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 Peter Apfelbaum. In the 1990s he formed the band T. J. Kirk in San Francisco with Charlie Hunter and John Schott. The band's name "James T. Kirk" was taken from

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, and

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.Interview, ''Guitar Player'', October 2007. Palmetto released his debut solo album, ''Blue Plate Special'', in 2008. He has also worked with

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, John Ellis, John Medeski, Stanton Moore, 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'' ( Posi-Tone, 2013) * ''Out and About'' (Posi-Tone, 2016) * ''Freelance Subversives'' ( Ropeadope, 2020) * ''Ancient Grains'' ( Posi-Tone, 2021) * ''Pond Life'' ( Posi-Tone, 2022) With T.J. Kirk * ''T.J. Kirk'' (

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, 1995) * ''If Four Was One'' (Warner Bros., 1996) * ''Talking Only Makes It Worse'' ( Ropeadope, 2003)

As sideman

With Peter Apfelbaum * ''Signs of Life'' ( Gramavision, 1996) * ''It Is Written'' (ACT Music">ACT, 2005) With Stanton Moore * ''

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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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, 2008) * Anthony Brown, ''Rhapsodies'' (Water Baby, 2005) * Don Cherry, ''Multikulti'' ( A&M, 1990) * Spearhead, ''Home'' ( Capitol, 1994) * Trance Mission, ''Trance Mission'' (City of Tribes, 1993) *

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, '' Bad as Me'' (

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, 2011) * Robert Walter, ''Giving Up the Ghost'' (Magna Carta, 2003)

References

External links

Official site
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