Stanley Clarke

Biography

Its beginnings

After having been graduate of the music school of Philadelphia, it leaves to New York in 1971 and starts to play with personalities of the world of the music such Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Gato Barbieri, Joe Henderson, Pharoah Sanders, Gil Evans and Stan Getz.

Its career

It creates a group of Jazz fusion, Return to Forever, with the pianist Chick Corea, with whom it will leave several albums. At the same period, it starts to make albums solo.

It is known to have a very particular sound, due to the fact that it plays on the low ones of mark Alembic. It democratized the technique of the Slap, created originally by Larry Graham, by applying it to the Jazz.

In 1991, Stanley Clarke receives a BMI Film & TV Awards for the piece Black one Black crime in the film Boyz NR the Hood .

Discography

1972 : Children off Forever (One Way)
1974: Stanley Clarke (Epic)
1975: Journey to Love (Epic)
1976: School Days (Epic)
1977: Live (1976-1977)
1977: I Wanna Play for You (Epic)
1978: Modern Man (Nemperor)
1980: Fuses One (IMS)
1980: Rock'n'rolls, Pebbles and Sand (Epic)
1981: The Clarke/Duke Project, vol. 1 (Epic)
1982: Let Me Know You (Columbia)
1983: The Clarke/Duke Project, vol. 2 (Columbia)
1984: Time Exposure (Epic)
1985: Find Out! (Epic)
1986: Hideaway (Epic)
1988: Project (CBS)
1988: Yew Low This Could Only Talk (Portrait)
1989: 3 (Epic)
1991: Boyz NR the Hood (ost)
1992: Passenger 57 (Epic)
1993: East To rivet Drive (Epic)
1993: Live At the Greek (Epic)
1994: Live in Montreux (Door Jazz)
1995: Rite off Strings (Merry Saber)
1995: At the Movies (Epic Soundtrax)
2005: the Fever of the roller (ost)
2007: The Toys off Men

External bond

Official site

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