“Arranger, composer, brass maniac, and musical alchemist Steven Bernstein is an all-purpose gift to human ears,” says POPMATTERS (2022 Album Review of ‘Good Time Music’). Steven Bernstein has done arrangements for Bill Frisell, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, Levon Helm, Lisa Fischer, Macy Gray, Little Feat, Taj Mahal, Catherine Russell, Madeleine Peyroux, Mavis Stapes, Linda Ronstadt, Roger Waters, Rufus Wainwright, Suzanne Vega, U2, Warren Haynes, Woody Allen, among numerous others! “Jazz is fun again. Yes, in the hands of a showman like Steven Bernstein it can be a ball…His Millennial Territory Orchestra is a nine-piece small band that reinvents the glory days of traveling jazz showmen playing an assortment of danceable blues and jazz,” states ALL ABOUT JAZZ.
An impactful presence on the New York scene over the past 30 years, GRAMMY® Award Nominated Trumpeter, Composer, Arranger & Bandleader STEVEN BERNSTEIN has immersed himself in such a wide array of music with his bands - Millennial Territory Orchestra, Diaspora Soul, Universal Melody Brass Band, Spanish Fly, Blue Campfire & the Butler-Bernstein Hot 9 - that he defies easy categorization. Tearing into witty & funky new arrangements of rarefied jazz nuggets from the 1920s and 30s, as well as radically transforming songs by artists such as Prince, The Grateful Dead and The Beatles, STEVEN BERNSTEIN leads an improvisational 9-piece outfit playing irreverent 21st-century jazz (MILLENIAL TERRITORY ORCHESTRA). Hailed as one of New York City's most legendary little big bands, Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra (MTO) is consistently praised for uniting sexy grooves spanning a century of music from Don Redman to Sly Stone to the present with daring jazz abandon. (Show is 2 One Hour Sets)