NOTE: These are all Windows Media Files. If you need a different format, such as Quicktime or MP3, just let me know... I'll even mail you a CD if you'd prefer.

• Club Dates (3:03) -- Five pop music clips from old live recordings of road bands in the late 70s -- mostly made with portable cassette recorders. Consequently, they're not great quality, but they show some pop rhythm styles. Yeah, I know they're dated, but hey... that was the last time I played with this kind of group. [Bernett allows small amount of good-humored belligerence to creep into his voice.]
  
  For what it's worth, in addition to playing drums on the above examples, I'm also singing lead on the second and third songs (Down to the Night Club and I Believe in Music).
  
  
• Lounge Show Band (2:05) -- Three excerpts of one of those late 70s show bands recorded under studio conditions.
  
  
• Small Group Jazz (1:44) -- Three excerpts from a studio recording of a very nice jazz sextet in Chicago. Actually, these clips are all from one industrial show production... hence the recognizable theme played in different styles on a couple of the clips.
  
  
• Big Band - Jazz (2:07) -- Three excerpts from a live concert with Rich Matteson's Clinic Band. (This tape was just barely saved from destruction, please pardon the hiss.)
  
  
• Big Band - Dance (2:13) -- Four excerpts from studio recordings with Jack Morgan and the Russ Morgan Orchestra, American Cavalcade of Big Bands, Las Vegas.
  
  
• Celebrity Theater (1:26) -- A short excerpt from a live medley with the Lettermen. (Recorded on a portable cassette from the pit headphone feed... hence the heavy vocal mix.)
  
  
• Studio Work (2:23) -- Six clips from various commercial studio dates... you may even recognize some of them.
  
  
• The Obligatory Drum Solo (2:47) -- First of all, you need to know that I hate drum solos. I think they're boring for everyone, except possibly the drummer. Personally, I'd rather keep drum solos limited to "swapping fours" on a jazz tune or an occasional break at the end of a rock song. My favorite "solo" is a light brush thing -- remember Neal Hefti's "Cute"? With that being said however, there are still some people (mostly drummers) who want to know how fast you can play. Consequently, here are a few excerpts from one of those "the rest of the band leaves the stage for ten minutes" solos from my past.
  
  
• Raleigh Jazz Orchestra - VIDEO CLIPS -- Three full-length Windows Media video clips from a recent concert with the Raleigh Jazz Orchestra big band. The first one features the big band, along with the entire Raleigh Symphony Orchestra, as well as Durham jazz vocalist, Susan Reeves. The second and third clips are RJO Big Band instrumentals.
  

1. The Song Is You
2. Cherokee
3. LaFiesta
   
   

(For more examples of both singing and playing, please see the "Hear the Band" page at www.SwingStreetBand.com)