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. The 11-track recording from Martin's own Amulet Records, brings together four of the New York City downtown jazz scene's most legendary improvisers, which along with Martin on drums and Bernstein on trumpet, features Curtis Fowlkes on trombone and Marcus Rojas on tuba. The resulting effort is a collection of tunes guaranteed to drop jaws and move feet from the New York juke joint to the New Orleans street corner. You'll hear Juke-Joint / Ragtime funk, jazz, rock and avant-garde interludes to keep everything "out of focus."

"I've always had this seed planted," says Martin, whose musical friendship with trumpeter Bernstein stretches back to their early days in John Lurie's Lounge Lizards. "It always made sense to have a small, pocket brass group.

These maverick instrumentalists form a who's-who of international jazz, rock and chamber music, they've performed in just about every music festival and in various settings around the globe through the decades: John Lurie s Lounge Lizards, Medeski Martin & Wood, Levon Helm band, Sex Mob, Dr. John, John Zorn, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, etc...

Track Listing
Side 1
Ghumba Zumba
Theme One
Button to Button
Rendezvous
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Side 2
Muffaletta
Sugarfoot Stomp
Mbwemofolo
Noctiluca