Freshlyground formed in early 2002, and is made up of seven talented and diverse musicians from South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Fronted by the diminutive but dynamic Zolani Mahola, the band exudes a live performance energy that has been the bedrock of their success. The experienced rhythm […]
“What my music is about in general — and this album is no different — has to do with the relationship that we each have with the universe at large and how we use our intuition to hear what it is telling us.” It came to him in a dream. What guitarist and composer Kurt Rosenwinkel describes […]
Kurt Rosenwinkel has always given us music that has conveyed a sense of masterful story- telling & breathtaking imaginative reach. His significance to the ever-evolving jazz tradition in fact transcends the oft-cited lineage of jazz guitar in much the same way that Thelonious Monk and Wayne Shorter […]
“Kurt Rosenwinkel is rightfully most celebrated for being a 21-century innovator of new music,” begins the liner notes by Ethan Iverson for Rosenwinkel’s latest album (his eighth as leader) titled, Standards Trio: Reflections. […]
What is “the remedy”? Ask a simple question and you may get a simple answer. “Music is the remedy,” replies Kurt Rosenwinkel. It’s hard to imagine a more suitable title, then, for the guitarist’s brilliant new album, The Remedy: Live at the Village Vanguard […]
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