MTO Plays Sly

MTO Plays Sly
Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra

With Special Guests Antony Hegarty, Bernie Worrell, Bill Laswell, Dean Bowman, Martha Wainwright, Sandra St. Victor, Shilpa Ray and Vernon Reid

New York City s favorite 'little big band' Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra cracks open wide the monumental songbook of Sly & The Family Stone on its third album, MTO Plays Sly. On this freewheeling and jubilant 13-track tribute, MTO propelled by a dynamic cast of special guests treats Sly & The Family Stone with the same (ir)reverence it would Duke Ellington or Count Basie, illuminating the melodic and harmonic sophistication of the iconoclast's body of work by re-imagining the music through the filter of their own 'downtown NYC' aesthetic, while upholding the Day-Glo soul and psychedelic funk that is the backbone for classics like 'M'Lady,' 'Everyday People' and 'Family Affair.'

MTO is Steven Bernstein, Peter Apfelbaum, Doug Wieselman, Erik Lawrence, Curtis Fowlkes, Charlie Burnham, Matt Munisteri, Ben Allison and Ben Perowsky