Jazz Articles about Dave Bernstein

Dave Bernstein Quartet: C the Blues

by William Grim
November 9, 2002

Dave Bernstein is one of the best jazz guitarists around, equally at home in both straight ahead/bop and traditional blues. This eclectic CD is a wonderful introduction to a fantastic musican who is not well known outside the San Francisco area.

The range of tunes included on this CD are astonishing. Simple, traditional solo guitar blues pieces like “Extemporaneous" and its adverbial counterpart “Extemporaneously" stand as contrast to rarely performed works such as Cecil Taylor's “Louise" and Bud ...