Stanley Clarke (born June 30, 1951) is an American jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and electric bass as well as for his numerous film and television scores. He is best known for his work with the fusion band Return to Forever, and his role as a bandleader in several trios and ensembles. During the 1970s, Clarke joined the jazz fusion group Return to Forever, led by pianist and synth player Chick Corea. The group released several albums that achieved both mainstream popularity and critical acclaim. In 1981, Clarke and George Duke formed the Clarke/Duke Project. Their song "Sweet Baby" was a Top 20 hit. In 2006 Clarke reunited with George Duke and toured with him for the first time in fifteen years.
Stanley Clarke was also a member of The New Barbarians, a band Ronnie Wood (The Rolling Stones) had assembled in 1979 to play gigs in the US, Canada and UK. Other band members included Keith Richards, Ziggy Modeliste (The Meters), Ian McLagan and Bobby Keys. This version of the New Barbarians played their final concert in the Knebworth Festival, 1979. To date three official live recordings have been released of the New Barbarians 1979 tour. These all include Stanley Clarke as bass player.
In the late 1980s, Clarke and drummer Stewart Copeland, of the rock band The Police, formed Animal Logic with singer-songwriter Deborah Holland. In 2005 Clarke toured as Trio! with Béla Fleck and Jean-Luc Ponty. The U.S. and European tour was nominated for a 2006 Jammy Award in the category of "Tour of the Year." He has also played with Jeff Beck, Ron Wood, Larry Carlton, Billy Cobham and Al Di Meola.
In 2009 he released Jazz in the Garden, featuring the Stanley Clarke Trio with pianist Hiromi Uehara and drummer Lenny White. The following year he released the Stanley Clarke Band, with Ruslan Sirota on keyboards and Ronald Bruner, Jr. on drums; the album also features Hiromi on piano.
Clarke started his solo career in the early 1970s and released a number of albums under his own name. His best known solo album is School Days (1976), which, along with Jaco Pastorius's self-titled debut, is one of the most influential solo bass recordings in fusion history. His albums Stanley Clarke (1974) and Journey to Love (1975) are also notable.
Clarke released The Toys of Men in 2007. This was his first release in five years, on October 17, 2007. The first week of release it went to No. 2 on the Contemporary Jazz Chart of Billboard magazine. The album examines the subject of war, and it includes performances by Esperanza Spalding, Ruslan Sirota, Paulinho da Costa and Mads Tolling.
Personnel:
- Stanley Clarke - bass fiddle, electric bass (03), arranger (01)
- Chick Corea - electric piano (01-03,05), clavinette (01,03), piano (04), arranger (02-05), producer
- Pat Martino - electric guitar, 12-string guitar (03)
- Lenny White - drums, tambourine (03)
- Arthur Webb - flute
- Andy Bey - vocals (01,02,04,05)
- Dee Dee Bridgewater - female vocals (01,02,05)
Personnel:
- Stanley Clarke - electric & acoustic bass, organ, piccolo bass with Maestro Synthesizer on "Concerto For Jazz/Rock Orchestra," hand bells, tubular bells, gong, vocals
- Jeff Beck - electric guitar on "Hello Jeff" and guitar solo on "Journey to Love"
- Lenny White - drums on "Hello Jeff"
- Chick Corea - acoustic piano on "Song to John"
- Mahavishnu John McLaughlin - acoustic guitar on "Song to John"
- George Duke - mini-moog, Arp Odyssey, organ, clavinet, acoustic piano, electric piano, bells, vocals
- Steve Gadd - drums, percussion
- David Sancious - electric guitar, 12-string guitar
Brass section:
- Jon Faddis, Lewis M. Soloff, David Taylor, Peter Gordon, Allen Rubin, Tom "Bones" Malone, John Clark, Earl Chapin, Wilmer Wise
Personnel:
- Stanley Clarke – vocals (01,06), electric bass guitar (01,03,05,06), handbells (01), acoustic piano (02,03), piccolo bass guitar (02,03,06), humming (03), acoustic bass (04,06), gong (06), chimes (06), arranger, conductor, producer
- David Sancious – all keyboards (01), Minimoog synthesizer (02,03), organ (03), electric guitar (05)
- Raymond Gomez – electric guitar (01,03,05), rhythm guitar (03)
- Gerry Brown – drums (01,03), handbells (01) and "The Dancer"
- Steve Gadd – drums (02,05)
- Milt Holland – percussion (03), conga (04), triangle (04)
- John McLaughlin – acoustic guitar (04)
- George Duke – all keyboards (06)
- Billy Cobham – drums (06), Moog 1500 (06)
- Icarus Johnson – electric guitar (06), acoustic guitar (06)
- David Campbell, Dennis Karmazyn, Lya Stern, Thomas Buffum, Janice Adele Gower, Marcia Van Dyke, Karen Jones, Robert Dubow, Ronald Strauss, Rollice Dale, Gordon Marron, John Wittenberg, Marilyn Baker - strings
- Jack Nimitz, Buddy Childers, Lew McCreary, Dalton Smith, Robert Findley, Gary Grant, George Bohanon, William Peterson, Stuart Blumberg, Albert Aarons - brass
- Ken Scott – producer, engineer
Personnel:
- Stanley Clarke – Alembic bass (01-04,06,07,09,11,12), acoustic bass (01,09,12), narrator (01), piccolo bass (02,04,09), acoustic piano (02,09), vocals (02,06,07,09), bass (05,08,10), strings arranger and conductor (06), arranger, producer
- Dee Dee Bridgewater - vocals (01,07,12)
- Gerry Brown – drums & percussion (01,03,06,07,12)
- Steve Gadd - cymbal (01,12)
- Raymond Gomez – guitar (01,03,06,07,12)
- Alfie Williams - soprano saxophone (01,03,06,07,12), baritone saxophone (01,12), flute (06)
- Bob Malach - tenor saxophone (01,03,06,07,12), flute (06)
- Dale Devoe - trombone (01,03,06,07,12)
- Al Harrison - trumpet (01,03,07,12), flugelhorn (06)
- James Tinsley - piccolo trumpet (01-03,07,12), flugelhorn (06)
- Mike Garson - Oberheim synthesizer (01,03,07,12), Moog synthesizer (01,03,07,12), organ (01,12), acoustic piano (04,06)
- Jeff Porcaro – drums (02,04,09), percussion (02)
- Jeff "Skunk" Baxter - electric guitar (02), pedal steel guitar (02), guitar synthesizer (02)
- Julia Waters, Maxine Waters - vocals (03,04)
- Harry Shlutz, Jan Kelley, Niles Oliver, Ron Cooper - cello (06,09)
- Barbara Thomason, Leonard Selic, Mark Kovacs, Rollice Dale - viola (06,09)
- Alice Sachs, Connie Kupka, Cynthia Kovaks, Debra Price, Frank Foster, Joseph Shoenbrun, Kenneth Yerke, Marcia Van Dyke, Ron Clark, Sandy Seymour, Steve Scharf - violin (06,09)
- Charles Veal Jr. - violin (06,09), concertmaster (06,09), contractor (06,09)
- Jeff Beck – guitar (11)
- Carmine Appice - drums (11), stereo wah-wah bass (11)
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