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Will Bernard is a guitarist and band leader. He has led the Will Bernard Band, Will Bernard Trio, Will Bernard 4-tet, and Motherbug.


Career

In the 1980s Bernard was a member of the Hieroglyphics Ensemble led by
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, and Jai Uttal.


Awards and honors

Grammy Award nomination, ''If Four Was One'', 1997Michael Ricci
Biography
''AllAboutJazz.com'' Retrieved September 6, 2007.


Discography


As leader

* ''Medicine Hat'' (
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, 1998) * ''Motherbug'' (Dreck to Disk, 2000) * ''Directions to My House'' (Dreck to Disk, 2005) * '' Party Hats'' ( Palmetto, 2007) * '' Blue Plate Special'' (Palmetto, 2008) * ''Night for Day'' (Bju, 2008) * ''Outdoor Living'' (Dreck to Disk, 2012) * ''Just Like Downtown'' (
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, 2013) * ''Out and About'' (Posi-Tone, 2016) * ''Freelance Subversives'' ( Ropeadope, 2020) * ''Ancient Grains'' (
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, 2021) With T.J. Kirk * ''T.J. Kirk'' ( Warner Bros., 1995) * ''If Four Was One'' (Warner Bros., 1996) * ''Talking Only Makes It Worse'' ( Ropeadope, 2003)


As sideman

With
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, 2006) * ''Emphasis! (On Parenthesis)'' (Telarc, 2008) * ''Groove Alchemy'' (Telarc, 2010) With Ben Sidran * ''Don't Cry For No Hipster'' (Nardis, 2012) * ''Picture Him Happy'' (Nardis, 2017) With Jai Uttal * ''Beggars and Saints'' (Triloka, 1994) * ''Shiva Station'' (Triloka, 1997) With others * Steven Bernstein, ''Diaspora Suite'' (
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, 2011) * Robert Walter, ''Giving Up the Ghost'' (Magna Carta, 2003)


References


External links


Official site
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