Bassist

Trumpeter Steven Bernstein’s week begins with his long-running band Sex Mob, playing a cross-section of fresh material and selections from their repertoire.

The quartet has honed a singular sound over two decades marked by high-energy, protean group improvisation and rollicking grooves unlike any other band on the planet. Originally formed for a weekly residency at New York’s Knitting Factory, they’ve earned a devoted fan base with boisterous deconstructions of tunes by a shaggy menagerie of pop acts, from Abba and James Brown to Prince and Elvis Presley, and subversively re-imagined film music of Nino Rota and John Barry. They’ve released nine superlative albums for the Ropeadope, Columbia, Rex, Thirsty Ear, and Royal Potato labels.

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Steven Bernstein: Sex Mob

SFJAZZ Center

WORDS ON FIVE FROM BILL:
I’ve been dreaming of this for a long long time.
Kenny Wollesen, Tony Scherr, and I have a long long history playing as a trio.
Rudy Royston, Thomas Morgan, and I have a long long history playing as a trio.
I’ve played trio with Rudy and Tony.
I’ve played trio with Kenny and Thomas.
I’ve played duets with all of them.
They are my friends, my teachers, my heroes. Every moment a joy and inspiration.

Bill Frisell FIVE

Count Basie Center for the Arts

Musical traditions yearning for each other across race, class, and nation grace acclaimed soprano Alicia Hall Moran’s (The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess) meditation on the classic Motown songbook — a cinematic aria fusing “Sugar Pie Honey Bunch” with Mozart, while Marvin Gaye’s lyrical pathos finds solemnity in Purcell. The Motown Project fantasizes Motor City poetics in a musing of desire and infatuation only the soul of one chanteuse could endure.

Tony Scherr

Bassist

Events

Past events

22 - 23 Feb, 2024

Steven Bernstein: Sex Mob · San Francisco Jazz

Oct 18, 2023

Bill Frisell FIVE · Count Basie Center for the Arts

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