Bernie Worrell (keyboardist, composer and record producer)

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eponymous member of:	Colonel Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie Brains
member of:	Activities of Dust (Doug Scharin / Jeff Parker / Bill Laswell / Bernie Worrell) Baby Elephant Black Jack Johnson Bahia Black (Afro-Jazz group) George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars Flo (One-off alias of Parliament/Funkadelic) Fool Proof (jazz group, late 1980's) (organ, piano) Fred Schneider & The Shake Society (Fred Schneider side project) (keyboard, Moog, bass synthesizer) Funkadelic George Clinton and Family Jerry Harrison: Casual Gods Jack Bruce And The Cuicoland Express Khu.éex' Material (group and producer team led by Bill Laswell) Method of Defiance Niels and the New York Street Percussionists Parliament Praxis (Bill Laswell musical project) Sacred System Shin.e (Buckethead, Bill Laswell & Shin Terai) SociaLybrium (Funk) Space Cadets (P-Funk related) The P-Funk Mob Third Rail (jazz group (James Blood Ulmer/Bill Laswell)) WesNWorrell The Woo Warriors World-Wide-Funkdrive Chubby & The Turnpikes (in 1968)
original member of:	Bernie Worrell Orchestra (principal) Worrell's Open Operatives
supporting bass guitar by:	Brett Bass (bass guitarist)
married:	Judie Jones

part of:	Paste: 100 Best Living Songwriters (number: 88) (order: 121)

IMDb:	https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941600/ [info]
Discogs:	https://www.discogs.com/artist/33708 [info]
official homepages:	http://www.bernieworrell.com/ [info]
other databases:	https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb139766011 [info] https://d-nb.info/gnd/134561147 [info]
stream for free:	https://open.spotify.com/artist/3vB7T6czx1Jh89YEnzM0UF [info]
Allmusic:	https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000059503 [info]
VIAF ID:	29726384 [info]
Wikidata:	Q826598 [info]

Appearances

Date	Title	Credited as	Attributes	Artist	Length
	arranged
	All Your Goodies Are Gone			Parliament	5:06
	I Can Move You (If You Let Me)			Parliament	2:46
	I Just Got Back			Parliament	4:31
	Presence of a Brain			Parliament	3:20
	Testify			Parliament	3:49
	The Goose			Parliament	9:10
	Up for the Down Stroke			Parliament	5:10
	Whatever Makes Baby Feel Good			Parliament	5:58
	instruments
1983-12	Life During Wartime (live) (live, 1983‐12: Pantages Theater, Hollywood, CA, USA)		additional and keyboard	Talking Heads	5:05
1983-12	Slippery People (live, 1983‐12: Pantages Theater, Hollywood, CA, USA)		additional and keyboard	Talking Heads	4:14
1987-07 – 1987-08	Choui		keyboard	Jonas Hellborg	6:03
1987-07 – 1987-08	Moon		flute and Hammond organ	Jonas Hellborg	3:46
1987-07 – 1987-08	Movers and Shakers		keyboard	Jonas Hellborg	3:20
1987-07 – 1987-08	No Place to Go		keyboard	Jonas Hellborg	4:27
1987-07 – 1987-08	Shine		keyboard	Jonas Hellborg	3:04
1987-07 – 1987-08	Zakir		keyboard	Jonas Hellborg	5:52
1993	Blood Secrets		Hammond organ	Bernie Worrell	6:50
1993	Dissinfordollars		synthesizer	Bernie Worrell	6:28
1993	Flex		synthesizer	Bernie Worrell	6:05
1993	Flex		Hammond organ	Bernie Worrell	6:05
1993	Revelation in Black Light		harpsichord	Bernie Worrell	2:22
1993	The Vision		electric piano	Bernie Worrell	8:05
1993	The Vision		synthesizer	Bernie Worrell	8:05
1993	Time Was (Events in the Elsewhere)		synthesizer	Bernie Worrell	7:21
1993	Time Was (Events in the Elsewhere)		Hammond organ	Bernie Worrell	7:21
1993	Time Was (Events in the Elsewhere)		melodica	Bernie Worrell	7:21
1993	Won't Go Away		synthesizer	Bernie Worrell	5:58
1993	X-Factor		Hammond organ	Bernie Worrell	11:54
1995	Country Mile		keyboard	Pharoah Sanders	6:04
1995	Kumba		keyboard	Pharoah Sanders	7:50
1995	Nozipho		keyboard	Pharoah Sanders	9:42
1995	Ocean Song		keyboard	Pharoah Sanders	8:49
1995	Our Roots (Began in Africa)		keyboard	Pharoah Sanders	10:21
1995	Tomoki		keyboard	Pharoah Sanders	6:26
1998	Save Our Children		electric piano, organ and synthesizer	Pharoah Sanders	7:53
2000	99 Names		keyboard	James Blood Ulmer	4:56
2000	As It Is		keyboard	James Blood Ulmer	5:26
2000	Home Alone		keyboard	James Blood Ulmer	7:00
2000	I Can Tell		keyboard	James Blood Ulmer	4:42
2000	Momentarily		keyboard	James Blood Ulmer	5:56
2000	O Gentle One		keyboard	James Blood Ulmer	6:06
2000	On and On		keyboard	James Blood Ulmer	3:56
2000	Pull on Up to Love		keyboard	James Blood Ulmer	4:47
2000	We Got to Get Together		keyboard	James Blood Ulmer	5:29
2003-05-03	Chameleon		guest and organ	Gov’t Mule	16:25
2003-05-03	Sco-Mule		guest and keyboard	Gov’t Mule	8:57
2005	Cut You Loose		keyboard	Buddy Guy	7:39
2005	I Miss You		keyboard	Buddy Guy feat. Shemekia Copeland	4:07
2005	I’d Rather Be Blind, Crippled and Crazy		keyboard	Buddy Guy	3:32
2005	Somebody’s Sleeping in My Bed		keyboard	Buddy Guy	6:28
2009-09-03	Anachronizer		keyboard	Method of Defiance	4:51
2009-09-03	Black Rain		keyboard	Method of Defiance	4:54
2009-09-03	Dis Never		keyboard	Method of Defiance	4:31
2009-09-03	DJ Krush		keyboard	Method of Defiance	4:30
2009-09-03	Encore 2: Sweet Music		keyboard	Method of Defiance	5:46
2009-09-03	Engore 1: Revolution / Murderer (Down In the Ghetto)		keyboard	Method of Defiance	5:21
2009-09-03	Gangsta N Police		keyboard	Method of Defiance	4:35
2009-09-03	Gangster For Life		keyboard	Method of Defiance	3:57
2009-09-03	Introduction		keyboard	Method of Defiance	7:51
2009-09-03	No Justice		keyboard	Method of Defiance	5:59
2009-09-03	Patterns of War		keyboard	Method of Defiance	10:19
2009-09-03	Sapporo part 5		keyboard	Method of Defiance	2:08
2009-09-03	Sapporo part 10		keyboard	Method of Defiance	6:59
2009-09-03	Sinsemilla		keyboard	Method of Defiance	6:33
	(Something Else Is) Working Harder		Hammond organ	The Golden Palominos	5:18
	A Question of Time		melodica	Jack Bruce	5:34
	Afro Beat		synthesizer	Deadline	6:31
	Afro-Blue (encore) (live, 1998-12-31: The Roxy Theatre, Atlanta, GA, USA)		electric piano, guest and organ	Gov’t Mule	29:30
	Anachronizer (Asteroid B449)		keyboard	Method of Defiance	10:43
	Are You Gonna Go My Way (live, 1993-09-09: Late Show with David Letterman, Ed Sullivan Theater, New York, NY, USA)	Bernie Worrel	clavinet	Lenny Kravitz	3:30
	As In		piano	Funkadelic feat. Jessica Cleaves	6:50
	As In		keyboard [keyboards]	Funkadelic feat. Jessica Cleaves	6:50
	Bank Job		piano	Sly & Robbie	3:56
	Big Business		clavinet	David Byrne	5:06
	Big Enough		organ	Keith Richards	3:19
	Black Rain		keyboard	Method of Defiance	5:49
	Boat Peoples		synthesizer	Deadline	7:03
	Bomba		organ	Angélique Kidjo feat. Rostam Batmanglij	3:44
	Boom There We Go Again		synthesizer [Arp Pro Soloist]	Funkadelic	2:56
	Boom There We Go Again		piano	Funkadelic	2:56
	Boops (Here to Go)		piano	Sly & Robbie	5:15
	Boy (Go)		organ	The Golden Palominos	5:19
	Brute Force		organ	Keith Richards	4:00
	California Dreamin'		keyboard	Eddie Hazel	6:14
	California Dreamin' (Reprise)		keyboard	Eddie Hazel	1:25
	Carey Came Back		organ	Julian Schnabel	5:31
	Catfish Blues		guest and organ	Gov’t Mule	7:55
	Chamber Seven		keyboard	Method of Defiance	5:19
	Chevrolet		organ	Robben Ford	5:47
	Chevrolet		clavinet	Robben Ford	5:47
	Chill Factor		synthesizer	The Pretenders	3:27
	Chill Factor		organ	The Pretenders	3:27
	Clustering Train		organ	The Golden Palominos	6:04
	Code Woo - Condensed Fiction / Volunteered Slavery		keyboard	Method of Defiance	3:56
	Codeplan Armoured (Stimulation Assassination)		keyboard	Method of Defiance	8:06
	Combat		piano	David Byrne	2:45
	Come to Me		keyboard	Diesel	4:23
	Comin' Up		clavinet	Robben Ford	4:55
	Comin' Up		organ	Robben Ford	4:55
	Cortez the Killer (live, 1998-12-31: The Roxy Theatre, Atlanta, GA, USA)		guest and organ	Gov’t Mule	14:12
	Cosmic Slop		Hammond organ [Hammond B-3 organ]	Material	5:17
	Dance! (edit)		synthesizer	The Pretenders	4:45
	Dance!		synthesizer	The Pretenders	6:44
	Dark Heat		keyboard	Method of Defiance	8:07
	Devil Likes It Slow (live, 1998-12-31: The Roxy Theatre, Atlanta, GA, USA)		guest and organ	Gov’t Mule	10:44
	Diamond		Hammond organ	The Golden Palominos	4:44
	Diss Never		keyboard	Method of Defiance	3:26
	Do or Die		keyboard	Method of Defiance	2:58
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	instruments arranged
	As In		strings	Funkadelic feat. Jessica Cleaves	6:50
	performed
	Cosmic Slop (live, 1976-09: New York, NY, USA)			Funkadelic	6:28
	Get to This, Get to That			Sly & Robbie	5:16
	Groovallegiance			Funkadelic	7:00
	Make ’em Move			Sly & Robbie	8:01
	Pata Piya			Manu Dibango	6:38
	produced
	Afrofuturism (Phazed One)			Bernie Worrell	16:27
	Hope Is Here			Bernie Worrell	6:06
	I Miss My Baby			U.S. Music With Funkadelic	5:05
	In Pursuit			Bernie Worrell	9:15
	Mothership Reconnection (Daft Punk remix) (part of “Slam: 10 Years of Pressure” DJ-mix)			Scott Grooves	4:30
	Re-Enter Black Light (Entersection)			Bernie Worrell	6:26
	Sloppy Seconds			George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars feat. Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell	6:59
	Warriors Off to Woo			Bernie Worrell	4:19
	Woo Awakens, the Wizard Cometh			Bernie Worrell	11:00
	vocals
1993	Time Was (Events in the Elsewhere)			Bernie Worrell	7:21
1995	Country Mile			Pharoah Sanders	6:04
1995	Kumba			Pharoah Sanders	7:50
1995	Nozipho			Pharoah Sanders	9:42
1995	Ocean Song			Pharoah Sanders	8:49
1995	Our Roots (Began in Africa)			Pharoah Sanders	10:21
1995	Tomoki			Pharoah Sanders	6:26
	Hello / P-Funk Wants To Get Funked Up		background vocals	T.M. Stevens	2:20
	Kwela		background vocals	Jack Bruce	5:20
	Let Me Be		background vocals	Jack Bruce	4:45
	Make Love		background vocals	Jack Bruce	3:38
	No Surrender			Jack Bruce	4:25
	composed
	Mothership Reconnection			Scott Grooves featuring Parliament / Funkadelic
	instruments
1985	Album		organ	Public Image Ltd.
	Axis		keyboard	Jonas Hellborg
	Axis		keyboard	Jonas Hellborg
	Axis		keyboard	Jonas Hellborg
	Axis		keyboard	Jonas Hellborg
	Black Ivory Soul		organ	Angélique Kidjo
	Black Ivory Soul		Rhodes piano [Fender Rhodes]	Angélique Kidjo
	Boogaloo to the Beastie Boys		Rhodes piano	Reuben Wilson, Andrew Beals, LaFrae Olivia Sci, Doug Munro & Bernie Worrell
	Chocolate City		synthesizer	Parliament
	Chocolate City		keyboard	Parliament
	Dissident		keyboard	Deadline
	Dissident		keyboard	Deadline
	Fred Schneider		bass, clavinet, guest, keyboard, synthesizer and vocoder	Fred Schneider
	Fred Schneider & The Shake Society		bass, clavinet, guest, keyboard, synthesizer and vocoder	Fred Schneider
	Freedom: No Compromise		additional and keyboard	Little Steven
	Funkcronomic		keyboard	Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell & Karsh Kale
	Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome		keyboard and synthesizer	Parliament
	Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome		keyboard and synthesizer	Parliament
	Holy Terror		clavinet	The Last Poets
	Holy Terror		synthesizer	The Last Poets
	Holy Terror		organ	The Last Poets
	Holy Terror		piano	The Last Poets
	Middle Passage		organ	Ginger Baker
	Mothership Connection		keyboard and synthesizer	Parliament
	Mothership Connection		keyboard and synthesizer	Parliament
	Niels & The New York Street Percussionists		keyboard	Niels and the New York Street Percussionists
	One Nation Under a Groove		keyboard	Funkadelic
	One Nation Under a Groove		keyboard	Funkadelic
	One World Music		keyboard	Bill Laswell & Material feat. Bernie Worrell
	Rise Again		keyboard	Lee “Scratch” Perry
	Ritual Beating System		Hammond organ [Hammond B-3 organ]	Bahia Black
	Stop Making Sense		keyboard	Talking Heads
	Stop Making Sense (Target CD, made in Japan)		keyboard	Talking Heads
	Stop Making Sense		keyboard	Talking Heads
	Stop Making Sense		keyboard	Talking Heads
	Stop Making Sense		keyboard	Talking Heads
	Trippy Notes for Bass		keyboard and piano	Doug Wimbish
	Trippy Notes for Bass		keyboard and piano	Doug Wimbish
	Visions of Excess		guest and Hammond organ	The Golden Palominos
	instruments arranged
	Chocolate City		strings	Parliament
	Chocolate City		horn	Parliament
	Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome		wind instruments	Parliament
	Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome		wind instruments	Parliament
	Mothership Connection		wind instruments	Parliament
	Mothership Connection		wind instruments	Parliament
	produced
	Fred Schneider			Fred Schneider
	Fred Schneider & The Shake Society			Fred Schneider
	composed
	Black Rain
	Chamber Seven
	Dark Heat
	Do Something
	Famous
	Final Frontier
	Gangsta Story
	Method Exit Dub
	Method Plan One
	Mothership Connection (Star Child)
	Mothership Reconnection
	P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)
	Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk (Pay Attention-B3M)
	Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication
	Uncle Tom Artist
	Up for the Down Stroke
	Vital Juices
	dedicated works
	Doctors in the Shot
	wrote
	A Joyful Process
	A Whole Lot of BS
	America Eats Its Young
	Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)
	As In (I Love You)
	Balance
	Children of Productions
	Chocolate City
	Choui
	Cosmic Slop
	Dirty Mack
	Do That Stuff
	Dr. Funkenstein
	Early 2K	George Worrell
	Everybody Is Going to Make It This Time
	Everything Is on the One
	Fantasy Is Reality
	Flash Light
	Funky for You
	Gamin' on Ya
	Gangsta’s Fairytale 2
	Get on the Inside
	Groovallegiance
	Guerillas in tha Mist
	Heartz of Men
	Holly Wants to Go to California
	I Can Move You (If You Let Me)
	I Can’t Swim
	If It Don't Fit (Don't Force It)
	If You Got Funk, You Got Style
	Let Them Thangs Go
	Lunchmeataphobia (Think!…It Ain’t Illegal Yet!)
	Magic Hymie
	Martial Law
	Martial Law (Hey Man Smell My Finger)
	Mr. Wiggles
	Niggaz 4 Life
	Nothing to Lose
	Now I Gotta Wet ’cha
	Only Fear of Death
	Prelude
	Psychoticbumpschool
	Red Hot Mama
	Ride On
	Say Hi to the Bad Guy
	Sloppy Seconds
	Stoplight
	Take Your Dead Ass Home
	There Is Nothing Before Me but Thang
	This Is Your Life		additional
	Throw It Back	Bernard Worrell
	Together
	Uncle Jam
	Under the Influence of a Groove
	Wake Up
	Wars of Armageddon
	We Hurt Too
	What Comes Funky
	What's My Name? (Rock With the Hot 8)
	You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks
	You Hit the Nail on the Head

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