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by AAJ Italy Staff
Nino Rota, l'immaginario felliniano e i Sex Mob. Una triangolazione perfetta. Talmente perfetta che vien da chiedersi come mai si sia fatta disco soltanto all'alba del 2013. La risposta è nelle note di copertina. Racconta Steven Bernstein che l'idea dell'omaggio gli ronzava in testa da un bel pezzo. Ma suona qua e partecipa là, si è arrivati al dunque sette anni dopo l'ultima fatica della band: Sexotica, uscito nel 2006. Da allora un live (con John Medeski, pubblicato dalla Thirsty ...
read moreSteven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra: MTO Plays Sly
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nel 2009, il Festival River To River di New York si stava preparando a celebrare il quarantesimo anniversario del raduno di Woodstock. Invitato a partecipare con la sua piccola-grande orchestra MTO, Steven Bernstein propose un tributo a Sly & The Family Stone. Dal punto di vista generazionale, Bernstein è troppo giovane per aver vissuto quegli anni, e l'epopea di Sly, in presa diretta. Tuttavia - stando a quanto lo stesso Bernstein racconta nelle note di copertina - tutta la sua ...
read moreSteven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra: MTO Plays Sly
by Chris May
Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory OrchestraMTO Plays SlyThe Royal Potato Family2011 The Sly Stone songbook is a solid gold thing, and it is strange that it is so rarely revisited. Then again, repertory tributes are generally paid to artists who have passed. Stone is still with us, although, it sometimes seems, only just: over the last few decades, he has been ravaged by “personal problems" which would likely have finished off any ...
read moreSex Mob: Sexmob Meets Medeski live in Willisau 2006
by Brandt Reiter
How best to describe slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein's singular quartet Sex Mob? Maybe we should start with mercurial musical magician Bernstein himself, whose exotic career as sideman, musical director, arranger and composer has included ten years with John Lurie's Lounge Lizards and stints alongside everyone from Bill Frisell to Sam Rivers, the Flying Karamazov Brothers and, oh yes, Bootsy Collins. Or maybe we should look at his career as bandleader, which includes the trumpet-slide guitar-tuba trio Spanish Fly and the ...
read moreSteven Bernstein - Marcus Rojas - Kresten Osgood: Tattoos and Mushrooms
by AAJ Italy Staff
La dimensione musicale allucinata, evocata dai funghi della copertina di questo simpatico e bizzarro disco, rende la propria cifra nel suono assolutamente unico (e a quel che ci risulta senza precedenti) in cui la batteria si incontra con tuba e tromba/tromba a culisse. L'impasto timbrico rimanda solo teoricamente alla tradizione, quella degli ottoni degli anni Venti e delle bande (che in effetti riecheggia nel portamento carnoso di Hofstra), perché poi gran parte di questo lavoro finisce quasi incredibilmente (ma anche ...
read moreSteven Bernstein / Marcus Rojas / Kresten Osgood: Tattoos and Mushrooms
by Chris Mosey
The line-up of slide trumpet, tuba and drums is, to say the least, somewhat unusual in jazz. As is the choice of Hank Williams' “So Lonesome I Could Cry" as a vehicle for improvisation. On Tattoos and Mushrooms, trumpeter Steven Bernstein, tubaist Marcus Rojas and drummer Kresten Osgood go boldly into aural regions where no man has gone before. To put it another way, this is not what Count Basie called “music to pat your foot to." ...
read moreMillenial Territory Orchestra: We Are MTO
by Tom Greenland
The Millennial Territory Orchestra, the lovechild of leader/arranger/slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein, is back with its sophomore release, We Are MTO, a typically boisterous romp through middle-Americana. Starring the same dramatis personae as its debut, the band is an unwieldy cast of character actors, strong individualists all capable of stealing the scene on any given song. Inspired by his researches for the film Kansas City, Bernstein continues to foment and signify on the sound of early '20s jazz ...
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