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Article: Interview

A Fireside Chat With Mike Clark

by AAJ Staff
March 7, 2003

When I was a kid, most my age were tuning in to watch Tootie and Blair on The Facts of Life or Gary Coleman say “Whatcha talkin' bout Willis." I would run home from school to catch What's Happening. Not only was the theme song funky, but Rerun (the best character ever on TV) was a ...

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Article: Album Review

Mike Clark: Summertime

Read "Summertime" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
March 3, 2003

Pianist Billy Childs and drummer Mike Clark make a great rhythm team. Their modern mainstream journey through new originals and familiar favorites swings with a surging intensity that’s stirred gently – not shaken. It’s your daddy’s music in a new picture frame. ”Summertime,” a personal favorite, is treated to a harmonic makeover. Using ...

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Actual Proof

By Mike Clark

Label: Platform Recordings
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1.Stingers 2.The Grinder 3.Aristide 4.the Viper 5.Waiting Around 6.Stuff 7.Attack Of The 40 ft. woman 8.Cops And Robbers 9.59th Street Station 10.Bacon Phat 11.The Famous Door

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Mike Clark: Actual Proof

by Glenn Astarita
January 1, 2002

During his work with pianist, Herbie Hancock’s 70’s super- funk/fusion band “The Headhunters,” Mike Clark quickly acquired a reputation for his distinctly personal and altogether innovative slant on the art of funk drumming. His over-the-top and somewhat slithery approach to a funk groove proved to be a vital component to a group steered by Hancock’s equally ...

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Conjunction

By Mike Clark

Label: Bucky Ball Music
Released: 2001
Track listing: Faster Than Light; Metamorphic; East West; Conjunction; Long Shot; Draconian Devonian; Gus; Horta-Culture; Light Step; The Unknown Shuffle.

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Article: Album Review

Mike Clark/Paul Jackson/Marc Wagnon: Conjunction

Read "Conjunction" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 2001

As jazz/rock fusions go, Conjunction is something special: it completely refuses to fit into either category. The arrangements are too tight and the improvisation is too sophisticated to label this disc as rock, but the grooves are so backbeat-driven that one could never call it jazz. (Make a special exception for “The Unknown Shuffle," which is ...

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Actual Proof

By Mike Clark

Label: Platform Recordings
Released: 2000
Track listing: Stingers; The Grinder; Aristide; The Viper; Waiting Around; Stuff; Attack of the 40ft Woman; Cops & Robbers; 59th Street Station; Bacon Phat; The Famous Door.

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Mike Clark: Actual Proof

by Jim Santella
October 1, 2000

Using original compositions that serve as mainstream jazz anthems, drummer Mike Clark has created a program around his taste for rhythmic drive and small band creativity. Fusion, funk and ballads sit under the umbrella of Clark’s design; however, they’re tempered with tradition. Fluid trumpet and tenor saxophone solos grace “The Viper" accompanied by just the acoustic ...

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Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits

By Vince Guaraldi

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 1998
Track listing: \Joe Cool; Surfin' Snoopy' Heartburn Waltz; Track Meet; Camptown Races; Oh, Good Grief (vocal); Charlie Brown Theme; Schroeder; Charlie's Blues; Great Pumpkin Waltz; Thanksgiving Theme; Linus and Lucy; Christmas Time Is Here (vocal); Christmas Time Is Here (instrumental).

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Blues And The Abstract Truth

By Suzanne Pittson

Label: Vineland
Released: 1996
Track listing: Butch and Butch; My Ship; You and the Night and the Music; In Love in Vain; Blues and the Abstract Truth; Out of Nowhere; The Meaning of the Blues; Love For Sale; Somewhere in Tokyo; Ginger Bread Boy.