Jazz Articles about Stanley Clarke

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 ...

Stanley Clarke: Jazz in the Garden

by Terrell Kent Holmes
October 13, 2009

Bassist Stanley Clarke has explored many musical genres throughout his storied career, crossing and re-crossing musical boundaries to collaborate with everyone from Art Blakey and Joe Henderson to Chick Corea and Al Di Meola. So it's surprising that Jazz in the Garden is his maiden voyage as the leader of an acoustic band. Clarke's stylistic diversity is on display throughout this album. He uses his famous fret slapping technique during his solo on “Paradigm Shift." Pianist Hiromi ...

Stanley Clarke Trio: Jazz in the Garden

by Carl L. Hager
August 13, 2009

Stanley Clarke Trio Jazz In The Garden Heads Up International 2009

In the mid-1970s when Stanley Clarke rose to prominence playing electric bass in the powerhouse band Return To Forever, it had been his beautiful touch on acoustic bass that originally attracted the notice of the band's founder, keyboard player Chick Corea. The rock star flash and approbation that accompanied his ensuing solo efforts and collaborations with everyone from keyboard player George ...

Stanley Clarke: Jazz in the Garden

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 27, 2009

In questo album pieno di stimoli e spunti di riflessione troviamo tre musicisti, solitamente associati con un jazz elettrico tendente alla fusion, capaci di mettere assieme i loro enormi talenti per un incontro acustico che alterna sapientemente brani originali con standard jazzistici ("Take the Coltrane" e “Solar" ci sembrano in particolare evidenza) e non (la conclusiva rilettura di “Under the Bridge," tratta dal repertorio dei Red Hot Chili Peppers). Una delle componenti della buona riuscita di questo progetto risiede certamente ...

The Stanley Clarke Trio: Jazz In the Garden

by Jeff Winbush
May 25, 2009

Is there a more prodigiously talented, but more annoyingly inconsistent artist than Stanley Clarke? A trip through the Clarke catalog reveals some brilliant masterpieces, many that are merely okay and a few that are bona fide turkeys. Doing things with an electric bass that no one else can, it's precisely because he is so good that he has to keep restlessly experimenting to prevent becoming bored.

Rather than being bored on Jazz in the Garden, Clarke is at the top ...

The Stanley Clarke Trio: Jazz in the Garden

by Woodrow Wilkins
May 5, 2009

How do you make one jazz trio different from so many others? Have the diverse stylings of Stanley Clarke on bass, the experience of Lenny White on drums and the adventurous spirit of Hiromi on piano. The result is the Stanley Clarke Trio. Each member of this ensemble is a leader in his or her own right. Collectively, their collaborations have included such artists as Chick Corea, Taj Mahal, Maynard Ferguson and George Duke. Clarke also is ...