Kurt Rosenwinkel is an American jazz musician 🎷✨❤born in 1970 in Philadelphia. Rosenwinkel attended the Philadelphias school for the creative and performing arts. He studied at Berkelee’s College of music🎤🎼🎹🎶 for two and a half years before leaving in his third year year to tour with Gary Burton, the dean of the school at the time. After moving to Brooklyn, he began performing with human feel, Paul Motian’s Electric Bebop Band, Joe Henderson, and the Brian Blade Fellowship.

In 1995 he won the Composer’s Award from the National endowment for the arts and was signed by Verve Since then, he has played and recorded as a leader and sideman with Mark Turner, Brad Mehldau(!!!❤)Joel Frahm, and Brian Blade. The jazz book calls Rosenwinkel “a visionary composer, with an infinitely sensitive way of layering electronic sounds, borrowed from ambient music, dub, and drum and bass, and manipulating them intelligently.”❤✨

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