From Playback by Derk Richardson.
From Utne Reader by Jennifer Odell.
From Alarm by Mike Hilleary.
For the past few nights, Steven Bernstein has been in what he calls “alternate universe.” Playing in Oakland as a special guest to virtuosic guitarist Charlie Hunter, the prolific trumpeter, bandleader, arranger, and composer has found himself in a rare state of artificial rest…
From The WIRE by Julian Cowley.
When at the close of the 1990s John Zorn first invited trumpeter Steven Bernstein to record for his radical Jewish Culture series, the outcome was Diaspora Soul…
From forward.com by Anthony Weiss.
Not many musicians appear both on the experimental jazz scene and in Anheuser-Busch ads, but then again, trumpeter Steve Bernstein is not your average musician…
From The New York Times: March 3, 2007 by JON PARELES.
Like any week at the old Knitting Factory, the concert encompassed songs and improvisations, delicacy and brute force, jazz and rock, melody and noise, and many things in between…
From Pop Matters by Will Layman.
The prolific trumpeter talks shirking musical definitions, finding challenging middle ground between ‘fake jazz’ and ‘real musicianship’, touring with They Might Be Giants, and turning down Jay-Z.
From All About Jazz by Paul Olson.
“People ask, ‘how do you write all this different music? You do so many different things.’ But my philosophy is that I absorb it and I just put it out. I’m always getting ideas because I’m always listening to music, constantly buying new CDs.”
From NPR.org by .
Backroom Retreat Provides Space for Musical Detective Work
From NPR.org by John Murph.
Steven Bernstein re-interprets everything from ‘20s jazz to an infamous Prince staple.