Jazz Articles about Stanley Clarke

The Mothership Returns

by John Kelman
June 19, 2012

When keyboardist Chick Corea announced--following a successful world tour of his reunited 1970s-era fusion juggernaut Return to Forever, which, featuring guitarist Al Di Meola, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White, included a high octane 2008 performance that was one of the best-attended in the Ottawa International Jazz Festival's three-decade history--that he'd be reuniting the earlier incarnation of the group responsible for Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (Polydor, 1973), there was plenty of buzz. He ultimately became the ...

Stanley Clarke: The Complete 1970s Epic Albums Collection

by John Kelman
February 29, 2012

Legacy Recordings' recent spate of Complete Albums Collection box sets have righted a whole slew of wrongs by bringing long out-of-print recordings back in a reasonably priced and tidily collected series. They may be relatively light on production values--simple clamshell-style boxes, mini-LP cardboard sleeves, and booklets whose information, beyond detailed track and personnel listings, is largely dependent upon how much the artist has to say, if anything at all--but the opportunity to collect an entire discography from a specific period ...

Stanley Clarke: Path Maker

by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
February 22, 2011

Innovation is a cherished quality in any art form and, truth be told, some follow greatness while others create the patterns that make that same greatness possible. There are teachers, and then, there are students. In jazz, musicians skilled in all sorts of instruments tend to look at their older peers in amazement, and challenges within their very souls are triggered and fed by an almost supernatural need to be unique; for only those who manage to be unique will ...

Stanley Clarke: The Stanley Clarke Band

by Jeff Winbush
July 8, 2010

Stanley ClarkeThe Stanley Clarke BandHeads Up International2010 Stanley Clarke is still playing the bass the way he wants to, still pulling sounds out of his assortment of electric, acoustic and Alembic basses like nobody else, and still slapping, plucking and thumbing his way through contemporary, fusion jazz, rock, funk and whatever else he puts his mind to.Clarke honed his craft working with pianist Horace Silver, saxophonists Gato Barbieri and Pharoah ...

Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Lenny White: Forever Fine in Dusseldorf

by Phillip Woolever
November 24, 2009

Corea, Clarke, and White Tonhalle Dusseldorf, Germany November 4, 2009 An acoustic visit by these long journeying, top tier collaborators brought fresh perspective to their work, and thus to both the ups and downs of a widely touted gig. Happily, for the relatively small crowd, there were far more ups than downs. While most reviews have been overwhelmingly positive, not everything has been roses for CCW since their guest and star-studded kickoff ...

Stanley Clarke Trio: Live at Catalina's

by Carl L. Hager
November 1, 2009

Stanley Clarke TrioCatalina Bar and GrillHollywood, CAOctober 7, 2009

When bassist Stanley Clarke gathered drummer Lenny White and piano phenom Hiromi together last December to do his first-ever trio album, Jazz In The Garden (Telarc, 2009), no one knew quite what to expect.

Hiromi was clearly a new kid on the block, at least in this straight-ahead context. Clarke and White were both veterans who had been playing these notes since ...

Stanley Clarke Trio at The Blue Note

by Ernest Barteldes
October 31, 2009

Stanley Clarke Trio Blue Note Jazz Club New York Oct. 13, 2009

Playing before a sold-out crowd on the first of their two-night engagement at New York's Blue Note Jazz Club, the Stanley Clarke Trio got things going with “Three Wrong Notes," a straight-ahead ragtime-inspired tune. The tune at first featured Hiromi Uehara, who attacked the keys of her piano with gusto, often leaping from her bench while smiling with her eyes ...