Erik Deutsch and the Jazz Outlaws

Having first come to prominence as a member of the funk-jazz collective Fat Mama, Brooklyn-based pianist Erik Deutsch has taken toured and recorded with pop artists like Norah Jones, Rosanne Cash, Citizen Cope, Shooter Jennings, Alice Smith, Antony and the Johnsons, Phillip Phillips, Joey Arias, Devotchka, and Erin McKeown; or with jazz artists like Charlie Hunter, Theo Bleckmann, Ben Allison, Scott Amendola, Trevor Dunn, Steven Bernstein, Ellery Eskelin, Jim Campilongo, Nels Cline, Jenny Scheinman, Allison Miller, Todd Sickafoose, and Art Lande.

Erik just finished a brand new recording entitled Outlaw Jazz. Featuring a new blend of countrified jazz with his signature psychedelic soul jazz sound, Deutsch is joined by an all-star cast of musicians including country music icon Shooter Jennings on vocals. Released on February 24, 2015 on the Nashville-based record label Cumberland Bros, and the first single "Whistlers and Jugglers" was featured on Rolling Stone last month.

Country music and jazz can make for strange bedfellows, but musicians who love both sometimes create fascinating hybrids, like vibraphonist Gary Burton's ahead-of-its-time 1966 album Tennessee Firebird and guitarist Bill Frisell's bluegrass-infused Nashville. Add New York-based pianist Erik Deutsch's Outlaw Jazz to that list.
--Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY

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Steven Bernstein is a grammy-nominated trumpter/arranger/composer/bandleader best known for his work in Sex Mob, the Lounge Lizards, the Millennial Territory Orchestra. His most recent album is the Henry Butler/Steven Bernstein Hot 9 released on Impulse Records in 2014. Steven was the musical director for Robert Altman's Kansas City Band and and the musical director for the Leanard Cohen documentary 'I'm Your Man." He was a longtime member of Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble band, and has written for Elton John, Rufus Wainright, and Marianne Faithfull among others.