Bernhard Reinke

About Bernhard Reinke

Bernhard Reinke is a jazz-, fusion- and rock guitarplayer from The Netherlands. He recorded several cd's as a bandleader and is busy to compose, arrange and pre-record songs for a new vocal project. Bernhard Reinke was born on the 20th october of 1952 as a Libra, ascendant Virgin. He started his musical live as a rockmusician. Bernhard loved Jimi Hendrix and formed his own trio.

In time more experimental elements sneaked into his style: the English symphonic music, free improvisation concepts and ethnic styles from around the world. He was strongly influenced by the jazzrock of the seventies. Bernhard started playing with a number of people in various pop- and jazzstyles. He made a record with the Zappa/Turtles-like duo Paul and Andre, made music for a modern ballet, produced punkgroups and made the record "Love Vendetta" with bluessinger Harry Muskee (Cuby and the Blizzards). With the band Phony and the Hardcore he played a lot and did "live" radio and television. They recorded the album "Phoney Hits". He also performed with Northern Bunch, in which he played jazz- and funkmusic as well as jazzrock..

Bernhard was an autodidact untill 1981, when he decided to develop his jazzguitarstyle further more by studïng with Wim Overgaauw at the Hilversum Conservatory. He graduated in 1986. Since 1981 he works as a bandleader who comp