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Praise - Warren Bernhardt

Album: Hands On Artist: Warren Bernhardt Year: 1986 Label: DMP Warrent Bernhardt, Steinway Model D and Hamburg Steinway Model B grand pianos Peter Erskine, Drums Marc Johnson, Acoustic Bass (tracks 1,3,5 & 7) Anthony Jackson, Six-string electric contrabass guitar (tracks 2 & 4) John Tropea, Electric guitar (tracks 2 & 4) Kenny Ascher, Synthesizers (tracks 2 & 4) Robbie Kondor, Synthesizers and synthesizer programming (tracks 6 & 8) Rick Tuttobene, Additional synthesizers (tracks 6 & 8) Patterns and First Love arranged and conducted by Alan Foust Pianos tuned by Jeff Baker Special thanks to Courtney Spencer, Bruce Merley, and Peter Erskine. 1. Prelude, OP 28, No. 20 (F. Chopin) and Variations (Berhardt) 2. Funtime (Bernhardt) 3. Kind of Blue for Duke Ellington (Berhardt) 4. New Moon (Bernhardt) 5. October (George Young) 6. Patterns (Bernhardt) 7. Jan In January (Bernhardt) 8. First Love (Bernhardt) 9. Praise (Bernhardt) 1987 Digital Music Products, Inc Recorded direct-to-digital by Tom Jung using the Mitsubushi X-80 digital recorder at Clinton Recording, Studio A, New York on October 17 and 18, 1986 assisted by Rebecca Everett and at DMP on October 19 and 21, 1986. Produced and edited by Warren Bernhardt and Tom Jung Direct digital transfer was made from the Mitsubushi X-80 digital recorder to compact disc master using the Studer SFC-16 sampling frequency converter. I've just finished listening back to Hands On for the first time and I'm very pleased to be able to send it out to you just like it is. When Tom Jung and I originally tossed around our ideas for this album, we more or less agreed that our basic intention would be to give you the best results possible of how I approach songwriting and jazz piano playing at this particular point in my life. Simple. I would write and play songs for the piano and would play only the piano from beginning to end (no computers or sequencers here, my friends) and we would utilize the best things available: our favorite musicians, the best Steinway grand pianos and nothing but the finest Class A electronics to get music directly to our Mitsubishi X-80 and to you as purely and clearly as is possible. No mixing or overdubbing (well, just one on Patterns,) no hype, no meddling...just music. The results are very pleasing to me-I think we have succeeded. The digital medium is really a joy for me. We jazz players deal all of the time in quite spontaneous and very subtle nuances in our music and for years we've been trying to get people to hear them clearly. I myself love to change touch, using dynamics and pedaling, rests, and phrasing to make my point-and digital catches it all just as intended. Recording has come a long way in a few short years. It's very revealing and I prefer it that way. Hands on is a warm album. We had fun making it. All of the musicians who have joined me here are close friends of mine and their warm and impeccable musicianship shows up in every note they play. There were nothing but great vibes from everyone at Clinton studios, from our entire staff at DMP and from T.J., my co-producer whose equally impeccable engineering pleases me no end from the first notes of Chopin's Prelude to the last chord of Praise. I won't name them all individually here, but I urge you to read the credits thoroughly, for they are all beautiful folks and I thank them heartily. And as for the music, I think it speaks for itself. One last though though: Every note of Hands on is dedicated to the memory of my father, Larry Bernhardt, whose great piano playing and love for music entering my infant ears and filled my heart and soul with delight form the very beginning of my life. I can still close my eyes and --forty-some years later--hear the delicate sounds of his Chopin flowing up the stairs of my darkened room as, safe in my child's bed under the warm blankets, I turn over and smile and gaze at the bright stars burning clearly through my windowpane. Thanks dad. This one is for you. " -- Warren Bernhardt