Kurt Rosenwinkel & Orquestra Jazz De Matosinhos - 'Our Secret World: Live At Cara' & 'Our Secret World'

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.   😎

Mahavishnu Orchestra - 'Apocalypse'

Friday 50s, an album from 1974, so about a half-century ago... 😁

With Michael Tilson Thomas and the London Symphony Orchestra. "The union wasn't taken seriously at the time.... Don't let old, outworn preconceptions on either side of the fence prevent you from checking out this beautiful record." Richard Ginell/Allmusic. Album Wikipedia ; Discogs. 

The Mahavishnu Orchestra (MO) released 8 studio albums from 1971 - 89. This was the first album of the '2nd MO': John McLaughlin, guitars; Jean Luc Ponty, violin; Gayle Moran, keys & vocals; Ralphe Armstrong, bass; Narada Michael Walden, drums. Produced by '5th Beatle' George Martin. MO: Wikipedia ; Allmusic ; Discogs.

Mahavishnu Orchestra, Apocalypse, full album: YouTube ; Spotify

This is on the Jazz Best Albums 1974 playlist at Spotify/Jazz Todayish. 😎