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Stanley Clarke Band at The Carver
by Katchie Cartwright
Stanley Clarke The Carver Community Cultural Center / Jo Long Theatre The New Season 2025/26 San Antonio, TX October 11, 2025 A capacity crowd at The Carver's Jo Long Theatre celebrated the opening of San Antonio's 2025 season on October 11 with a high-spirited set from Stanley Clarke and his ensemble. The playbill promised “incredible, soulful, virtuosic" music, which the renowned bassist and his youthful ensemble delivered. Despite the intricate arrangements and ...
Continue ReadingChristian McBride, Caelan Cardello, Nicole Zuraitis and Stanley Clarke
by Joe Dimino
In honor of the return of the Kansas City Jazz & Blues Fest after a 20+ year hiatus, we begin with a headliner of that October 4, 2025 day of music gems with the legendary Stanley Clarke with music off his 1993 album East River Dance. From there, we hop right into an Italian musician with deep KC roots in Roberto Magris with music off his new 2025 album Lovely Days. From there, we get into an eclectic mix of ...
Continue ReadingStanley Clarke-Hiromi Duo at SFJAZZ
by Roy Strassman
Stanley Clarke-Hiromi Duo SFJAZZ CenterSan Francisco, CA September 6, 2024 Oh, the expectation for such an incredible bill--two musical giants--consummate bassist Stanley Clarke and pianist extraordinaire Hiromi (Uehara). It is one thing to hear them together on YouTube. It is quite another to catch them live, but there they were: performing live and together at SFJAZZ. Clad in a white shirt, black vest, and matching black pants, Clarke appeared whimsically professorial in bearing, ...
Continue ReadingM. E. B.: That You Not Dare To Forget
by Doug Collette
With all due respect to Lettuce's A Tribute to Miles Davis--Witches Stew (Self Produced, 2017) and the all-star ensemble dubbed Bitches Brew Revisited, M.E.B. (formerly known as Miles Electric Band) is an inordinately creative homage to Miles Davis. And given the continually experimental path The “Man With The Horn" chose to follow throughout his career, it is no doubt one of which he would approve. That You Not Dare To Forget is a slightly less than half-hour audio ...
Continue ReadingAl Di Meola / Jean-Luc Ponty / Stanley Clarke: Rite Of Strings Live at Montreux 1994
by Doug Collette
By the time Al Di Meola, Jean-Luc Ponty and Stanley Clarke were recorded in 1994 at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival—remarkably, in their first time ever playing together in public—each had established a solid reputation in the jazz-fusion field and beyond. Accordingly, it might be seen as destiny that the three would work together in some context and indeed they did on both stage and studio (an album from which came out the year following their appearance in Switzerland).
Continue ReadingCharles Mingus & Joni Mitchell: Jivin' with Joni: The Lost Recordings 1978-1979
by Mike Jurkovic
Looks like a bumper month of archival releases awaits the ever ready Mingus aficionado. First, in late April, 2022, Resonance Records unleashes The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott's. Just in time for Record Store Day (April 23) Candid Records releases a sweetly remastered Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus. Now, in a joint announcement from Jazz Workshop Inc. and Rhino Records to celebrate the big man's centennial (April 22) comes Jivin' with Joni: The Lost Recordings, 1978-1979. Recorded just ...
Continue ReadingBruce Bishop: A Dream Set Free
by Doug Collette
Guitarist Bruce Bishop's A Dream Set Free carries a sizable impact, albeit one so understated that it is difficult to gauge how out of proportion it is in relation to its playing time of slightly over thirty-minutes. But this album also turns out to be a remarkably seamless piece of work, even with the presence of two distinct rhythm sections. No doubt producer Ben Harper had much to do with forging the continuity of these nine tracks (all composed by ...
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