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Steven Bernstein ResoNation Trio: Sitting on Top of the World
Once again, Bernstein brings positive energy and unexpected turns while chasing his fertile imagination. Why not leave the slide trumpet aside for a moment and focus on valve trumpet and flugelhorn? Why not experiment with a trumpet-led trio—a rarity in itself, and one that makes the project all the more intriguing? And why not then hand the session recordings to longtime friend and collaborator Scotty Hard and let him go full Teo Macero on them, cutting, deconstructing and reconstructing everything into Ultra Resonance a companion album which sounds remarkably different from—yet unmistakably connected to—the original recordings?.
At the heart of it all, though, Bernstein's urge to experiment and innovate is always grounded in deep musical roots, as on "Sitting on Top of the World," the classic country blues from the 1930s first recorded by another singular trio, The Mississippi Sheiks.
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