Sex Mob

With their playful, genre-crossing cover choices, Sex Mob are a band with a much larger mission: to put the fun back in jazz music. Led by slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein, the group has been a maverick presence on the Downtown New York creative music scene since their 1998 Knitting Factory debut, Din of Inequity. That album introduced both the group's almost telepathic improvisational style and directive to turn the standards-centric jazz playbook on its head. It's an approach that has found them tackling songs by artists like Prince, Nirvana, and ABBA, right alongside their ...