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Sexmob is a band of the now: post-modern waltzes mutating into dub-echoed free jazz. Sexmob is social music: a rollicking midnight set with clatter and drinks and a band. Sexmob is a happy contradiction: an experimental jazz outfit whose music has slid readily into the mainstream via Saturday Night Live, MTV, and National Public Radio. Dime Grind Palace is a house of deeply lasting pleasures: underground trombone legend Roswell Rudd bellowing and blowing over sweetly surprising changes. Dime Grind Palace is a house of sudden revelry: an accessible groove-etched hootenanny of frayed squawks and squeals. The winners of two Downbeat Critics' Polls (Best Beyond Group, Best Acoustic Group) have made what bandleader and trumpeter Steven Bernstein calls his "dream record." After four LPs focusing on the songbooks of others (including Duke Ellington and James Bond composer John Barry), the seven-year running Sexmob has turned in an album of original material in their own unique voice, the result of an ongoing dialogue between master players (saxophonist Briggan Krauss, bassist Tony Scherr, and drummer Kenny Wollesen) and a diverse palette of inspirations ranging from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to Dixieland to Little Richard

Sexmob at Joe Henderson Lab

by Steven Roby
July 18, 2026

Sexmob Joe Henderson Lab San Francisco, California July 16, 2026  The opening night of a four-night, eight-show run can be an awkward proposition, especially when the band has just returned from an overseas tour. Before the first note at Thursday's performance in the Joe Henderson Lab, Steven Bernstein, Sexmob's founder and ...

Steven Bernstein: The Trumpet's Blank Slate

by Lawrence Peryer
July 18, 2026

This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Steven Bernstein.Amongst his many activities, Steven leads Sexmob and the Millennial Territory Orchestra and serves as Laurie Anderson's musical director. He's out now with an entwined set of albums. ResoNation Trio (Royal Potato Family, 2026) pares him down to valve trumpet, bass, ...

Steven Bernstein: ResoNation Trio/Ultra Resonance

by Glenn Astarita
July 10, 2026

Steven Bernstein has never been a musician content to remain in one room for long. The co-founder of Sexmob and architect of the Millennial Territory Orchestra has spent three decades proving that the trumpet is capable of almost anything, including, it seems, taking a vacation from the slide. ResoNation Trio marks a rare occasion where Bernstein ...

Steven Bernstein Sexmob at Keltika, Cerkno

by Petra Cvelbar
July 22, 2025

Sexmob, Alexander Hawkins, Allen Lowe & Tim Berne

by Maurice Hogue
May 8, 2023

So much new music to explore. The always interesting Sex Mob debuts The Hard Way, Tim Berne hooks up with Hank Roberts and Aurora Nealand, saxophonist and composer and historian Allen Lowe has two new ones, there's a pair from Australia, a trio led by pianist Helen Svoboda and the group Tripataka, English pianist Alexander Hawkins' ...

Sexmob, Larry Goldings, Steve Argüelles, Tim Berne & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
April 22, 2023

The exciting collaboration between Sexmob and Scotty Hard and that involving Larry Goldings, Kaveh Rastegar and Abe Rounds open an episode focusing also on soundtracks, beat poetry and poetry of the beat, before closing with a sonic voyage by Tim Berne, Hank Roberts and Aurora Nealand.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme ...

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2022

by Martin Longley
December 13, 2022

Belgrade Jazz Festival Dom Omladine/MTS Dvorana Belgrade, Serbia October 26-30, 2022 There are now early signs that some festivals might be set to struggle during 2023, but even if certain aspects are reduced, much of the damage can be cosmetically screened. So far. Perhaps it depends on ...

A Night at the Jazz Circus! - Part 1

by Ludovico Granvassu
November 10, 2020

Circus is like Jazz. They both require a great deal of originality and a capacity to improvise and be in the moment. They come out of a sense of urgency and self-expression since artists do not embrace them to get rich. And they both demand incredible dedication and discipline. This week we explore the ...

Jazz for James Bond and other Secret Agents, Spies and Detectives - Part 1

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 25, 2020

For a reason or another, movies about detectives, secret agents or spies have gone mano a mano with jazz, and so this week we'll feature jazz inspired by adventurous characters. In this first segment, the focus is on James Bond and how anyone from Louis Armstrong and Count Basie to Bill Frisell, Dave Douglas and Steven ...