Stanley Clarke speaks in cool measured tones. That is until you suggest that some find the guitar a sexier instrument than his beloved bass, an instrument Clarke revolutionized with hit instrumental ...

Stanley Clarke’s prolific output can take you back to medieval times, soothe you with a gentle bow of the bass, or launch you into an interplanetary future. His playing holds a reckless abandon, ...

A grand piano, three electric keyboards and accompanying coils of cords piled like snakes at the musicians' feet. Yes, smells like jazz fusion in here. Three basses, one acoustic, two electric. Yes, ...

Tracks: Vulcan Princess; Yesterday Princess; Lopsy Lu; Power; Spanish Phases for Strings and Brass; Life Suite—Part 1; Life Suite—Part 2; Life Suite—Part 3; Life Suite—Part 4. Personnel: Stanley ...

Jazz bassist Stanley Clarke sits at the center of the room, six young musicians focused on him as they practice at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center on a recent afternoon. “So the ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

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When Stanley Calrke was only 25, the word "legend" was already being used to describe him. Now, he's a king of the acoustic and electric jazz worlds, having won every major award available to a bass ...

Who’s having the best year in the jazz music game? My vote goes to Stanley Clarke. The year began with him still riding high on the commercial and critical success of the late-2007 release “The Toys ...

Stanley Clarke's influence continues to be felt long past his 1970s glory days as a member of pianist Chick Corea's flagship fusion group Return to Forever and as a solo artist whose School Days (Epic ...

Jazz Night profiles bassist, composer, producer, arranger and 2022 NEA Jazz Master Stanley Clarke. Hear stories from his collaborators and travel... Stanley Clarke – The Virtuoso Bass Doubler is now ...