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Steven BernsteinSteven Bernstein is a trumpeter, slide trumpeter, arranger/composer, and bandleader from New York City. He is best known for his work in The Lounge Lizards, Sex Mob, Spanish Fly, and the Millennial Territory Orchestra...
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David TronzoDavid Tronzo is an American guitarist, best known for his innovation of pairing the techniques of electric slide guitar to the genres of bebop, modern jazz, rock, downtown music and experimental music...
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Marcus RojasMarcus Rojas is a tubist from New York City, best known for his work in jazz.He is a graduate of New York City's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and holds a B.M. degree from the New England Conservatory of Music.A longtime member of Spanish Fly, he has played...
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). Patricipation in other projects have limited the releases of this band.
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Spanish Fly is an avant garde
jazzJazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
trio from
New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
. It consists of
Steven BernsteinSteven Bernstein is a trumpeter, slide trumpeter, arranger/composer, and bandleader from New York City. He is best known for his work in The Lounge Lizards, Sex Mob, Spanish Fly, and the Millennial Territory Orchestra...
(
trumpetThe trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC...
),
David TronzoDavid Tronzo is an American guitarist, best known for his innovation of pairing the techniques of electric slide guitar to the genres of bebop, modern jazz, rock, downtown music and experimental music...
(
guitarThe guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that adapts readily to a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four-, seven-, eight-, ten-, eleven-, twelve-, thirteen- and eighteen-string guitars also exist. The size and shape of the neck and the base of the guitar...
), and
Marcus RojasMarcus Rojas is a tubist from New York City, best known for his work in jazz.He is a graduate of New York City's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and holds a B.M. degree from the New England Conservatory of Music.A longtime member of Spanish Fly, he has played...
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tubaThe tuba is the largest and lowest pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...
). Patricipation in other projects have limited the releases of this band.
Discography
- Fly by Night - 1994 on Accurate Records
- Rags to Britches [live] - 1994 on Knitting Factory Records
The Knitting Factory is a New York City, Hollywood, Boise, and Spokane music club and concert house, originally specializing in jazz and experimental music.-History:...