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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Randy Bernsen</b> (* <a href="15._Juli" title="15. Juli">15. Juli</a> <a href="1954" title="1954">1954</a> in <a href="Needham_(Massachusetts)" title="Needham (Massachusetts)">Needham (Massachusetts)</a>) ist ein amerikanischer <a href="Gitarrist" title="Gitarrist">Gitarrist</a> und <a href="Komponist" title="Komponist">Komponist</a> der <a href="Jazz" title="Jazz">Jazz</a>- und <a href="Fusion_(Musik)" title="Fusion (Musik)">Fusionmusik</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Werdegang">Werdegang</h2></div>
<p>Bernsen wuchs in Florida auf; er besuchte die <i>High School</i> in <a href="Plantation_(Broward_County%2C_Florida)" title="Plantation (Broward County, Florida)">Plantation</a> und war in den Clubs von Südflorida ab dem 17. Lebensjahr aktiv. Er studierte an der <a href="University_of_Miami" title="University of Miami">University of Miami</a>. Mitte der 1970er Jahre gehörte er zum <i>Peter Graves Orchestra</i>, das im <i>Bachelors III</i> mit <a href="Jaco_Pastorius" title="Jaco Pastorius">Jaco Pastorius</a> spielte. 1977 gehörte er zu <a href="Blood%2C_Sweat_%26_Tears" title="Blood, Sweat & Tears">Blood, Sweat & Tears</a>. An Bernsens Debütalbum <i>Music for People, Planets & Washing Machines</i> (1986) waren zahlreiche Größen des Fusionjazz wie <a href="Urszula_Dudziak" title="Urszula Dudziak">Urszula Dudziak</a>, <a href="Bob_James" title="Bob James">Bob James</a>, <a href="Herbie_Hancock" title="Herbie Hancock">Herbie Hancock</a>, Jaco Pastorius und <a href="Peter_Erskine" title="Peter Erskine">Peter Erskine</a> beteiligt. Nach guten Kritiken gelang es Bernsen, für das Folgealbum <i>Mo‘ Wasabi</i> <a href="Wayne_Shorter" title="Wayne Shorter">Wayne Shorter</a> und <a href="Michael_Brecker" title="Michael Brecker">Michael Brecker</a>, <a href="Marcus_Miller" title="Marcus Miller">Marcus Miller</a>, <a href="Steve_Gadd" title="Steve Gadd">Steve Gadd</a> und <a href="Toots_Thielemans" title="Toots Thielemans">Toots Thielemans</a> zu verpflichten.
</p><p>Bernsen tourte seit den 1990er Jahren mit eigenen Gruppen von <a href="Fort_Lauderdale" title="Fort Lauderdale">Fort Lauderdale</a> aus; gelegentlich war er für Konzertreisen in Südostasien und in Mexiko. 1992 war er an <a href="Joe_Zawinul" title="Joe Zawinul">Joe Zawinuls</a> Album <i>Lost Tribes</i> beteiligt; mit dem <i>Peter Graves Orchestra</i> spielte er 2003 den Pastorius-Tribut <i>Word of Mouth Revisited</i> ein, dem 2006 <i>The World is Out</i> folgte. <a href="Tom_Lord" title="Tom Lord">Tom Lord</a> verzeichnet 42 Einspielungen Bernsens zwischen 1979 und 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Er ist auch auf Alben von Silvano Monasterios und <a href="J%C3%BCrgen_Attig" title="Jürgen Attig">Jürgen Attig</a> zu hören.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Diskographische_Hinweise">Diskographische Hinweise</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>Music for People, Planets & Washing Machines</i> (Zebra 1986, mit <a href="Micha%C5%82_Urbaniak" title="Michał Urbaniak">Michael Urbaniak</a>, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius, <a href="Ray_Peterson" title="Ray Peterson">Ray Peterson</a>, Peter Erskine, Bob James, <a href="Robert_Thomas_junior" title="Robert Thomas junior">Bobby Thomas Jr.</a>, Urszula Dudziak, <a href="Othello_Molineaux" title="Othello Molineaux">Othello Molineaux</a> u. a.)</li>
<li><i>Mo‘ Wasabi</i> (Zebra 1987)</li>
<li><i>Paradise Citizens</i> (Zebra 1988)</li>
<li><i>Calling Me Back Home</i> (101 South Records 1992)</li>
<li><i>Live in San Miguel de Allande</i> (2001, mit Nicole Yarling, Richard Brookens, Javier Carrion, Archie Pena)</li>
<li><i>Grace Notes</i> (2015, mit Steve Tavaglione, Scott Kinsey, Mac Chew, Colin James, <a href="Jimmy_Haslip" title="Jimmy Haslip">Jimmy Haslip</a>, <a href="Russell_Ferrante" title="Russell Ferrante">Russell Ferrante</a>, Peter Erskine, <a href="Gary_Novak" title="Gary Novak">Gary Novak</a>, <a href="Virgil_Donati" title="Virgil Donati">Virgil Donati</a>, Luis Conte, Archie Pena, <a href="Julius_Pastorius" title="Julius Pastorius">Julius Pastorius</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Tom Lord: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lordisco.com/musicians/B15.html">The Jazz Discography</a></span>
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/grace-notes-randy-bernsen-jerico-jams-review-by-geannine-reid.php">Besprechung <i>Grace Notes</i> (All About Jazz)</a></span>
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