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.