Jazz Night in America: Arranging a one-man band for 10.
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Jazz Night in America: Arranging a one-man band for 10. with tags npr, npr music, national public radio, live, performance, henry butler, steven bernstein, the hot 9, jazz standard, blue smoke, jazz, new orleans, new york city (city/town/village), new york, jazz night in america, big band, funk, arrangement
When trumpeter and composer/arranger Steven Bernstein first met the virtuoso pianist Henry Butler, he says he was floored. "This is it," he recalls thinking. "This is like the music that I always imagined. Everything you ever loved about music, all being in one place, but now it's all coming from one person." Decades later, when they two finally began to work together, Bernstein started to study Butler's playing — and realized there were more than a few licks that set Butler apart.
Now that Butler and Bernstein co-lead a band called the Hot 9, they break down just how they built an ensemble around one man's signature style.
