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These are a few of the pictures I took at Charlie Wrights on 31st July '08 ALL STAR group from NEW YORK featuring one of the most important guitarists, KURT ROSENWINKEL at CHARLIE WRIGHT'SWILL VINSON GROUP featuring KURT ROSENWINKELThis all-star band also featured:on drums is the versatile and exciting German-born, Brooklyn native Jochen Rueckert who has worked with Rosenwinkel in the past, and laying down the foundation on acoustic bass is US-born, London based virtuoso Michael Janisch, who has become the first call for high profile transatlantic encounters in the UK.Hibla Movies on Youtube.com
Preview from TIME OUT: NYC-based guitarist Rosenwinkel is widely regarded as one of the instrument's most important and gifted players today. While his Metheny-ish touch is smoothly melodic, he's capable of astonishingly angular flights and incendiary, skronking solos. Altoist Vinson is equally acclaimed and possesses a similarly lethal approach to writing and soloing. These two nights are their only UK appearances, and a very rare chance indeed to hear them outside of their native Downtown territory. www.timeout.com/london/music/events/780003/kurt_rosenwinkel-will_vinson_group.html
Preview from GUARDIAN: If you can't tell a book by the cover, you can't tell a saxophone player by what sounds at first like their primary influence either. Will Vinson, the technically adroit alto and soprano saxophonist who went to work in New York, is certainly capable of the kind of sharply accented, minimally lyrical, high-pressure sax virtuosity heard countless times over the years in the foaming wake of John Coltrane. Vinson has a sophisticated interest in the long, twisting, dynamically reserved melody lines of both the pre-Coltrane Cool School era and the linear intricacies of Steve Coleman, Greg Osby and Chris Potter. For these two gigs he's joined by versatile guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel (pictured), who can get started from deceptively reticent, Frisell-like beginnings - but if his solos might begin with sleepwalking chords, they soon find their way to flying double-time runs full of fresh phrasing, intriguingly veering between elaborate caution and deep-breath leaps across abysses. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/jul/26/jazz.londonlistings for more information about the gigs and bookings check www.myspace.com/charliewrights The address: Charlie Wrights International, 45 Pitfield St, N1 6DA (Old Street tube),
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