Search - Artist/Band: Stanley Clarke

• Name: Stanley Clarke
• Birthday: 06/30/1951
• Birth Place: Philadelphia, PA
• Decades Active: 1970,1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Fusion, Jazz-Funk, Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Funk
• Moods: Energetic, Rollicking, Street-Smart, Elegant, Freewheeling, Playful, Sophisticated, Stylish

Title	Release
Jazz in the Garden WA	05/12/2009
Original Album Classics WA	10/29/2007
The Toys of Men WA	10/16/2007
Bass Days	01/31/2006
Standards WA	2006
Trios: East River Drive/Schooldays/Live at the Greek WA	12/14/2004
Guitar & Bass	11/30/2004
Jazz Standards WA	06/01/2004
Smooth Jazz WA	06/01/2004
To the Bass WA	09/22/2003
1, 2, To the Bass WA	03/25/2003
Portrait Stanley Clarke WA	11/07/2000
Hot Fun: Best	1999
This Is Jazz, Vol. 41	04/28/1998
The Bass-ic Collection	10/28/1997
At the Movies WA	08/08/1995
Rite of Strings WA	04/1995
East River Drive	08/24/1993
Collection	07/01/1992
3	1990
If This Bass Could Only Talk WA	1988
Hideaway WA	1986
Find Out! WA	1985
Time Exposure WA	1984
The Clarke/Duke Project, Vol. 2 WA	1983
Griffith Park Collection WA	1982
Let Me Know You WA	1982
The Clarke/Duke Project, Vol. 1 WA	1981
Rocks, Pebbles and Sand WA	1980
I Wanna Play for You WA	1979
Modern Man WA	1978
School Days WA	06/1976
Journey to Love WA	1975
Stanley Clarke WA	1974
Children of Forever WA	1973

A brilliant player on both acoustic and electric basses, Stanley Clarke has spent much of his career outside of jazz, although he has the ability to play jazz with the very best. He played accordion as a youth, switching to violin and cello before settling on bass. He worked with r&b and rock bands in high school, but after moving to New York, he worked with Pharoah Sanders in the early '70s. Other early gigs were with Gil Evans, Mel Lewis, Horace Silver, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, and Art Blakey; everyone was impressed by his talents. However, Clarke really hit the big time when he started teaming up with Chick Corea in Return to Forever. When the group became a rock-oriented fusion quartet, Clarke mostly emphasized electric bass and became an influential force, preceding Jaco Pastorius. But, starting with his School Days album (1976), and continuing through his funk group with George Duke (The Clarke/Duke Project), up to his projects writing movie scores, Stanley Clarke largely moved beyond the jazz world into commercial music; his 1988 Portrait album If This Bass Could Only Talk, and his 1995 collaboration with Jean Luc Ponty and Al DiMeola on the acoustic The Rite of Strings, are two of his few jazz recordings since the '70s. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide