Medicine Hat

Artist: Will Bernard
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 731453932524
EAN: 0731453932524
ASIN: B0000047GE

Release Date: 1998-01-13

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Tracks:

Close Shave (Part 1)
Boomtown
Medicine Hat
Prankster
3-Ply
Koko A Poko
Trap Door Spider
Nobody's Looking
Tank Top
Pollyanna
Do Not Bend

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Customer Reviews:

Excellent.......2004-09-21

In addition to being a fine guitarist, Will Bernard is an excellent composer, and this CD is a wonderful showcase for his talent. There are some really bad-ass tunes here. "Prankster" is one of my favorite tunes, period. Some may say the sound is somewhat derivative of MMW, but still, the tunes are original and many of the compositional ideas are superb. I think you can even feel some Ellington influence. I always thought that if only he'd been able to capitalize on this record by touring as an opener for MMW, Will Bernard would've gotten a hell of a lot more famous, and this major label would be providing us with more great Will Bernard albums.

You need this album..........2000-05-01

This is an absolutely brilliant, thrilling debut. Bernard's guitar playing is fluid and harmonically rich and his masterful compositions manage to push all the right soul-jazz buttons while still being jam-packed with complex musical detail and joyous, surprising angles. Drummer Scott Amendola is perfection: energetic, unfailingly musical and astonishingly dynamic. Rob Burger is a monster on the B-3 (& accordion on one Nobody's Looking) and John Shifflett supplies deep, interesting grooves and some pleasantly, subtly jarring counterpoint. BUY THIS ALBUM! This is original modern jazz, AND soul jazz that doesn't go for the easier, more rote gestures of that genre. This album has it all, and I honestly can't imagine anyone not digging it.

Skip this CD, unless you're into depression........1999-03-28

First let me state I had never heard of Mr. Bernard until I saw his cd in the rack. I purchased the cd based on the music description on the cover of the cd itself. It sounded promising as I am a fan of blues/funk/jazz guitar music (j.golub, r. cray, etc.). No doubt about Mr Bernard's virtuosity is there, but this cd is overshadowed by a darkness of sound that is cast over the entire the cd. There are not any light moments here. The hammond organ sound completely wipes out the lead instrument of Mr Bernard. I was beginning wonder whose album this was any way. The organ dominates instead of accompanying the guitar. Looking forward to the next cd by Mr Bernard though, as there is something about his playing (as little as was heard) that is appealing. Wait til then unless you're into the darkness of the hammond organ as presented here. Later.

This is some jazzy funky stuff!.......1998-07-03

I love the way Bernard layers funk rhythms onto the complicated guitar. The music cascades and builds, creating a compelling montage of sound. This is music that grooves and moves!

Edgy, bluesy jazz fusion -- off center and wonderful.......1998-05-05

I wanted to take this one back to the store after I got it home, but I kept hearing stretches in some of the cuts that caught my ear as wonderfully off-center, a slightly dizzy combination of guitar licks and hammond organ riffs, somewhere in that dreamland between jazz and rock -- the darn thing grew on me, and here I am a hopeless fan. I'm gonna listen to this one a LOT.

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