Kurt Rosenwinkel solo

a piece taken from Kurt Rosenwinkel's solo show @ the Falcon in Marlboro, NY on April 30, 2007.

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Music

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• Rosenwinkel
• jazz
• guitar

[kurtr2]

and to the person who thinks this is academic i just have to say you are wrong. this is really the opposite. if it can be called anything it would be shamanistic, or some other description of that nature. that is the internal state of mind, pure intuition. the theoretical level is all 2nd nature to me, it is just what i hear.

[kurtr2]

interesting discussion here. for what its worth- for me this is all melody and harmonic texture. but it is all driven by internal intuitive melodic resonant impulse. its improvised. i disagree that melody has to have repetition in it. there are through composed songs that never repeat, yet have a melody going through the whole thing. for me melody has everything to do with the impulse to sing. so for me, since i am singing everything here, it is all melody.

[whosOHW]

its really cool how it sound kind of like a piano having such low notes in there too. it really adds a whole other level!

[KurtVids]

This is just too amazing. This is how I would like modern, creative music to be like. Just close your eyes, and listen...

[evanmontgomerymusic]

5 people dislike awesomeness.

[jimmijune]

Hey Kurt , I love your playing and perspective and approach , more power to you . I would not worry but take as compliment some of those who are listening for " how ' you are doing something as apposed to what you are playing , ...and the sound coming from the speaker . It is fresh adventurous high integrity performance , I personally cant wait to hear much more . cheers !

[julianflores82]

@kurtr2 One thing dosn't oposse the other. Can be both, academic and shamanistic, a person can't be separated inside by any mean. It's what it is. And anything that came out have to do with every part of that person. Anything he play have and will have an academic background,. But he has masterd it to this level. He can conect to something bigger than the structure of any ttheoretical standard (i.e. jazz) with it as a floor but not a celing. In my opinion.

[beatrio]

Una mente superiore..I love him!

[seanjazzguitar]

@djcuvcuv112 Good thoughts, I would have to say that the action by which one translates their thoughts onto the instrument is what the artist is striving for and Kurt is one of those special guys who's playing seems to live in this realm perpetually. The music is purely intuitive and free flowing. I've been making it a habit to sing what I play and begin to feel the filter between my ear and my instrument disappear. "You know the goddamn scales already, just play"-Joe Diorio

[codyru]

There is not really an answer to that question. At least not one where you're going to feel satisfied. If you are a player just keep playing and playing and playing and working on new things. Expose yourself to all kinds of music. You won't sound like KR but you will begin to sound like you.

[djcuvcuv112]

i agree wholeheartedly with this and your other post, but when you say "the theoretical level is all 2nd nature to me," does that mean that you have learned and practiced the theoretical aspects to the point where it is so internalized that you can (internally) hear the colors, sounds, and concepts within the theoretical aspects and they just come out in your playing because of your deep familiarity with and understanding of them?

[lrishmarine]

2:57-3:02 Heard Giant Steps in there...