Wicked Knee

Twenty years after Billy Martin asked Steven Bernstein to help him hatch a freaky avant brass band, Wicked Knee delivers their triumphant full-length debut. Heels Over Head brings together four of the downtown jazz scene’s most legendary improvisers for a collection of tunes guaranteed to drop jaws and move feet from the New York juke joint to the New Orleans street corner.

Available on CD and LP and in downloadable audio formats.
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Drawing by Sawyer Von Martin

We have played together in many settings over the decades: John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, Sex Mob, Medeski Martin & Wood, Spanish Fly, The Jazz Passengers, Get Shorty (The feature film) and many other gigs. Earlier 2010 we recorded illy B’s new tune to accompany his “anti-instructional” movie LIFE ON DRUMS (www.vongolefilms.com).

We play RagTimeFunk joints with inappropriate avant-garde interludes to keep everything out of focus. It’s about ‘good times during bad times’ and we encourage you to dance with us through life.

No hard feelings,
Your Wicked Knee