Piano Solo on the audiophile-vinyl label LP345. And while we are thinking Evans, the use of triple-time on "Music" rings the bell again. On the closing title track, Rosenwinkel and Parks uncharacteristically go borderline chromatic.
Postscript: In case you missed it, earlier in 2023 Elemental Records released an audiophile-vinyl edition of Rosenwinkel's second album as leader, the 2-LP Intuit (originally released as a Criss Cross CD in 1998). All but one of the ten tracks are covers and include Irving Berlin's "How Deep Is The Ocean?," Jimmy Van Heusen's "Darn That Dream," George Gershwin's "Summertime" and two versions of George Shearing's "Conception." There are also three up-tempo pieces by Charlie Parker: "Dewey Square," "Sippin' At Bells" and "Segment."
By Chris May
July 18, 2023
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/undercover-live-at-the-village-vanguard-kurt-rosenwinkel-heartcore-records
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El guitarrista norteamericano Kurt Rosenwinkel es uno de los músicos más destacados de su generación, esa nacida en la década de los años setenta del siglo pasado.
Rosenwinkel se ha ganado a pulso la situación de la que goza hoy en día; tanto por sus propios proyectos, sólo en el año 2022 editó tres discos, ‘Plays piano’, una salida en solitario en la que solo toca el piano; ‘The Chopin Project’, un disco codirigido con el pianista Jean-Paul Brodbeck en el que explora la obra del compositor polaco Frédéric Chopin; y ‘Berlin Baritone’, otro álbum en solitario pero esta vez tocando una guitarra barítono; como sus múltiples colaboraciones con los más diversos artistas.
‘Undercover (Live at the Village Vanguard)’ es su nuevo disco, y en él se recoge una selección de siete piezas interpretadas durante tres noches del mes de octubre de 2022 durante las actuaciones que realizó en el histórico Village Vanguard de Nueva York.
Todos los temas que suenan en el disco son composiciones del propio guitarrista y en ellas se aprecian las dos grandes influencias de este músico. Por un lado, la de Pat Metheny, dieciséis años mayor que Rosenwinkel, en lo referente al uso que hace de la tecnología de efectos. Al respecto baste con citar unos pocos de sus múltiples aparatos: Neunaber WET 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.
Por otro, el pianista Bill Evans, con quien Rosenwinkel comparte el talento para la invención armónica.
En esta aventura el guitarrista residente en Berlín (Alemania) está acompañado por el joven y talentoso pianista Aaron Parks, el veterano y sólido bajista Eric Revis y por el baterista Greg Hutchinson, con el que lleva colaborando mucho tiempo.
Con todo ellos y su atrayentes composiciones del ‘Undercover (Live at the Village Vanguard)’ de Kurt Rosenwinkel sólo se puede decir que es un disco que merece mucho la pena disfrutar.
Y ya.
http://www.distritojazz.com/discos-jazz/kurt-rosenwinkel-undercover-live-at-the-village-vanguard
CYCLE FIVE 8:16
THE PAST INTACT 7:03
SOLÉ 7:58
OUR SECRET WORLD 7:19
MUSIC 9:37
UNDERCOVER 12:56
Credits:
Kurt Rosenwinkel – guitar
Aaron Parks – piano, keys
Eric Revis – bass
Greg Hutchinson – drums
All compositions by Kurt Rosenwinkel
Recorded live at the Village Vanguard
2023
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