Big Band 2025 posts its 6th album. 😁
Fifteen years ago the Portuguese
big band Orquestra Jazz De Matosinhos (OJDM) recorded Our Secret World with Kurt Rosenwinkel, the virtuoso guitarist from Philadelphia. A 2021 reunion concert recorded 4 tunes released now as a short album, or EP. Live performances are available on a YouTube video playlist. 🎸 🎺 🎷
Kurt Rosenwinkel, one of the world's top jazz guitarists, has released >25 albums and has credits on almost 150 albums since 1991. website ; Wikipedia ; Allmusic ; Discogs.
A post below is about two 2024 OJDM releases, with band info. A song from Músicas Brasileiras, Músicos Portugueses earned a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Arrangement. Farol: Musica de Carlos Azevedo is just plain fun.
Kurt Rosenwinkel & Orquestra Jazz De Matosinhos, Our Secret World - Live At Cara, full album: YouTube ; Spotify ; Bandcamp ; YouTube videos playlist.
This is on the Big Band 2025 and Jazz Best Albums 2025 playlists at Spotify/Jazz Todayish.
The original studio recording released in 2010 has 3 tunes not on the reunion EP. This was Kurt's 9th album as a leader. "....Our Secret World....has....the perfect combination of: compellingly unique source material; arrangers who dig....into the spirit and essence of the music to turn out charts of....great complexity and depth; and a clearly talented ensemble." John Kelman/AllAboutJazz. Album Wikipedia ; Discogs.
Kurt Rosenwinkel & Orquestra Jazz De Matosinhos, Our Secret World, full album: YouTube ; Spotify ; Bandcamp
Kurt and OJDM perform the tune 'Zhivago' from their 2010 collaboration. 😎
