Will Bernard and Beth Custer

An expansive guitarist who is equally comfortable playing funk, blues, and many strains of jazz, Will Bernard is also a bandleader, composer, and first-call studio and touring sideman. With a distinctive, rounded, warm yet bitingly percussive tone, he is adept at virtually any musical style he chooses to play, from jazz and blues to R&B, funk, and hip-hop. His work has appeared on dozens of recordings by artists ranging from Don Cherry to Stanton Moore. Bernard made his leader debut with the star-studded Medicine Hat in 1998. His proper critical breakthrough arrived after the ...