FEB 22-25 | Steven Bernstein
Feb 22 - Feb 23, 2024
Joe Henderson Lab
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Original show description below.
Trumpeter Steven Bernstein’s week begins with his long-running band Sexmob, playing a cross-section of fresh material and selections from their repertoire.
Tearing into witty and funky new arrangements of little-known Jazz nuggets from the 1920s and 30s, as well as radically transforming songs by artists such as Prince and the Beatles, Steven Bernstein (GRAMMY-nominated Composer/Sexmob Trumpeter) leads an improvisational outfit playing irreverent 21st-century Jazz. The band is consistently praised for uniting sexy grooves spanning a century of music from Don Redman to Sly Stone to the present with Free Jazz Abandon.
ABOUT STEVEN BERNSTEIN
A master of the previously obscure slide trumpet, Berkeley-born Steven Bernstein is a fearless improviser, composer and arranger whose résumé includes collaboration with Bill Frisell, Levon Helm, Lou Reed, Linda Ronstadt, Henry Butler, and Allen Toussaint. He leads the cinematically inspired band Sexmob, the Millennial Territory Orchestra – an ensemble rooted in the territory bands of the 1920s and 30s, and the Butler-Bernstein Hot 9 devoted to the early jazz of Fats Waller and Jelly Roll Morton.
Tearing into witty and funky new arrangements of little-known jazz nuggets from the 1920s and 30s, as well as radically transforming songs by artists such as Prince, and the Beatles, Steven Bernstein leads an 9-piece outfit playing irreverent 21st-century Jazz.
A trumpeter so constantly in-demand the word 'prolific' would only make him sound lazy
JazzTimes
A trumpeter so constantly in-demand the word 'prolific' would only make him sound lazy
JazzTimes
Personnel
Steven Bernstein slide trumpet
Briggan Krauss baritone & soprano saxophone
Tony Scherr bass
Kenny Wollesen drums, percussion
The band Sexmob specializes in a distinct strain of deconstructionist improvised music: jazz that aims at fun by bouncing off the walls.
NPR Music
Personnel
Steven Bernstein slide trumpet
Briggan Krauss baritone & soprano saxophone
Tony Scherr bass
Kenny Wollesen drums, percussion
The band Sexmob specializes in a distinct strain of deconstructionist improvised music: jazz that aims at fun by bouncing off the walls.
NPR Music
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