Healdsburg Jazz Festival: Will Bernard Quartet: Hip-Bop Funky Soul Jazz at Healdsburg Jazz Festival at Spoonbar

Get your tickets now and join us for the 15th Anniversary of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, May 31 – June 9. Click Ticket Price (above) to order or to learn more about this specific event.

Click Healdsburg Jazz Festival (above) to see a complete listing of events including a two day all-star Tribute to Charlie Haden including the Liberation Music Orchestra with Carla Bley, Quartet West with Ravi Coltrane plus Bill Frisell, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Lee Konitz, Geri Allen, Chris Potter. Other concerts include an exclusive engagement of the Charles Lloyd–Jason Moran duo, Sweet Honey in the Rock®, The Fred Hersch Trio, plus groups led by Azar Lawrence, Marcus Shelby, Will Bernard, Sylvia Cuenca and John Heard."...

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Get your tickets now and join us for the 15th Anniversary of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, May 31 – June 9. Click Ticket Price (above) to order or to learn more about this specific event.

Click Healdsburg Jazz Festival (above) to see a complete listing of events including a two day all-star Tribute to Charlie Haden including the Liberation Music Orchestra with Carla Bley, Quartet West with Ravi Coltrane plus Bill Frisell, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Lee Konitz, Geri Allen, Chris Potter. Other concerts include an exclusive engagement of the Charles Lloyd–Jason Moran duo, Sweet Honey in the Rock®, The Fred Hersch Trio, plus groups led by Azar Lawrence, Marcus Shelby, Will Bernard, Sylvia Cuenca and John Heard."

Funky Soul Jazz
A graduate of the famous Berkeley High School jazz program, Will Bernard made a big splash in the early '90s as one of the guitarists in T.J. Kirk, a band dedicated to insinuating the rhythms of James Brown into songs by Thelonious Monk and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Bernard takes his guitar cues from everywhere – Hendrix to Grant Green – but funkiness is his golden rule. That's a philosophy shared by his organ player, Wil Blades, a self-taught prodigy of the Hammond B-3. Silky tenor sax man Joe Cohen and New Orleans-styled drummer Brandon Etzler round out a quartet that is sure to keep the Spoonbar crowd in constant motion.

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