Star of Jupiter is Kurt Rosenwinkel's tenth album as a band leader. This album includes a new band and is Rosenwinkel's first quartet album since The Next Step (2001). The album includes mostly new songs with a remake of an old composition, "A Shifting Design". A review at All About Jazz called the album "a contemporary classic." Transcriptions of the album have been published by Mel Bay.
Track listing All pieces by Kurt Rosenwinkel.
Disc 1: "Gamma Band" – 7:03 "Welcome Home" – 4:46 "Something, Sometime" – 6:21 "Mr. Hope" – 5:30 "Heavenly Bodies" – 11:25 "Homage A'Mitch" – 7:47
Disc 2: "Spirit Kiss" – 8:39 "kurt1" – 6:51 "Under It All" – 7:27 "A Shifting Design" – 5:59 "Deja Vu" – 10:54 "Star of Jupiter" – 8:58
Personnel
Kurt Rosenwinkel – guitar and vocals Aaron Parks – piano Eric Revis – bass Justin Faulkner – drums
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