Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra

MTO Vol. 1 (2006) A

1. Darling Nikki
2. Cry Baby Cry
3. Happy Hour Blues

Don't tell Tipper Gore, but they had casual sex in the Thirties, too. The band plays loose around Bernstein's tight arrangement of "Darling Nikki", polyphony degenerating into dissonance, stopping, restarting and turning more raucous than ever, before bursting into clear horn lines at the end. A band on top of their game: you have to be to cut Prince.