Next Step

Kurt Rosenwinkel - Next Step

Next Step
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Artist: Kurt Rosenwinkel
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-01-09
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Zhivago
  2. Minor Blues
  3. A Shifting Design
  4. Path Of The Heart
  5. Filters
  6. Use Of Light
  7. The Next Step
  8. A Life Unfolds

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Music Review: The new century rocks
Rating: 5 Stars

One simple soul like me should be granted the right to give an album six stars. For people have the tendency to give five stars for mediocrity and that leaves me embarrassed.
Rosenwinkels "The Next Step" is among the greatest of the great. His star should be shinning bright and so it does. Now all we have to do is take notice!
The great albums come from different buildingmaterials. The most important is a leader with the knowledge of his or hers superior technique on his or hers instrument. This knowledge most come into the world in the shape of shyfull confidence. This leader most know that he or she is playing with a group and that leading is giving room to the groupmembers. Rosenwinkel knows how to be part of a group. Mark Turner on tenor sax, Ben Street on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums now how to be thankfull. They all play extremely good and make beauty take form. Never a dull moment.
An other part of the buildingmaterials is the craftsmanship in writing and experimentation. Without this quality an album can't be great. Rosenwinkel obviously has these qualities. All eight pieces are beautiful and well thought-out. The music makes you the listener. I am compelled by Rosenwinkels group to listen and find out what they are doing. Out standing!!!

FJB/O!-music 2006
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Description of Next Step

Japanese version featuring a bonus track
This rising jazz guitar star writes unlikely music. Equally mysterious, eerie, contemplative, serene, buoyant, and forlorn, Kurt Rosenwinkel's music follows no discernible fashion. Though he's influenced by Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell, Rosenwinkel's second Verve release (the follow-up to 2000's Enemies of Energy) more aptly recalls the early ECM recordings of guitarist John Abercrombie and drummer Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition band. Steeped in unusual tunings, zigzagging melodies, and a highly sensitive and loosely supercharged band, The Next Step works, especially for those patient enough to dig through its dense fabric. An equal number of post-bop workouts and haunting ballads occupy the CD, but even when the musicians (saxophonist Mark Turner, drummer Jeff Ballard, bassist Ben Street) are in full wail, a sense of fragile contemplation marks the music.

The intricate "Zhivago" and "A Shifting Design" show Rosenwinkel's unique guitar and compositional personality--his fingers and his mind seem as one, almost as if he doesn't really need a band to consummate his music. And when he sings (wordlessly) along with his probing guitar designs, he rides high over the band while seeming deep in his own head. The ballads--"Paths of the Heart," "Use of Light," and the beginning of "A Shifting Design"--perfectly capture some sci-fi deep space silence, where abandoned crafts drift in the darkness of a black vacuum. But Rosenwinkel also bumps and boogies like mad on "Filters," dedicated to Wes Montgomery, which features dynamite Turner-Rosenwinkel interplay and a gripping, hot-as-coals melody. For the title track, Rosenwinkel is on piano, and he sounds for all the world like a Chick Corea composition before it blasts off into a hardy, free-blues shuffle. Quixotic, cerebral, and a bit magical, The Next Step plots the unusual path of this freethinking guitarist. --Ken Micallef

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