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Peter Bernstein | “Better Angels”

Peter Bernstein Convenes a Remarkable All-Star Quartet for his Stunning New Smoke Sessions Release Available Now, Better Angels Features Pianist Brad Mehldau, Bassist Vicente Archer, and Legendary Drummer Al Foster Jazz Guitar Today Interview with Peter Bernstein “Even in an album that mostly swings hard, Bernstein reveals that his true gift is ballads. Only an artist with…

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Peter Bernstein | “Better Angels”

Peter Bernstein Convenes a Remarkable All-Star Quartet for his Stunning New Smoke Sessions Release Better Angels, out September 27, Features Pianist Brad Mehldau, Bassist Vicente Archer, and Legendary Drummer Al Foster DownBeat magazine has called Peter Bernstein “a guitarist so good he often sounds like two guitarists in a duet… [reflecting] a mastery that is elegant, mellow and…

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Smoke Sessions Records Celebrates Great Artistry in 2020

Smoke Sessions Records Celebrates Great Artistry in 2020 with Releases by Late Harold Mabern, Wayne Escoffery, Orrin Evans Captain Black Big Band, Bobby Watson, Eddie Henderson, Joe Farnsworth, Peter Bernstein, and Eric Reed 2021 Kicks Off with Albums From Greg Skaff with Ron Carter and Tootie Heath; Vincent Herring with Cyrus Chestnut, Johnathan Blake, Yasushi Nakamura…

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AVAILABLE NOW + EPK: Peter Bernstein | “What Comes Next” | Smoke Sessions Records

AVAILABLE NOW via Smoke Sessions Records:   Guitarist Peter Bernstein Emerges From Quarantine With a New Album, What Comes Next, That Looks Hopefully Forward in Spite of an Uncertain Future   Features Sullivan Fortner, Peter Washington, and Joe Farnsworth   Scintillating Originals, Reimagined Standards, and a Previously Unrecorded Sonny Rollins Composition The title of What Comes Next, the…

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Peter Bernstein | “What Comes Next” | Available October 16 via Smoke Sessions Records

Guitarist Peter Bernstein Emerges From Quarantine With a New Album, What Comes Next, That Looks Hopefully Forward in Spite of an Uncertain Future Due Out October 16 via Smoke Sessions Records: Features Sullivan Fortner, Peter Washington, and Joe Farnsworth Scintillating Originals, Reimagined Standards, and a Previously Unrecorded Sonny Rollins Composition Peter Bernstein, Sullivan Fortner, Peter…

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Peter Bernstein – “Signs LIVE!” – Available July 28

A record release party two decades in the making, Signs LIVE! reunites the four master musicians who came together 20 years earlier to record the acclaimed Signs of Life, the second album by guitar-great Peter Bernstein. Recorded live at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the album captures the long-awaited live debut of Bernstein’s once-in-a-lifetime quartet featuring pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist Christian McBride,…

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