Galesburg Area Chamber of Commerce recently issued the following announcement.
WHEN: Thursday, November 8, 2018 from 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
WHERE:The Orpheum Theatre at 57 S Kellogg St, Galesburg, IL 61401, USA
COST: This is a free event!
CONTACT: The Knox Jazz Year
309-341-7590
The Jerome Mirza Jazz Residency at Knox College brings world-renowned jazz artists to campus for a week of intensive and collaborative jazz activities, culminating in a free public concert at the historic Orpheum Theatre. The 6th annual Jerome Mirza Jazz Residency welcomes the Steven Bernstein Quartet. Join us at 7pm on November 8th for this Free concert! A jam session with the artists to follow the concert at the Fat Fish Pub.
Now celebrating its 20th year, The Steven Bernstein Quartet (Steven Bernstein - slide trumpet, Briggan Krauss - saxophones, Tony Scherr - bass, Kenny Wollesen - drums) continues to deconstruct familiar pop tunes with subversive impunity. Everything from Prince’s “Sign O’ the Times” to John Barry’s “Goldfinger,” the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple,” Nirvana’s “About a Girl,” the Rolling Stones’ “Ruby Tuesday,” Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth,” Paul McCartney’s “Live and Let Die” and ABBA’s “Fernando” is fair game for this band of musical renegades. In Bernstein’s words “I realize that's what jazz musicians have always done. That’s how Lester Young and Charlie Parker and Miles Davis got popular. They played the songs that everyone knew. And because they could recognize the song then that invited them into their style."
The fact that Bernstein exclusively plays slide trumpet gives the quartet an even more distinctive edge. As he puts it, “When you play the trumpet, Louis Armstrong is the king. But when I play the slide trumpet, I’m the king. It’s my voice. On trumpet, there’s no escaping Armstrong and Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Lester Bowie…all those cats. But on slide trumpet, it’s just me.”
Original source can be found here.
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