Bernie Worrell

6/27/16- The music world lost another icon this weekend. Funk keyboardist Bernie Worrell passed Friday after battling stage four cancer. He not only played with the legendary funk bands but toured with rock acts and more. Listen to the Tom Joyner Morning Show honor the career of Bernie Worrell.

Bernie Worrell, an influential keyboardist who forged his sound while playing with George Clinton’s Parliament and Funkadelic bands, passed last Friday after battling stage four cancer. Mr. Worrell not only played with the legendary funk bands but toured with rock acts and more. Worrell was born April 19, 1944 in Long Branch, New Jersey. A […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Bernie Worrell, funk’s “Wizard of Woo,” is amazed at the lineup of friends and admirers expected to turn out for his benefit concert: George Clinton and Nona Hendryx, Jonathan Demme and Bootsy Collins, Paul Shaffer and Living Colour. Even Meryl Streep and Rick Springfield, with whom Worrell worked on last year’s […]