Evento
SÁBADO 10 NOVEMBRO - 21H30
Steven Bernstein, trompete e direção musical
Catherine Russell, voz
Curtis Fowlkes, trombone
Charlie Burnham, violino
Doug Wieselman, guitarra, clarinete baixo
Michael Blake, saxofone
Erik Lawrence, saxofone soprano e barítono
Matt Munisteri, guitarra, voz
Ben Allison, contrabaixo
Ben Perowsky, bateria
15,00 eur / 12,50 eur c/d
One of the highlights of this year’s edition of the festival will certainly be offered by the trumpeter, arranger and composer Steven Bernstein, one of the nuclear figures of New York’s jazz scene of the last thirty years, who in this concert will be joined by Catherine Russell, an unique jazz and blues singer who personifies the spirit of musical independence and an anti-starsystem attitude which constitute a valuable exception in the context of contemporary music. Both will be accompanied by the Millennial Territory Orchestra, the idiosyncratic big band founded and directed by Bernstein with the idea proposing an expansive and eclectic journey through the patrimony of the popular music of twentieth century, reinterpreting the compositions of very different composers, from Count Basie to the psychedelic folk rock band Grateful Dead.
A native of California, Steven Bernstein (b. 1961, USA) moved to New York on the late seventies of the past century, where he began his musical career after a period of studies in the reputed university of Berkeley. His first moment of visibility and recognition came when he joined John Lurie’s seminal post-jazz band, Lounge Lizards. In 1996, the trumpeter founds his own band, the Sexmob, alongside saxophonist Briggan Krauss, bassist Tony Scherr and drummer Kenny Wollesen, a project which is today considered one of the precursors of a frontier-expanding movement of jazz to more experimental territories and to the most extreme and marginal expressions of rock. Bernstein has also collaborated in the recordings of four albums from the series Radical Jewish Culture of John Zorn, and, besides the punctual collaborations with other musicians, he also worked as arranger for artists and composers such as Lou Reed, Bill Frisell or dub luminary Lee Scratch Perry.
Catherine Russell (b. 1956, USA) is one of today’s most original jazz and blues vocalists, with a solid career, both under her own name as well as in collaboration with some of the most prominent composers and arrangers of contemporary music, that transcend jazz’s frontiers. Her versatility and intuitive and emotional approach to music are the reasons why Catherine Russell is currently considered one of the greatest interpreters of the American songbook, and explain why she has worked with several important artists of our time, such as David Bowie, Paul Simon and Wynton Marsalis.
The collaboration between Steven Bernstein and Catherine Russell will be supported by Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra, a big band formed by a group of extraordinary musicians (such as trumpeter Curtis Fowlkes and guitarist Doug Wieselman, among others). Focused on a purpose of reinterpretation and transfiguration of the music of the twentieth century, the music of this orchestra is abundantly improvised and of a wide stylistic latitude, using the creative formulas invented in several fields of popular music in order to create new interpretations, adapted to an hypertextual modernity in which references are constantly being intersected by other references. Yet, what comes out of this idea is not even close to an analytic or cerebral music, since the presence of Catherine Russell, in an unprecedented collaboration with Bernstein and the Millennial Territory Band, confers an aural and timeless dimension to this project, qualities which are absolutely decisive in the art of the third millennium.