Sexmob

Sexmob
Sexmob performing live in the Satchmo club, Maribor, Slovenia on November 16, 2011
Sexmob performing live in the Satchmo club, Maribor, Slovenia on November 16, 2011
Background information
OriginNew York City
GenresJazz
LabelsKnitting Factory, Ropeadope, Thirsty Ear
Members

Sexmob (also styled Sex Mob) is an American jazz band based in New York City that formed as a Knitting Factory vehicle for Steven Bernstein to exercise his slide trumpet.[1][2] Sexmob's sets feature a high proportion of covers, usually familiar pop songs, which are given a humorous but avant-garde treatment. Bernstein points out that this is a return to a fundamental jazz tradition to take a familiar song and then disassemble and reassemble it.

Sexmob was Laurie Anderson's band on her 2023-2024 Let X=X tour.

Discography

  • Din of Inequity (Knitting Factory, 1998)
  • Solid Sender (Knitting Factory, 2000)
  • Theatre & Dance (2000)
  • Sex Mob Does Bond (Ropeadope, 2001)
  • Dime Grind Palace (Ropeadope, 2003)
  • Sexotica (Thirsty Ear, 2006)
  • Sexmob meets Medeski Live in Willisau 2006 (Thirsty Ear, 2009)
  • Sexmob Plays Fellini: Cinema, Circus & Spaghetti, the Music of Nino Rota (2013)
  • Cultural Capital (2017)
  • The Hard Way (Corbett vs Dempsey, 2023)[3]

References

  1. ^ Gettelman, Parry (March 20, 1998). "Sex Mob Makes Bold with Music". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
  2. ^ Gilbert, Andrew (April 4, 2017). "Steven Bernstein's Bay Area homecoming: From Jewish jazz to Sexmob to 'mood music'". The Mercury News. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
  3. ^ "The Hard Way".
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