BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:158155@kingstonhappenings.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261002T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261002T220000 DTSTAMP:20260827T125804Z URL:https://kingstonhappenings.org/events/steve-bernstein-resonation-trio/ SUMMARY:Steve Bernstein ResoNation Trio DESCRIPTION:GET TICKETS\n\nWildly adventurous trumpeter/composer Steven Be rnstein debuts his acoustic\, explorative ResoNation Trio on valve trum pet with bassist Scott Colley and drummer Nasheet Waits.\n\n“Arranger \, composer\, brass maniac\, and musical alchemist Steven Bernstein is an all-purpose gift to human ears. If you’re a living soul who has ever fel t your foot tap or your bottom swing side-to-side because of\, say\, Ray C harles or Little Feat or Louis Armstrong\, then you owe it to yourself to get Bernstein-ized. His musical net is wider than that\, but let’s start there.” – Will Layman\, PopMatters\n\n\nFew artists exult in the joy ous exhilaration and intrepid spirit of communal music-making with the fer vor and vitality of visionary bandleader\, trumpeter\, composer and arrang er Steven Bernstein. With a breathtaking pair of intimately interrelated new albums\, he applies that bold passion to an uncharacteristically pared -down setting\, then transforms those stunning sounds via a startling proc ess of sonic reinvention. The results are conjoined musical twins showcasi ng two radically different takes on the same radiant material.\n\nResoNati on Trio convenes a new chordless trio with master improvisers Scott Colle y on bass and Nasheet Waits on drums. The album’s contemplative explorat ions feel like a departure from the raucous spirit that characterizes so m uch of the trumpeter’s work\, yet the trio discovers such an audacious b eauty and celebratory gusto in these sparse environments that the music fe els uniquely Bernstein’s. . It is also a rarity in his oeuvre for featur ing Bernstein - whose mastery of the little-used slide trumpet has become so central to his sonic identity - exclusively playing valve trumpet and f lugelhorn.\n\nIn parallel with this captivating trio excursion\, Bernstein handed the recordings over to his longtime collaborator\, the pioneering producer Scotty Hard\, to reimagine the album through his own iconoclastic lens. The result is the uncategorizable Ultra Resonance\, which finds Ha rd breaking down the ResoNation Trio session into its constituent parts and redeploying them as the elements of a wholly original\, mutant creatio n. The project released on June 5\, 2026 via Royal Potato Family as a doub le vinyl or CD package containing both albums\, and separately on digital streaming platforms.\n\nWith ResoNation Trio\, Bernstein remains committ ed to finding fresh territory to explore in his own singular fashion. The sparse instrumentation of trumpet\, bass and drums yields a journey just a s fascinating and unique as any he’s crafted in the past. With the inspi ration of that trio format came the insistence on calling Colley and Waits \, who Bernstein first heard playing with the legendary pianist Andrew Hil l. The project also reignited his long-nurtured desire to explore a remix or dub-style retranslation of abstract improvisational music - a treatment typically accorded to more familiar pop music\, making the prospect thril lingly unpredictable. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://kingstonhappenings.org/wp-content/upload s/2026/08/Steve-Bernstein-ResoNation-Trio-Viewcy.png CATEGORIES:@Featured,Music LOCATION:Tempo Arts\, 29 Wurts St. \, KINGSTON\, NY\, 12401\, United States GEO:41.918241;-73.986437 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=29 Wurts St. \, KINGSTON\, NY\, 12401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Tempo Arts:geo:41.91 8241,-73.986437 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR