Kurt Rosenwinkel and OJM
Iridium, New York City
2010-09-08
Early and Late Sets

Source and Lineage- Audience capture on Roland Edirol R-09> Audacity> Easy CD-DA Extractor> TLH> Dime
Sound: A, with minor jazz club audience noise
Performance: A+

Early Show-

1. Our Secret World 08:27
2. The Cloister 11:31
3. Zhivago 15:10
4. Dream of the Old 12:39
5. Turns 08:49

Late Show-

1. Skylark 08:18
2. I Need to Know 10:33
3. Deja Vu 8:33
4. Path of the Heart 18:16
5. Turns 10:17

Kurt Rosenwinkel-guitar, composer (all except Skylark, by Hoagy Carmichael, I think)
OJM, the Orchestra de Jazz de Matoshinos is from Portugal. If you're not familiar with this project, please check out Kurt's officially released cd with OJM called Our Secret World, which came out in 2010.
OJM is basically a Big Band with a Woodwind section of 6-7 players, and a Brass section of 3-4 Trombones and 4-5 Trumpets and Flugelhorns. They're rounded out by Carlos Azevedo on piano, Damian Cabaud on upright bass, and Marcos Cavaleiro on drums. Kurt's compositions were wonderfully arranged by Carlos Azevedo and Pedro Guedes, who conducted.
The result was WOW!!! To my ears, the nuances of many of Kurt's beatiful tunes were really opened up through this project. Highly creative and musical, and Kurt absolutely burns on guitar throughout.

By all means, purchase the officially released Our Secret World, to hear how this came alive in the studio, after you've heard how great it was live. Kurt has a new release coming up soon too called Star of Jupiter. Support these creative artists and projects by purchasing the official releases. That's what will enable more of this wonderful music to see the light of day.