Minor Blues is a jazz composition by Kurt Rosenwinkel from his album The Next Step. It appears on the 2001 Verve release The Next Step, Rosenwinkel's fourth album as a band leader. The track lasts about 5 minutes and 54 seconds and features a quartet with Rosenwinkel on guitar, Mark Turner on tenor sax, Ben Street on bass, and Jeff Ballard on drums. The Next Step was developed from frequent Smalls Jazz Club gigs in New York and is regarded as a major step in Rosenwinkel's creative evolution, with material that would become live staples and later be re-recorded on Deep Song and Star of Jupiter. The music is modern jazz with intricate interlocking lines and some tracks use alternate guitar tunings.
