Will Bernard

Will Bernard

Infobox musical artist
Name = Will Bernard



Img_capt = Wiil Bernard at the d.b.a. with Stanton Moore Trio during Jazz Fest, New Orleans 2007
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Instrument = Guitar
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Label = Palmetto
Associated_acts = The Will Bernard Band 4tet Motherbug Fully Loaded Stanton Moore Trio
Hieroglyphics Ensemble
URL = http://www.willbernard.com/
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Will Bernard is a guitarist and band leader from the San Francisco Bay Area, now living in Brooklyn, New York. His music is self-described as soul jazz and he has led the Will Bernard Band, Will Bernard Trio and Motherbug.

Bernard's first major touring and recording was with Peter Apfelbaum's Hieroglyphics Ensemble. In the mid 1990s he joined guitarists Charlie Hunter and John Schott as T.J. Kirk. The band's name originally "James T. Kirk" tributed James Brown, Thelonious Monk and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. [Interview, "Guitar Player Magazine", October 2007] Their second release, "If Four Was One", received a 1997 Grammy Award nomination. [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=2966 Biography] Michael Ricci, "AllAboutJazz.com" Retrieved September 6 2007] Bernard also received a Grammy Award nomination for his own "Party Hats" in 2007.

Bernard has played with many musicians including Jai Uttal and the Pagan Love Orchestra, The Coup, Robert Walter's 20th Congress, MG5 (formerly Frequinox), Idris Muhammad, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Zigaboo Modeliste, Groundation and the Stanton Moore Trio. [ [http://wm08.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?sql=11:acfqxqt5ldje~T0 Biography] Matt Collar, "AllMusic.com", Retrieved September 6 2007] In January 2008 Bernard began recording his second album with the Palmetto label including John Medeski on keyboards, Stanton Moore on drums and Andy Hess on bass. [ [http://www.willbernard.com/ Will Bernard Official Site - news] Retrieved September 14 2008]

Selected discography

*"If Four Was One" - T.J. Kirk (1997)
*"Medicine Hat" - Will Bernard Quartet (1998)
*"Motherbug" (2000)
*"Directions To My House" - Will Bernard Trio (2004)
*"III" - Stanton Moore (2006)
*"Party Hats" - Will Bernard (2007)
*"Emphasis! (On Parenthesis)" - Stanton Moore (2008)
*"Night for Day" - Bernard Emer Lackner Ferber (release date: June 2008)

References

External links

* [http://www.willbernard.com/ Will Bernard] - official site
* [http://www.bjurecords.com/BELF.html Bernard Emer Lackner Ferber] at BJURecords


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