Steve Bernstein

A widely diverse, N.Y.C.-trumpeter, composer, and arranger, Steven Bernstein is best known as the founder/leader of the adventurous avant-jazz outfit Sex Mob. Following early work with Peter Apfelbaum and Karen Mantler, Bernstein gained attention as the music director for the Lounge Lizards before launching his own Spanish Fly Trio. Their work at the Knitting Factory paved the way for Sex Mob, who debuted with 1998's Din of Inequity and earned a Grammy nomination for 2006's Sexotica. Between 1999 and 2008, he issued four aesthetically linked, critically acclaimed outings for J...