Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra - Tinctures In Time (Community Music 1)

Volume 1 from Steven Bernstein’s highly anticipated ‘Community Music’ series, ‘Tinctures in Time’ is the first original music that the acclaimed trumpeter, bandleader and arranger has ever written for the MTO, which from the beginning had exclusively been a vehicle for his arrangements of other people's songs, from Count Basie to Prince. Most of the album was composed in 2019, a tough year for Bernstein: Henry Butler had recently passed, and there were serious injuries and death in his immediate family. Like a lot of people do, Bernstein got through it by working. "The tincture of time" is a phrase Bernstein's father, a doctor, uses for when there's nothing to be done but wait for something to heal; the relevance of time as healer for Bernstein himself is clear. He altered the phrase so it makes a little reference to a favorite Sly Stone tune.