Steven Bernstein is a trumpeter, slide trumpeter, arranger/composer, and bandleader from New York City. He is best known for his work in The Lounge Lizards, Sex Mob, Spanish Fly, and the Millennial Territory Orchestra. Sex Mob's 2006 CD "Sexotica " was nominated for a Grammy.
A ubiquitous figure in New York's downtown jazz scene, Steven Bernstein has been the musical director for the Kansas City Band (from Robert Altman's film Kansas City), Jim T...
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Steven Bernstein is a trumpeter, slide trumpeter, arranger/composer, and bandleader from New York City. He is best known for his work in The Lounge Lizards, Sex Mob, Spanish Fly, and the Millennial Territory Orchestra. Sex Mob's 2006 CD "Sexotica " was nominated for a Grammy.
A ubiquitous figure in New York's downtown jazz scene, Steven Bernstein has been the musical director for the Kansas City Band (from Robert Altman's film Kansas City), Jim Thirlwell's Steroid Maximus, and Hal Wilner's Leonard Cohen , Doc Pomus, and Bill Withers Projects. Bernstein has released four albums under his own name on John Zorn's Tzadik Records: Diaspora Soul, Diaspora Blues, Diaspora Hollywood, and Diaspora Suite. He has performed with jazz giants including Roswell Rudd,Sam Rivers, Don Byron, and Medeski, Martin & Wood, as well as artists as diverse as Aretha Franklin, Lou Reed, Linda Ronstadt, Digable Planets, Sting and Courtney Love. Since 2004 Bernstein has been a member of Levon Helm's Midnight...
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