Jazz Articles about Sexmob

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' Carnival Celestial, plus the duo of saxophonist Stanley Zappa and drummer Simo Laihonen return with Dance Of The Moving Goal Posts recorded live in ...

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 (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Sexmob “Benacek" The Hard Way (Corbett vs. Dempsey) 0:16 Host talks 4:54 Larry Goldings, Kaveh Rastegar, Abe ...

Sexmob at Blue Note Milano

by Roberto Cifarelli
October 13, 2017

Sexmob: Cultural Capital

by Nicola Negri
May 22, 2017

Vent'anni di Sexmob. Un gruppo nato quasi per caso, a metà anni 90, in occasione di un lungo ingaggio alla Knitting Factory di New York. Steven Bernstein lo aveva pensato come palestra personale per praticare uno strumento improbo come la slide trumpet, e per affinare le doti già significative di arrangiatore, oltre che per divertirsi con alcuni tra i suoi amici più stretti. La sfida era proprio quella di creare una musica che potesse arrivare immediatamente ad un pubblico ampio ...

Sex Mob: Cultural Capital

by Glenn Astarita
May 4, 2017

Sex Mob celebrates 20-years in the business going back to their initial 1996 gigs at New York City's downtown music scene hub, The Knitting Factory. With its first album in four-years, the band jubilantly returns via its crisscrossing of jazz with pop, funk and other genres, complemented by witty dialogues, mischievous improv sequences and treks into the free zone. Unlike previous programs this album consists of all slide trumpeter, Steven Bernstein originals. To a certain degree, Sex Mob's distinct stylizations ...

Top Ten "Most Read" Album Reviews: 2013

by AAJ Staff
January 2, 2014

All About Jazz tracks how often an album review is read, and the reviews listed below represent our top ten published in 2013. Sex Mob Cinema, Circus & Spaghetti (Sex Mob Plays Fellini) Wayne Shorter Quartet Wayne Shorter Quartet: Without a Net John Scofield John Scofield: Uberjam Deux Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette Somewhere Pat Metheny Pat Metheny: Tap--John Zorn's Book of Angels | ...

Sex Mob: Cinema, Circus & Spaghetti (Sex Mob Plays Fellini: The Music of Nino Rota)

by Troy Collins
March 21, 2013

Founded 17 years ago as a showcase for leader Steven Bernstein's unique slide trumpet, Sex Mob has since embraced a far more ambitious mission: to revive the adventurous spirit of prewar jazz. Bernstein realized early on that playing radically altered covers was the best way to lure an audience into his roguish sound world. Since then the group has deconstructed and reworked everything from ABBA's “Fernando" to the “Macarena," while 2001's Sex Mob Does Bond (Ropeadope) was dedicated solely to ...