#peter bernstein

[mikyapixie]

𝟚𝟙 ᒍᑌᗰᑭ ᔕTᖇEET 𝙿𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝟹𝟿 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝙰𝚐𝚘, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟷𝟸, 𝟷𝟿𝟾𝟽, 𝙾𝚗 𝙵𝚘𝚡!

[mariocki]

Silent Rage (1982)

"John killed him, right? Didn't he?"

"I don't care if he murdered a hundred people. We're scientists, not moralists. You know that we're all expendable. John Kirby is the future. Because of him it's possible that millions of lives can be saved."

"Only if we could have perfected the process, but there's no time. I mean, nobody's going to give us the Nobel Prize for murder."

[jazzplusplus]

Sonny Rollins Quintet (Vienne-2011)

Sonny Rollins sur la scène du festival Jazz à Vienne (France) en 2011.

Sonny Rollins (ts), Peter Bernstein (g), Bob Cranshaw (b), Kobie Watkins (dr), Sammy Figueroa (perc)

[mostlymonk]

Ugly Beauty

Peter Bernstein/Steve Cardenas Quartet

Peter Bernstein – guitar Steve Cardenas – guitar Vincente Archer – bass Bill Stewart – drums

[mosaicrecords]

Joey DeFrancesco to Stream Live from Van Gelder Studio

Next up in the series of live streams from the historic Van Gelder Studio: Joey DeFrancesco, playing Rudy Van Gelder's studio organ, with an impressive group including Billy Hart, Peter Bernstein and Houston Person, on Saturday, May 15 and May 16.

-Nick Moy

Info on the Stream…

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[jenslarsenjazz]

Peter Bernstein - How to be Musical in a Modal Context 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16fUIHONE70&index=36&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcHrelUZ4pBPVDwa5Q_wQuZI&t=0s 

 Most of the time Peter Bernstein is associated with more traditional moving harmony in jazz and not modal jazz as he is playing here, but it is clear that he feels quite at home in the modal setting. The lines are still the signature groovy and melodic ideas that he is known for and we hear him play many more modern devices such as Quartal Arpeggios and Super-imposed Pentatonics on the chords of the song. 

Peter Bernstein is probably most known for his work with Organ Trios. Albums with Melvin Rhyne, Mike LeDonne and Larry Goldings. The Solo I am analyzing some phrases from in this video is on the Joe Henderson Original: Inner Urge. It also features Sam Yahel on organ and Brian Blade on drums.

This series of Jazz Guitar Lessons has been running for some time and if there is somebody that you would like me to do a lesson on then please leave a comment!

Hope you like it!

[onett199x]

Peter Bernstein | Earth Tones

This is a 1997 album by guitarist Peter Bernstein featuring organist Larry Goldings and drummer Bill Stewart.  Like his other albums from... pretty much his whole career, this is a purely straight-ahead album, although this album is fairly unique for featuring an organ trio as opposed to a quartet with piano and bass.  The setlist is 5 Bernstein originals, one original from Larry Goldings, two standards, and a Hank Mobley tune.  I think both of the standards are really great recordings, and I really like Bernstein’s Sublime Indifference, Dragonfly, and Carrot Cake a lot.  Larry Goldings’ The Acrobat is also very good.  Peter Bernstein isn’t the flashiest guitarist around, but his albums are just so powerfully consistent and artfully performed that I do think he’s one of the best guitarists on the scene today.  I don’t know that this album is AS essential as Signs Of Life or Monk but it’s close - very, very good listen for modern jazz guitar fans.

[onett199x]

Steve Haines | Secret Stash

Steve Haines is the director of the Jazz Studies program at my alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  He’s released two albums before this one, and this isn’t his first album to feature a big name (guitarist Peter Bernstein this time around), either.  The one before this one, Stickadiboom, featured Jimmy Cobb on the drums.  Anyway, this is the third Steve Haines album, but it’s the first to be primarily without horns (there is one track where the band is joined by another of  UNCG’s Jazz Faculty, Brandon Lee, whose albums I’ve reviewed on here before as well).  The rest of the band this time is made up of guitarist Peter Bernstein, pianist Thomas Linger (an incredible talent - I can’t wait until he starts making some albums), and drummer Larry Q. Draughn Jr.  Thomas and Q were both on an album by another UNCG alumni that I’ve featured on here before as well, Annalise Stalls’ Music For Mounds.  

This album is really good.  It’s just solid, tasteful straight-ahead jazz with some fun tricks here and there.  The title track is a ton of fun, with a constantly-changing tempo that the band handles with ease, and there’s an arrangement of Dizzy Gillespie’s Con Alma that’s very good as well.  Brandon Lee joins in for the upbeat, cheerful The Best Thing For You, and while the sound of a trumpet always catches me off guard at this point in the album, it really adds to this tune.  There’s a track as well dedicated to one of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s jazz faculty, Jim Ketch, called Ketch Me If You Can (classic jazz humor).  Honestly, all of Steve Haines’ albums are good, but this one might be my favorite just because it has some of the tracks that immediately appeal to me the most in his discography (the title track and Con Alma come to mind).  That, and I’m more familiar with these musicians than I am with his bandmates on previous albums.  It’s great.  Fans of straight-ahead jazz will like it for sure.