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9/6/01 California Recording Institute, San Francisco, CA 1. Pure Improv #1 2. Pure Improv #2 12/13/01 Big Hut Studios, Berkeley, CA 3. The New Tempo 4. Elements Of Style > 5. Cold Sweat 6. Guitar Swap Jam 7. In The Mood 8. Low And Behold 3/17/03 Expression Center For New Media, Emeryville, CA 9. Two Hot Dogs And A Strawberry Coke 10. What's Left

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Alone Together [Dizzy Gillespie] Off Minor [Thelonius Monk] Goodbye Porkpie Hat [Charles Mingus] Zona Rosa Poincianna [Glenn Miller] Back at the Chicken Shack [Jimmy Smith]

Not Necessarily Beautiful But Stoned* [Will Bernard] From Russia With Love Seven Steps to Heaven [Miles Davis] Don't Talk Bryant's Bounce [Speedy West] Girl [Lennon/McCartney] Agua di Beber [ACJobim] Angel [Jimi Hendrix] Not Necessarily Beautiful But Stoned (Reprise)

Will Bernard Trio: Will Bernard (guitar) Jim Kassis (drums) Nick Cudahy (upright bass) * with Ray White on vocals

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d1t1.. Jam d1t2.. Isfahan* (Duke Ellington) d1t3.. Monk's Dream > (Thelonius Monk) d1t4.. Not Necessarily Beautiful, But Stoned (Will Bernard) d1t5.. Bird Food (Ornette Coleman)

d2t1.. What's Left (Will Bernard) d2t2.. Shut Up Shut Down > (Smith/Hoff) d2t3.. Afro Sheen (Will Bernard) d2t4.. White Rabbit > (Jefferson Airplane) d2t5.. Cold Sweat (James Brown)

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Introduction Wide Awake Aggro Business Unknown Acoustic #1* Not Necessarily Beautiful But Stoned Unknown Acoustic #2* What's Left Parental Guidance% > Unknown^

* - Will on acoustic guitar % - w/ Beth Custer on bass clarinet. Will pretends she isn't invited and looks mad. She stomps around stage. The band stops. The violin player takes a cell phone call and says she has to leave. The drummer storms off stage. It's obviously a joke. They eventually reconvene for the final jam, after some musical chairs and shuffling around ^ - Will on banjo, Beth Custer on bass clarinet and Adam Levy (from Norah Jones' Handsome Band) on Will's electric guitar. Also Jennie Scheinmann on a 2nd violin. This song sounds very familiar to me... possibly a movie theme or a Django Reinhardt tune, or both?

--world premieres of all songs except not necessarily and wide awake. --all songs written by will bernard. --the band was reading off of sheet music, drummer included.

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Improv One Afro Sheen Apfelbaum Tune^ > Sultan Pursuit of Happiness#

Improv Two** Ripple Sole I Don't Live Today^^ Money, Money, Money^^ Hey Good Lookin'^^ (encore): Elements of Style*

Will Bernard Trio - Will Bernard (guitar; piano on D2T2) Ches Smith (drums) Keith McArthur (electric bass) ^ - Will commonly precedes "Sultan" with this jam based on a Peter Apfelbaum composition; just not sure of the name. # - w/ "3rd Stone from the Sun" tease ending * - w/ "Tequila" jam ** - Will had amp problems at the beginning of the 2nd set; there was some intermittent crunchiness. At one point (around 18 min), in protest he put down his guitar and sat down at the upright piano that was sitting unused in the corner. Although the piano wasn't mic'ed in the PA system, you can still hear a lot of the keyboard action from this onstage recording. ^^ - Extremely loose improv's based on these classic rock/traditional themes (I Don't Live Today is by Jimi Hendrix, unsure of others).

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d1t1.. Blues Jam d1t2.. unknown d1t3.. unknown d1t4.. Wild Horses [Rolling Stones] d1t5.. unknown d1t6.. Hip Hug'er [Booker T & the MG's] d1t7.. Sunday Afternoon [the Kinks] d1t8.. Saving Grace [Will Bernard] d1t9.. unknown d1t10. Nobody's Fault but my Own [Beck]

d2t1.. Green Chimneys [Thelonius Monk] d2t2.. unknown d2t3.. The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down [the Band] d2t4.. Rounders [Will Bernard] d2t5.. Strange Brew > [Cream] d2t6.. Do the Hokey Pokey > [Traditional] d2t7.. Rainy Day Women #12+35 > [Bob Dylan] Someone Changed the Locks on Me > [Dr. John] d2t8.. Smells Like Teen Spirit [Nirvana]

You're not hallucinating. Guitarist Will Bernard (TJ Kirk, RW20th Congress, Motherbug) also plays some mean piano. This is a recording of it, solo style, in front of a clinking-fork dinner crowd.

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Set One: 1.. Sixteen 2.. Seventeen 3.. Eighteen 4.. Nineteen 5.. Spanish Classical 6.. Don't Talk 7.. Sunny Afternoon 8.. Saving Grace 9.. Motherbug Theme 10. Back at the Chicken Shack Set Two : 11. Someone Changed the Locks 12. Still In Love With You 13. Nobody's Fault 14. The Rain Song 15. Something 16. Ugly Beauty 17. This Guy's In Love with You 18. Encore: Tipitina's

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