Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio, Inner Urge

[samdunnguitar]

Thanks for posting! Love it!

[juangsierrag]

what a drummer, who´s this guy????

[innhat11]

no hat ?! wow

[matsdrums]

amazing! obed is such a great great musician!

[mohomoho1]

Guitar wankers. Self indulgent. It's all been done before. Give me Sonny Sharrock anyday of the week or Peter Brotzmann. I here nothing here that sends goosebumps up and down my spine

[Jazzguitar00]

@mohomoho1 Whoops, likes like you missed out on the fact that this is an up-tempo, busy tune to begin with. You can find videos of him doing ballads and nice solo guitar stuff. this is a swinging ass Joe Henderson tune- this is perfectly in tune with it.

[lorenzini]

@mohomoho1 Bye! Have fun!

[PaulTraps]

I am unfamiliar with Calvaire. He reminds me of Hamid Drake. Beautiful!

[Podestacide]

Someone at my school told me if you don't swing your eighth notes, you get haunted by the ghosts of Charles Mingus and Miles Davis. They show up Round Midnight.

Can't say for sure. I've never taken that chance.

[mikisjazz]

This is the REAL Inner Urge!! This is what Jazz is all about. Kurt is at the most creative edge of Jazz  where music is what counts most. He's incredible!! Sure wished he played here (in the US) more.

[jazztom86]

@mikisjazz you see, and I'm grateful that he plays the more here (europe) :D

[4578a]

Goddamn he's shaking things up a bit. We need that!

[redhairedstepchild]

great jazz music :) amazing musicians !!  rhsc nyc

[fellinilynch]

guau

[tubeiroe]

damn, Ben Street is ripping it up

[shrd11]

burnin' fast!

[aFightingChristian]

what a hell is his guitar?gibson?

[benevolentcats]

its a Sadowsky Semi Hollow, I have one :-)

[trauma15]

i ordered one should be coming soon...ive only heard amazing things about the guitar

so excited lol

[NJlo]

Tell us how it is!

[eyebonez13]

this bitch swings like a mofo, you'd have to be tripping to say otherwise.

[matthewhenson1]

hahaha well put

[franzjoseph88]

Ben Street can dig.

[steveey251]

What is all this jazz discussion about tradition and "swinging" and bullshit. You think kurt's thinking about any of those rules? Fuck that shit! He's going for and making amazing music.

[SonofHelge]

the tradition is the basis

[rubberbandsax]

Exactly right!

The tradition IS the basis. Bet your last dollar that Rosenwinkel knows his Tal Farlow, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, Bird, Lennie Tristano, John Coltrane, Joe Pass, Bill Evans...

These guys are sponges and you can progress intelligently once the tradition is ingrained into your bones.

Find me a guy who made up slang without knowing the plain language first :D :D The reason why we dig Kurt is because he's coming from somewhere!

And leading us to so many places to go.

[kabustard]

@steveey251 Well said.

[SPNev]

This is swinging. Eight note lines will flatten out at a faster tempo.

Jengelbach, Irving Mills was a dodgy agent, not a jazz musician. When Ellington and his contemparies were composing and performing their music, they were expanding on what we now know as 'traditional jazz'. There was no pre-existing tradition. Jazz is a creative art form and always will be. Fun times!

[jengelbach]

Irving Mills was not a "dodgy agent," but a supremely creative man who, among his other accomplishments, wrote or collaborated on lyrics for quite a few great songs. Ellington and many other musicians liked him and valued his contributions both to the jazz canon and to the business of producing and recording jazz. He was also a pioneer at recording black and white musicians together.

[musicadelmundo]

limado del orto! buenisimo

[azharkamal]

a nice way of playing jazz that sounds unique and not rehashed. very very good kurt my friend!

[ejmcclel]

this is some of kurt's sickest playing!

save the hate for your own self esteem and practice harder!

cheers!

[jengelbach]

Great playing obscured by ugly sound. It doesn't swing. Comes across as a lumbering elephant. Rosenwinkel is better than this.

[Nu9v9]

it doesnt swing?! open ur ears dude. we were dancing crazy when we actually read ur comment, this is a kick ass -swing to hell- way to groove. once you got to know the tempo and feel u cant stop dancing... try it1

[jengelbach]

The audio quality is terrible. You can't hear the groove. I doubt if any of the musicians — especially the bass player — is happy with the sound.

[bluesguy33]

Jazz doesn't have to swing anymore. This is awesome.

[bluesguy33]

Agree to disagree then. They may have set the tradition for jazz but that doesn't mean you can't expand on it. Check out kurts standards albums. He still kills but the drums are much more restrained. Calvaire is more all over the place than normal.

[jengelbach]

The point about this clip is not whether they're playing well, but the sound quality, which sucks and makes it all but impossible to hear the groove.

[bluesguy33]

That's because its a video taken from a camera or something else not meant to take high quality footage or sound.

[jengelbach]

I'm aware of the reason for the poor sound, which is unfortunately the same on many live YouTube clips.

[guitardrew05]

these guys are playing and innovating with the exact spirit of ellington, monk, miles, and all the so called traditionalists of jazz if that term holds any meaning at all ( roy eldridge, count basie, louis armstrong = traditionalists? not to me), this is where jazz is at this point and as long as people try outrageous stuff with the talent and dedication to pull it off it wont ever die. as soon as everyone shapes up and does one thing, jazz will be very dead

[allegedartistlessons]

If you get a chance, check out Kurt's record's East Coast Love Affair and Intuit. He plays standards and swings quite nicely in a very traditional style. His playing here definitely has a more "straight 8th" feel but it's certainly intentional on his part.

[jengelbach]

Thanks. Rosenwinkel is an undoubted master of his instrument and I respect and enjoy much of his music. This clip's main problem is bad audio. Online worshippers apparently don't differentiate between good sound and bad. I also don't care much for undifferentiated drumming: this tune deserves, and has had, better.

[jalofnotrade]

hah

[AllthatIamisLove]

dang!.

[jrob521]

does anybody know what kind of distortion or overdrive he uses?

thanks

[denjz]

proco Rat

[jazzcombo251]

intense shit! check out Kurt playing live on NPR radio at the Vanguard tomorrow night. you can downlaod it too, which is really sick.

[jalofnotrade]

what..the..fuck

this is insane!

[jjjjaaaaccccoooobbbb]

who's the drummer?

[denjz]

Looks like Obed Calvaire

[Sandemose]

A monster

[wholelottaled231]

he is amazing. he actually did a master class at my school today. he is not only extremely talented but very nice.

[atavismnocturn]

Why did you take this down?

[raikonomicron]

YEAH THIS GUY IS ON FIREEEE!!!

[atavismnocturn]

listen to that tone.

[Sandemose]

Yeah, how do you define it? Modern and complex, at the same time ancient and mysterius? Warm and evil at the same time? :)

Best, Sandemose

[Saxyman14]

You don't define it. Why does everything need a definition? why can't some things just be?

[Sandemose]

Because people like to define (as close as is gets, or just like to try to define) because its intresting. By talking and discusing art, things wont change. Things still "are" even if one discuses it. Best regards, Sandemose

[Saxyman14]

Fine, then I would define it as "His."

[Sandemose]

I couldnt have put it better my self :)

Best regards, Sandemose

[futboler454]

You have to give things names in order to communicate an idea.

[Sandemose]

Very true! Best,

Sandemose

[Saxyman14]

Not necessarily true. Kurt isn't playing words. He's communicating something that cant be given a name.

[mdudekm]

Sandemose said: "Modern and complex, at the same time ancient and mysterius? Warm and evil at the same time?"

You nailed it!

[fraubaixo]

This is tribute for this nice musicians, this moment is the concert was very good. Enjoy with this music!

[Sandemose]

Man, youtube explodes with Kurt clips right now! Thanks alot! Best regards, Sandemose