Artist description The Bernd Brothers CD, Permanent Solution, is a fusion of instrumental jazz, funk, rock and Latin grooves. This integration of styles features smooth as well as sizzling guitars played by Steve Bernd, serious funk and growling fretless bass lines played by Bill Bernd, outstanding drums and percussion by seasoned performer Jeff Geyer and red hot keyboards by David Hicks. The title track features tasteful chord progressions, nice harmonic leads, and a cool blend of guitar orchestration and improvisation, while "Skyline Drive" is a smooth instrumental guitar piece with a keyboard intro and outro. For a variety of jazz genres from hard driven fusion to smooth jazz, look no further than the Bernd Brothers' Permanent Solution.

Music Style Jazz Fusion, Smooth Jazz,

Musical Influences To many to list!

Similar Artists 4 Play, Santana, The Rippingtons,

Artist History Bill and Stephen reunited in March of 2001 to record their first cd ON FIRE! consisting of six original compostions, all instrumentals, with a variety of jazz genres from hard driven fusion to smooth jazz. Permanent Solution went all the way up to #1 on MP3.com Jazz fusion charts and stayed there approx twenty days. It also stayed on the top forty about six months. Funk-A-Tash was selected to be one of the songs preloaded on a popular mp3 player, Eastech, a company based out of Japan and hand chosen by Javamusic.com professionals. The second cd, RISK FACTOR! was recorded the following year in July of 2002. This cd consist of seven original compositions and also of many jazz styles, Skyline Drive is a smooth instrumental guitar piece with a keyboard intro and outtro, this song was selected by Judivor productions for a compilation cd The Jazz Room Jazz Mix Volume 1. along with other accomplished artist like Carmine D'Amico Ensemble, Morris Code , Daniel Martina, Triad to name just a few. The third cd, Permanent Solution is the best songs picked from both cd's and remastered and professionally produced !! The Bernd Brothers music have been listened to by more than 140,000 listeners on MP3.com and are very grateful for the recognition they have recieved since uploading their terrific music on the internet musical highway!

Group Members Steve Bernd, Guitars Bill Bernd Basses, Jeff Geyer Drums ans Percusion, David Hicks, Keyboards

Albums On Fire and Risk Factor

Press Reviews Guitar Player Mag. March 1984 issue.

Location Rockville, Md. - USA

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