Steven Bernstein's Mto
Fri., Nov. 6, 8 p.m., $12, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, arsnovaworkshop.com.
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In the 1920s, '30s and '40s, listeners outside of the major cities where the leaders of jazz congregated were entertained by territory bands, regional touring ensembles who plied their trades at dance halls and joints. Trumpeter Steven Bernstein stepped into that era while arranging music for Robert Altman's Kansas City, and a few years later decided to adopt the concept for his own big band. Bernstein's home base is downtown NYC, but as always his "territory" encompasses a significant slice of the last century of popular music. The leader of the wise-ass avant-pop-jazz quartet Sex Mob, Bernstein has a deep knowledge and sly versatility that manifest in his own band playing swing with a punk sneer, or covering the Beatles a la Nawlins or deconstructing gypsy jazz, all in the course of a single set. As part of Ars Nova Workshop's Composer Portrait series, the Millennial Territory Orchestra will perform Don Cherry's 1973 epic "Relativity Suite."
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