The Step After Next

Basking in a Kurt Rosenwinkel Quartet reunion

Ben Street, Mark Turner, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Jeff Ballard, as seen in the 1990s.

Kurt Rosenwinkel opened his late set at The Village Vanguard on Thursday with a series of oblique phrases on his D’Angelico guitar, its tone evoking the aqueous glow of a bioluminescent bay. He soon settled into a syncopated two-bar figure that many in the room surely recog…