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The Stanley Clarke Band - Cd Release at Blue Note New York

Courtesy of Blue Note New York | Posted on October 25, 2016

Where

Blue Note New York
131 West Third Street
New York, NY
Map
212-475-8592

When

Fri, April 7, 2017
10:30 pm

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Musicians

The Stanley Clarke Band
band / ensemble / orchestra

About

THE STANLEY CLARKE BAND - CD RELEASE

Bassist Stanley Clarke was barely out of his teens when he exploded into the jazz world in 1971. Fresh out of the Philadelphia Academy of Music, he arrived in New York City and immediately landed jobs with famous bandleaders such as Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Joe Henderson, Pharaoh Saunders, Gil Evans, Stan Getz and a budding young pianist-composer named Chick Corea.



All of these musicians immediately recognized Clarke's ferocious dexterity and complete musicality on the acoustic bass. Not only was he an expert at crafting bass lines and functioning as a timekeeper - in keeping with his instrument's traditional role - but the young prodigy also possessed a sense of lyricism and melody distilled from his bass heroes Charles Mingus, Scott LaFaro and others, as well as non-bass players like John Coltrane. Clarke envisioned the bass as a viable, melodic solo instrument positioned at the front of the stage rather than in a background role, and he was uniquely qualified to take it there. ...

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