Sexmob/Allison Miller double CD release show

Sexmob celebrates the release of “Cinema, Circus and Spaghetti: Sexmob plays the music of Nino Rota” on May 8 at 92Y Tribeca.

The evening will be presented and broadcast by The Checkout from WBGO. This one is not to be missed!

advance tickets here »

Brass Tribe feature

Japanese cult magazine Brass Tribe gives Big Love to SB and his slide trumpets (click to enlarge).

Available Now!

The first new album from SEXMOB in over six years!!!

The press is coming in:
All About Jazz
All Music

Cinema, Circus & Spaghetti (Sexmob Plays Fellini: The Music of Nino Rota) is now available from Royal Potato Family. Get it now »

Or grab the Sexmob/MTO vinyl bundle – Two LPs for only $25 »

SEXMOB tours the West Coast!

Feb 19 at The Mint, LA
Feb 20 at Duende, Oakland
Feb 21 at Brick & Mortar, San Francisco
Feb 22 at Winterruption Festival, Vancouver
Feb 23 at Portland Jazz Festival
Feb 24 at Royal Room, Seattle w/ Burlesque and Spaghetti!

Creative Music Studio’s 40th Anniversary Workshop and Retreat

Steven joins an amazing roster of artists for four Days of intensive workshops, master classes, presentations and jam sessions. Including Oliver Lake, Dave Douglas, Steve Gorn, Harvey Sorgen, Marilyn Crispell, Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso (with more to sign on soon).

MAY 20 – 24, 2013 @ The Full Moon Resort Just Outside of Woodstock

more info »

Bernsteinfest at 55 Bar/APAP musical orgy January 14

10:00 Henry Butler meets MTO…. this brand new collaboration had its debut at the Jazz Standard in August, we are currently working on our 1st CD… Henry is the worlds funkiest piano virtuoso… theres a left turn around every corner…prepare to have your mind blown

11:30 Sexmob Plays Fellini:The music of Nino Rota….. this CD will be out in March on Royal Potato Family…. 17 years and counting Sexmob continues to explode musical paramaters

Bernstein at ShapeShifter Lab

This Saturday night! Spanish Fly….music will be played.

MTO plays Sly - Live @ Aperitivo In Concerto 2012

With special guest Bernie Worrell

Sexmob in Mexico

2 concerts w/ Troker – this week!
Oct 18 Mexico City
Oct 19 Guadalajara

More info here >>

The Sexmob Super Limited Edition NYC Summer Performance Pack

July 12 at 55 BAR – the only Sexmob show in NYC this summer. C’mon down!

Photo by Greg Aiello

MTO Plays Sly hits the Road

June 2 in Guadalajara Mexico
June 7 MTO meets Laurel & Hardy at Bonnaroo
June 8 MTO Plays Sly at Bonnaroo
June 30 MTO Plays Sly Cleveland Museum of Art Solstice Celebration
July 1 MTO Meets Laurel & Hardy Cleveland Museum of Art Solstice Celebration

The Undead Jazz Fest

It’s been five years since Tonic closed its’ doors. We are marking the occasion by celebrating the ten years of outstanding performances with an awesome chock-full reunion concert at Le Poisson Rouge on May 9th.

Here is the fabulous roster:

• Heather Greene’s project Argon 40 with Adam Williams will kick-off the evening with their upcoming UK release and Single! Come early (6:30pm) to check them out and enjoy the pre-show party and by party I mean FREE DRINKS!
• Ursa Minor with Michelle Casillas, Rob Jost, Robert DiPietro, & Tony Scherr
• Jamie Saft’s New Zion Trio
• Rufuseniks
• Vinicius Cantuaria Sextet
• Dougie Bowne’s Peninsula
• Billy Martin Improv with Erik Friedlander, Marcus Rojas & G. Calvin Weston
• Yuka C. Honda’s EUCADEMIX
• White Out w/ Bill Nace
• Elysian Fields
• Sex Mob
• Ben Perowsky’s Moodswing Orchestra with TK Wonder, Michael Blake & Danny Blume
• Vernon Reid, G. Calvin Weston & Jamaaladeen Tacuma
• and Mike Wolf DJs throughout the night!

Buy tickets here >>

New Music Observatory at The Stone

Millennial Territory Orchestra starts a Monday Residency at The Stone running 13 weeks(!) from April through June here in NYC.

Open rehearsal starts at 7:30pm each night with one set at 9:00.

13 Mondays, 13 new arrangements, special guests…

At the end of the run these 13 arrangements will be recorded for the next MTO release “13 from the Stone”

full schedule at thestonenyc.com

Steven Bernstein on KCSM Desert Island Jazz this Friday

Feb. 24th from 9-10am (Pacific Time)

SB parties in the Bay Area on KCSM’s legendary Desert Island Jazz show (8 songs and lots of stories)…

more here »

Bonnaroo Bound

MTO brings SLY the wilds of TENN this JUN.

TIX on sale this SAT!

Check it >>

Music to Soothe the Wild Booty!

Aqua-Booty… music by Sexmob (from Dime Grind Palace) …film/choreography by Marta Renzi…

Recent News

Photo above by Hollis King from the Paste article

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MTO in Wall Street Journal – The Broad Tent of Jazzfest

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Levon Helm up for Grammy #3, USA today accuses horn section of being on crack… see link

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Paste Magazine’s latest issue features a Winter Jazzfest summary and they say this about MTO:

One of the highlights of this year’s Winter Jazzfest in Manhattan’s West Village was Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra playing the music of Sly and the Family Stone. The 11-member ensemble resembled a reduced version of a traditional jazz big band with three reeds, two brass and upright bass, and every tune began as a moody, abstracted instrumental. But each selection eventually morphed into one of Sly Stone’s classic funk numbers—“Stand,” “My Lady” or “Everyday People“—and as the band started stomping on the one, you saw something you rarely see at a jazz show outside New Orleans: young people dancing.

Read the full article, available digitally via Paste’s M-Player app.

Sex Mob Plays Nino Rota, Ellington & Bond at 92YTribeca

Sexmob premieres the “Axis of Melody Suite”… We sweetened this up on the road – now we add the vinegar…

More info and tickets here

And the crowd goes wild!

An oddly named blog called blahblahblahscience.com has just laid down a killer recommendation for MTO’s Antony Hegarty-voiced version of “Family Affair” – 8 James Browns! Read the review here

Radio legend KCRW loves the track, too, making it Song of the Day for Friday, January 6th.

Listen to the track on either site – or both!