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| 1. | V'lirushalayim Irchu
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| 2. | Blessing
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| 3. | Aveenu Malkenu
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| 4. | Commentary I
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| 5. | Lucky
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| 6. | Misratze B'rachamim
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| 7. | Chant
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| 8. | Commentary II
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| 9. | Post
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| 10. | N'Kadesh Oz B'kol
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| 11. | Ribino Shel Olom
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Jazz
Steven Bernstein - Arranger, Producer, Slide Trumpet, Songwriter, Trumpet
Anthony Cole - Drums, Sax (Tenor)
Doug Mathews - Bass (Acoustic), Clarinet (Bass), Engineer
* Heung-Heung "Chippy" Chin - Design
* John Zorn - Executive Producer
* Kazunori Sugiyama - Associate Producer
* Michael Macioce - Cover Photo
* Scott Hull - Mastering
Upon first listen, Diaspora Blues (a follow-up to 1999's Diaspora Soul) seems to be a very different kind of Steven Bernstein record. In place of the joyous, at times comical, brass pop that Bernstein normally feeds on (such as the John Barry scores of Sex Mob Does Bond) are somber, meditative Hebrew melodies. Likewise, Bernstein's punchy Sex Mob has (temporarily, anyway) been replaced by the Sam Rivers Trio. Gradually, though, things begin to fall into place. A quote in the liner notes from Abraham Idelson is the first hint: "The main basis of Semitic and Jewish music is the minor scale which at a very late date, came to be considered of a melancholy character by the Anglo-Saxon only." In other words, this is bread-and-butter Bernstein, albeit with a new twist: There is redemption -- or, at least, temporary salvation -- through music. Music is to be a happy, celebratory, social occasion. Here, it is dressed up in more adult clothing. But, as one hears Bernstein's slide trumpet pull Sam Rivers' saxophone off into free jazz territory during the traditional "Blessing" before dropping back into more contemplative waters, one gets a different sense of this music (much of which is based on the transcriptions of Cantor Moshe Koussevitsky). The improvisatory flourishes that frame the melodies do much to transmit this information. And, as with the Bond project as well as the earlier Solid Sender, Bernstein has composed a variety of numbers -- including "Commentary I," "Commentary II," and "Chant" -- that pursue both the spirit of the material from which he is drawing and the boundary-pushing downtown jazz that is his lifeblood.
---Jesse Jarnow, All Music Guide
Steven Bernstein
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Modern Creative, World Fusion, Fusion, Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz, Jewish Music
New York trumpeter Steven Bernstein was music director of John Lurie's Lounge Lizards, co-leader of the trio Spanish Fly, and served as arranger and leader of the Kansas City Band (from the Robert Altman film and Verve All Stars Tour). Bernstein then began leading his own groups and recordings, as with his gritty cover band, Sex Mob, in which Bernstein plays slide trumpet(!), and the suave and impressive Diaspora Soul, released in 1999 on Tzadik. Bernstein has a variety of musical experience, from arranging the Academy Award-nominated score for the film Get Shorty, to playing and recording with artists as disparate as Tricky, Foetus, Aretha Franklin, Mel Torme, They Might Be Giants, Bootsy Collins, Don Byron, and many more.
---Joslyn Layne, All Music Guide |
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