“Geri Allen and Kurt Rosenwinkel are beautifully compatible. Their sound and musicality are a perfect fit on this gem recording. So happy it is finally being shared with the world! I always felt that Geri’s chordal motion was very guitar-oriented, so the simpatico between them is no surprise.” – Terri Lyne Carrington.

Motéma Music, in harmonious collaboration with Kurt Rosenwinkel’s Heartcore Records, looks forward to joyfully unveiling to the world a musical treasure that has been hidden in the vaults of Cite de La Musique in Paris since 2012.

The delicate masterwork, A Lovesome Thing allows the magical synergy between the late and legendary pianist Geri Allen and the innovative and very much in-demand guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel to be heard for the first time on record.

For friends and fans of Geri Allen, who were heartbroken by her untimely death in 2017, this release offers a blessed opportunity to hear her voice (both musically and literally) once again and to experience a magical evening of music that was especially important to her.

1. A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing (10:19)
2. Embraceable You (11:47)
3. Geri’s Introductions (1:13)
4. Simple #2 (7:52)
5. Ruby My Dear (11:21)
6. Kurt’s Introductions (00:10)
7. Open-Handed Reach (10:50)

This dutifully impassioned new recording opens on the stoically-hued A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing and the dutifully ornate Embraceable You, before we are next brought the minute long Geri’s Introductions (which itself features a lot of applause), which leads us into the beautiful hipsway within Simple #2, the late night soiree of Thelonious Monk’s Ruby My Dear, and after a quick ten second Kurt’s Introductions, this mesmerizing display of improvised musical telepathy rounds out on the playfully pleasing Open-Handed Reach.

The release of A Lovesome Thing finds Rosenwinkel in a watershed moment as he tours to support the four Heartcore albums that he’s released since January of 2022: Undercover, Berlin Baritone, The Chopin Project, and Kurt Rosenwinkel Plays Piano. Happily, he will be joining Motéma in Paris on as part of a three-night celebration of the label’s 20th Anniversary releases to take place at the Sunset/Sunside Club in Paris on November 2–4.

On Nov 2 & 3, the Afro/jazz/flamenco trio Flamenkora and Mongolian piano sensation Shuteen Erdenebaatar (with her Quartet) will celebrate their debut recordings, and then on November 4, Rosenwinkel will close out the celebration with music from A Lovesome Thing performed with pianist Gerald Clayton who previously worked under Allen’s wing in her ‘Errol Garner, Concert by the Sea’ project.

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