Adam Bernstein
"..regardless of format, AB is a brilliant tunesmith whose colorful vibes blind the shady music industry." - Home News
Adam Bernstein's new CD " Dust Off The TImeless Night" is now available. Produced by "They Might Be Giants" drummer Marty Beller, the CD features the great songwriting, and fantastic musicianship you always expect from AB. Special guests include Laurie Berkner, Jack Petruzzelli (Rufus Wainwright/Fab Faux), Peter Kiesewalter (East Village Opera Co.) and Tricia Scotti.
An accomplished composer, arranger and educator as well as bassist, Adam led the successful folk/rock/klezmer/funk 14-piece big band All God's Children for six years. The Aquarian Weekly (NJ) named Adam "Best Bassist" and the band "Best Band" in 1993. He later performed and/or recorded with a wide range of talented musicians and dancers, including Levon Helm, Sahib Shihab, Perry Robinson, Walter Perkins, Ethel (string quartet), Teocinte (from El Salvador), Jack Hardy, Claire Daly, The Angstones, Solar, David Driver, Sean Altman and Jennifer Muller/The Works.
In 1990 Adam toured Japan with Hilario Soto's Higher Culture, and in 1993 studied percussion at the Escuela Nacional De Danzaq Moderna Y Folklorica in Havana, Cuba. As a composer and arranger, Adam co-arranged the score for a television program on Groucho Marx that aired on the A&E network's popular series "Biography." He has composed many scores for dance, performed at Columbia and Rutgers universities as well as other performances spaces.
In 1998, while continuing to perform and record, Adam turned his attention toward jazz education. He is the jazz director at the Berkeley-Carroll School in Brooklyn, NY and on the faculty at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He received a proclamation for his outstanding work in jazz education from Brooklyn Borough president Marty Markowitz on June 3, 2005.
Adam is currently working with the band Solar promoting their CD "Suns of Cosmic Consciousness" and playing with NYC based americana band "The Mudlarks".
Adam Bernstein will be performing as part of The Laurie Berkner Band on the new season of NOGGIN's "Jack's Big Music Show." Adam played bass on Laurie Berkner's first three award-winning and critically acclaimed releases, 1997's 'Whaddaya Think Of That?', 1998's 'Buzz Buzz,' and 1999's 'Victor Vito.'
quotes
"The songs written by Bernstein resonate amongst those of us who are trapped in the concrete jungle. The memories of lost loves, unattained loves and desired loves flood all who listen with images of their own experience." - Vos Valley News
"Bernstein provides fine original songs including "Room For The New" and "Long Way Down"" - The Advocate
"The ensemble led by eccentric genius AB, are entertaining as well as enlightening." - The Courier News
"Led by bassist AB whose influences lie more in classic jazz arrangers like Sun Ra and Charles Mingus uses those influences to beef up an addicting style of pop." - Internet Music Service
"Easily sandwiched between Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone' and the Beatles 'Hey Jude'.." - The Courier News
discography
(as a player, composer and arranger)
Adam Bernstein - Dust Off the Timeless Night - 2007
Solar - Suns of Cosmic Consciousness - 2005
Rebecca Martin - Land of My Dreams - 2005
Claire Daly with Solar (CD) - Heaven Help Us All - 2004
Adam Bernstein - Yo Mama Yo (CD) - 2001
The Saras - Siamese Connection (CD) - 2000 (arrangements only)
Driver Quartet - Big And Strong And Lonely (CD) - 1998
Driver Quartet - Night Time (CD) - 2000
Laurie Berkner - Whaddaya Think Of That (CD) - 1997
Laurie Berkner - Buzz Buzz (CD) - 1998
Laurie Berkner - Victor Vito (CD) - 1999
Land Of Minerals - Songs about getting' out there and doing your thing (cassette) - 1997
Eli Yamin - Pushin'30 (CD) -1998
Mark Bradley - Extraordinary (CD) - 1995
Fisherman's Stew - Letter to Norway (CD) - 1995
All Gods' Children - Thorazine Stretch Factor comp CD (Guns and Humus)-1990
All Gods' Children - self titled (cassette) - 1990
All Gods' Children - Zapata and other love songs (cassette) - 1993
All Gods' Children - unreleased (cassette) - 1994
All Gods' Children - Nice Garden (cassette) - 1996