Stanley Clarke
Bassist Stanley Clarke & keyboardist George Duke 2006
Background information
Birth name	Stanley Clarke
Born	June 30, 1951 (1951-06-30) (age 57) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Genre(s)	Jazz, Jazz fusion, Funk, rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, Songwriter
Instrument(s)	Bass, Double bass
Associated acts	Return to Forever, Chick Corea, Jeff Beck, Clarke/Dule Project
Notable instrument(s)
Various Alembic model basses

Stanley Clarke (born 30 June 1951) is an American musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and bass guitar as well as his numerous film and television scores. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (1,024 × 768 pixels, file size: 475 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The original description page is/was here. ... George Duke (born 12 January 1946 in San Rafael, California) is a piano and synthesizer pioneer, making a name for himself with the album Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio. ... is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ... Jazz fusion or jazz rock is a musical genre that merges jazz with elements of other styles of music, particularly funk, rock, R&B, ska, electronic, and world music, but also pop, classical, and folk music, or sometimes even metal, reggae, country, hip hop, etc. ... For other uses, including related musical genres, see Funk (disambiguation). ... This article is about the genre. ... For the popular-music magazine, see Musician (magazine). ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition (chords) or melody to songs, or both. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making music. ... A sunburst-colored Fender Precision Bass The electric bass guitar (or electric bass[1][2]; pronounced , as in base) is a bass stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick. ... Side and front views of a modern double bass with a French bow. ... For the album, see Return to Forever (album). ... Armando Anthony Chick Corea (born June 12, 1941) is a multiple Grammy Award winning American jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer. ... Geoffrey Arnold (Jeff) Beck (born June 24, 1944 to Arnold and Ethel Beck in Wallington, Greater London) is an English rock guitarist. ... Alembic Dragons Breath Custom Bass Guitar Alembic was founded in 1969 and is a manufacturer of high-end electric basses, guitars and preamps. ... is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Side and front views of a modern double bass with a French bow. ... A sunburst-colored Fender Precision Bass The electric bass guitar (or electric bass[1][2]; pronounced , as in base) is a bass stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick. ... This article is about motion pictures. ...

Early life and education

Clarke was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was introduced to the bass as a schoolboy "by accident", when he arrived late on the day instruments were distributed to students and acoustic bass was one of the few remaining selections. ^[1] Having graduated from the Philadelphia Academy of Music, he moved to New York City in 1971 and began working with famous bandleaders and musicians including Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Gato Barbieri, Joe Henderson, Chick Corea, Pharoah Sanders, Gil Evans and Stan Getz. Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... The University of the Arts (UArts) is one of the nation’s oldest universities dedicated to the arts. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver, born on September 2, 1928 in Norwalk, Connecticut) is a famous jazz pianist and composer born to a Cape Verdean father (of mixed Portuguese-black descent) and a mother of Irish and African descent. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Dexter Gordon (February 27, 1923–April 25, 1990) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, and an Academy Award-nominated actor. ... Leandro Barbieri (born on November 28, 1934 in Rosario, Santa Fe Province) better known as El Gato Barbieri (Spanish for Barbieri the Cat) is an Argentine jazz tenor saxophonist and composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and from his latin jazz recordings in... Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 - June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. ... Armando Anthony Chick Corea (born June 12, 1941) is a multiple Grammy Award winning American jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer. ... Reggie Workman, Pharoah Sanders, and Idris Muhammad, c. ... Gil Evans (13 May 1912 in Toronto Canada – 20 March 1988 in Cuernavaca, Mexico) was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States. ... Stanley Gayetzky (February 2, 1927 in Philadelphia – June 6, 1991 in Malibu, California), usually known by his stage name Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophone player. ...

Return to Forever

During this period he joined the jazz fusion group Return to Forever led by pianist Chick Corea. The group became one of the most important fusion groups and released several successful and musically highly varied albums. Clarke also started his solo career in the early 1970s and released a number of albums under his own name. His most famous album is School Days (1976), which, along with Jaco Pastorius's self-titled debut, is held up as one of the greatest bass albums in the history of jazz.^{[citation needed]} His albums Stanley Clarke (1974) and Journey to Love (1975) are also notable. Jazz fusion or jazz rock is a musical genre that merges jazz with elements of other styles of music, particularly funk, rock, R&B, ska, electronic, and world music, but also pop, classical, and folk music, or sometimes even metal, reggae, country, hip hop, etc. ... For the album, see Return to Forever (album). ... Track listing School Days – 7:51 Quiet Afternoon – 5:09 The Dancer – 5:27 Desert Song – 6:56 Hot Fun – 2:55 Life Is Just A Game – 9:00 Personnel Al Aarons – Bass, Brass Marilyn Baker – Strings Jeff Beck – Guitar Stewart Blumberg – Bass, Brass George Bohannon – Bass, Brass George Bohanon... John Francis Anthony Jaco Pastorius III (December 1, 1951 – September 21, 1987) was an American jazz musician and composer widely acknowledged for his virtuosity of the fretless bass,[1][2] as well as his command of varied musical styles. ...

Film and television

From the small screen scores for ABC's short-lived series A Man Called Hawk and an Emmy nominated score for Pee-wee's Playhouse Clarke moved on to the silver screen as composer, orchestrator, conductor and performer of scores for such films as: Boyz N the Hood, the biopic of Tina Turner What's Love Got to Do with It, Passenger 57, Higher Learning, Poetic Justice, Panther, The Five Heartbeats, Book of Love, Little Big League, and Romeo Must Die. He also scored the Luc Besson produced/co-written actioner, The Transporter, starring Jason Statham and a Michael Jackson video release directed by John Singleton entitled Remember the Time. Currently his scoring may be heard on the Showtime Network program Soul Food. The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American television network. ... A Man Called Hawk is a prime time television series that ran on the ABC television network between January 1989 and May 1989. ... Pee-wees Playhouse is a childrens television program starring Pee-Wee Herman. ... This article is about the song by rapper Eazy-E. For 1991 film, see Boyz n the Hood. ... A biographical film or biopic is a film about a particular person or group of people, based on events that actually happened. ... Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock) November 26, 1939) is an 11 time Grammy Award-winning (sharing three), American Singer, Dancer, Record Producer, Executive Producer, Film Producer, Actress, Writer, Performer, Songwriter, Author and occasional Painter whose career has spanned from 1956 to present. ... For other uses, see Whats Love Got to Do with It?. Whats Love Got to Do with It is a 1993 biographical film which tells the life story of Tina Turner. ... Passenger 57 is a 1992 action film starring Wesley Snipes and Bruce Payne. ... For other uses, see Higher Learning (disambiguation). ... Poetic Justice is a 1993 drama/romance film starring Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Regina King and Joe Torry. ... Panther is a 1995 film dramatizing the story of The Black Panther Party of Self-Defense. ... The Five Heartbeats is a feature film directed by Robert Townsend, who also stars in the film with Michael Wright, Leon Robinson, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells, Harold Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers, and Diahann Carroll. ... Book of Love is a 1990 film directed by Robert Shaye. ... Little Big League  is a 1994 film about an 11-year-old (later turns 12) who suddenly becomes the owner and then manager of the Minnesota Twins baseball team. ... Romeo Must Die (2000) is an American film, an adaptation loosely based on Romeo and Juliet, directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak. ... The Transporter is an action/crime movie released in the United States on October 11, 2002. ... Jason Statham (born 12 September 1972) is an English actor, known for his definitive masculine roles in the Guy Ritchie crime films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Revolver and Snatch. ... For other persons named Michael Jackson, see Michael Jackson (disambiguation). ... John Daniel Singleton (born January 6, 1968 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. ... This article is about the pay TV channel. ... For the type of cuisine, see soul food. ...

Style

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Stanley Clarke became the first bassist in history who could double on acoustic and electric bass with equal ferocity, as well as the first bassist ever to headline tours, selling out shows worldwide. In 1976 Clarke recorded what is now considered to be the must-know bass anthem, “School Days.” To this day, accomplished and aspiring bassists continue to imitate his style seeking to master his pioneered percussive slap funk technique. Image File history File links Question_book-new. ...

Equipment

Clarke has always been very strongly associated with Alembic basses and the vast majority of his recorded output has been produced with one model of Alembic or another, particularly a dark-wood-colored custom bass in the Series I body style. These basses are handmade neck-through instruments made from a mixture of exotic woods and a proprietary active pickup system that is powered from an external preamplifier. A Stanley Clarke Signature Model bass guitar is produced by Alembic. Clarke also utilizes full-range amplification for his basses, more in keeping with a keyboardist's rig than a bassist's or guitarists. To extend his melodic range to play higher registers as he sees orchestrationally fit, he invented two new instruments: the piccolo bass and the tenor bass. Alembic Dragons Breath Custom Bass Guitar Alembic was founded in 1969 and is a manufacturer of high-end electric basses, guitars and preamps. ...

Physical size

Clarke is 6'3" and his Alembic basses tend to be short-scale (in this case, 30-3/4" versus a typical 34"), so in his hands, the Alembic seems almost like a toy. As a result, having large hands and powerful musculature in his arms and hands gives him extra command over the instrument in terms of power, range, and speed. Many of the figures that Clarke plays are very difficult for a smaller bassist to play on a larger bass.

Right-hand technique

The classic Clarke right-hand posture has his fingers approaching the strings much as they would on an upright bass, but rotated through 90 degrees. To achieve this, his forearm lies above and nearly parallel to the strings, while his wrist is hooked downward at nearly a right angle. For lead and solo purposes, his fingers partially hook underneath the strings so that when released, the strings snap against the frets, producing a biting percussive attack. In addition to an economical variation on the Larry Graham-style pop-n'-slap technique, Clarke also uses downward thrusts of the entire right hand, striking two or more strings from above with his fingernails (examples include "School Days", "Rock and Roll Jelly", "Wild Dog", and "Danger Street"). Larry Graham, Jr. ...

Instruments

Stanley Clarke is also the first influential bassist to use piccolo bass prominently. (A piccolo bass is a bass guitar, tuned one octave higher - Clarke's are usually short scale (30.75"), four string, Carl Thompson or Alembic.) Piccolo bass can refer to two string instruments, one acoustic and one electric. ... Carl Thompson (born 1939) is a luthier and musician specializing in the construction of high-quality custom bass guitars, based in Brooklyn, New York. ...

Collaborations

He formed Animal Logic with rock drummer Stewart Copeland, after the break-up of The Police, and singer-songwriter Deborah Holland. The trio had success with their first album and world tour but the follow-up sold poorly, and the band did not continue. Animal Logic is the name of a band (and its eponymous first release) formed in 1989 by Stewart Copeland, Stanley Clarke, and Deborah Holland. ... Rock is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars, and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles, however saxophones have been omitted from newer subgenres of rock music since the 90s. ... For the comic book character, see Drummer (comics). ... Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the band The Police and is an influential drum stylist. ... This article is about the rock band. ... The term singer-songwriter refers to performers who both write and sing their own material. ... Deborah Holland was the lead singer and songwriter of Animal Logic (band). ...

Other notable (recording/touring) project involvements are: (1979) Jeff Beck, (1979) Ron Wood's New Barbarians, (1981) Clarke/Duke Project with George Duke, (1989) Animal Logic with Stewart Copeland, (1993-94) The Superband with Larry Carlton, Billy Cobham, Najee & Deron Johnson, (1995) The Rite of Strings with Jean-Luc Ponty and Al Di Meola and (1999) Vertu’ with Lenny White.

In addition to touring with his own band, Clarke continues to enjoy the challenge of collaborating with other artists on tour. During the summer and fall of 2007 he toured with his Rites of Strings comrades, Al DiMeola and Jean-Luc Ponty. In addition to a date in France and dates in the Eastern US, the tour includes an extensive appearances in South America.

In 2006 Clarke joined old friend, George Duke for a 40-city tour of festivals and performing arts centers. This was the first time Clarke and Duke had toured together in fifteen years. The duo first teamed to form the Clarke/Duke Project in 1981. They scored a Top 20 hit with “Sweet Baby” and recorded three albums.

In 2005 Clarke toured as Trio! with legends in their own right, Béla Fleck and Jean Luc Ponty. The U.S. and European tour received glowing reviews and standing ovations where ever they performed. In fact, Trio! was nominated for a 2006 Relix Jammy Award in the category of “Tour of the Year."

Night School

Early in 2007, Heads Up International through Clarke's own Roxboro Entertainment Group released a DVD entitled Night School: An Evening with Stanley Clarke and Friends (HUDV-7118). The star-studded 90-minute presentation chronicles the third annual Stanley Clarke Scholarship Concert, recorded at Musicians Institute in Hollywood, CA, in October 2002. Clarke strongly feels that those who have had success in realizing their own vision have a duty to help others in their struggle to emerge. Putting thoughts into action, he developed a way to offer scholarships to selected students in financial need, who excel in music.

The Night School DVD scholarship concert features diverse group of musicians that include Stevie Wonder, Wallace Roney, Bela Fleck, Sheila E., Stewart Copeland, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, Wayman Tisdale, Marcus Miller and others. Night School captures performances that range from straight-ahead jazz to full-tilt rock fusion to a twenty-two-piece string ensemble. The DVD has garnered outstanding reviews since its release.^{[citation needed]}

Today

Since the 80s, Stanley has been turning his energy to film and television scoring. He is currently scoring the ABC Family Channel popular and critically acclaimed^{[citation needed]} series “Lincoln Heights,” in addition to writing the show's theme song.

Starting in television, Clarke was nominated for an Emmy for his score for “Pee Wee's Playhouse” and his title themes for “Hull High” and “Knightwatch.” He won the BMI Film Music Award for Oscar-nominated film Boyz ‘n the Hood. He is composer, orchestrator, conductor and performer on such iconic films as What's Love Got To Do With It?, Passenger 57, Poetic Justice, Little Big League, Romeo Must Die, The Transporter, Undercover Brother and Roll Bounce. Clarke received critical acclaim as the composer of the hit Showtime series Soul Food^{[citation needed]}. Altogether Clarke has over 65 film credits. He has become one of the elite in-demand composers in Hollywood^{[citation needed]}. The 1995 release, Stanley Clarke at the Movies, bears stunning witness to this. He is in the process of putting together a second compilation of his film scores, Stanley Clarke at the Movies: Two.

Regarding his composing, Clarke said, “Film has given me the opportunity to compose music not normally associated with myself. It has given me a chance to conduct orchestras and arrange music for various types of ensembles. It's been a diverse experience for me musically, utilized all my skills and made me a more complete musician.“

In October 2006 Clarke was honored with Bass Player magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award. Bass greats Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten presented the award at a ceremony at New York City's Millennium Broadway Hotel. A multi Grammy award winner, Stanley was the very first “Jazzman of the Year” for Rolling Stone magazine, won Music Award - Best Bassist from Playboy magazine for 10 straight years, and is a member of Guitar Player magazine's “Gallery of Greats”. He was honored with the key to the city of Philadelphia and put his hands in cement as a 1999 inductee into Hollywood's “Rock Walk” on Sunset Boulevard. Clarke has won every Reader's Poll and Critic's Poll out there^{[citation needed]}. In 2004 he was featured in Los Angeles magazine as one of the Top 50 Most Influential People.

Due to Clarke's status in the music world as well as his ability to articulate about music in a way that all can understand, BET-J launched a series hosted by Clarke entitled, On the Road with Stanley Clarke in June 2006. The series consists of seven episodes titled: “Origins of Black Music,” “That Philly Sound,” “Jazz Beyond the Classroom,” “Black Music in Film, Television & Theatre,” “Jazz,” “Black Music in Film – The Next Generation” and “Bass to Bass.” Some of his guests include Terence Blanchard, Marcus Miller, George Duke, The Tate Brothers, Gamble & Huff and academics Dr. Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje and Dr. Cheryl Keyes from the Department of Ethnomusicology at UCLA among many others. “On the Road with Stanley Clarke” episodes are set to rerun on BET-J in 2007.

In 2008, Stanley was presented with a Doctorate in Fine Arts from his alma mater, the University of the Arts. There are at least two educational institutions called the University of the Arts: University of the Arts London in the United Kingdom University of the Arts in Philadelphia in the United States Universities with very similar names include: Berlin University of the Arts in Germany Chugye University for the Arts...

He has three children, Chris, and two step children Natasha and Frank.

Discography

The Toys of Men

October 16, 2007, Clarke's new CD, The Toys of Men was released. The first week of release it made a phenomenal jump to #2 on Billboard magazine's Contemporary Jazz Chart. The 13-track CD examines the emotional sweep of war, and features guest appearances by vocalist/bassist Esperanza Spalding, percussionist Paulinho da Costa and Grammy Award-winning violinist Mads Tolling. The Toys of Men also includes acoustic bass interludes that provide a stirring counterpoint to Clarke's more well known fiery electric bass attack. This is Clarke's first solo release in five years. Fans have been looking forward to this new CD and reviews confirm it has been worth waiting for^{[citation needed]}. is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...

Partial solo discography

• Children of Forever (Polydor) (1973)
• Stanley Clarke (Epic) (1974)
• Journey to Love (Epic) (1975)
• School Days (Epic) (1976)
• I Wanna Play for You (Epic) (1977)
• Live 1976-1977 (Epic) (1977)
• Modern Man (Nemperor) (1978)
• Fuse One (IMS) (1980)
• Rocks, Pebbles and Sand (Epic) (1980)
• The Clarke/Duke Project, Vol. 1 (Epic) (1981)
• Let Me Know You (Columbia) (1982)
• The Clarke/Duke Project, Vol. 2 (Columbia) (1983)
• Time Exposure (Epic) (1984)
• Find Out! (Epic) (1985)
• Hideaway (Epic) (1986)
• Project (CBS) (1988)
• If This Bass Could Only Talk (Portrait) (1988)
• 3 (Epic) (1989)
• Passenger 57 (Epic) (1992)
• East River Drive (Epic) (1993)
• Live at the Greek (Epic) (1993)
• Live at Montreux (Jazz Door) (1994)
• The Rite of Strings (Gai Saber) (1995)
• At the Movies (Epic Soundtrax) (1995)
• The Bass-ic Collection (1997)
• 1,2,To The Bass (2003)
• The Toys of Men (2007)

Track listing Children Of Forever – 10:42 Unexpected Days – 5:53 Bass Folk Song – 7:59 Butterfly Dreams – 6:52 Sea Journey – 16:26 Personnel Andy Bey – Flute, Vocals Dee Dee Bridgewater – Vocals Stanley Clarke – Bass, Fiddle, Guitar, Percussion, Guitar (Bass), Guitar (Electric), Keyboards Chick Corea – Piano, Piano (Electric), Clavinet... Stanley Clarke is the second album of the bassist Stanley Clarke. ... Journey to Love is a jazz funk fusion album by bass guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Stanley Clarke, accompanied by familiar musicians he has often worked with like George Duke. ... Track listing School Days – 7:51 Quiet Afternoon – 5:09 The Dancer – 5:27 Desert Song – 6:56 Hot Fun – 2:55 Life Is Just A Game – 9:00 Personnel Al Aarons – Bass, Brass Marilyn Baker – Strings Jeff Beck – Guitar Stewart Blumberg – Bass, Brass George Bohannon – Bass, Brass George Bohanon... Track listing School Days – 7:01 Lopsy Lu – 7:25 Quiet Afternoon – 6:51 Silly Putty – 5:37 Dayride – 7:04 Bass Folk Song No. ... Track listing Danger Street – 04:51 All Hell Broke Loose – 05:03 Rocks, Pebbles And Sand – 04:13 Underestimation – 03:43 You/Me Together – 04:05 We Supply – 04:21 The Story Of A Man And A Woman - Part 1: She Thought I Was Stanley Clarke - Part 2: A Fool... For the photographic technique of time exposure see Bulb (photography). ... Hideaway is the sixth original studio album by American folk rock trio America, released by Warner Bros. ... Track listing If This Bass Could Only Talk – 2:30 Goodbye Pork Pie Hat – 6:24 I Want To Play For Ya – 3:22 Stories To Tell – 3:46 Funny How Time Flies (When Youre Having Fun) – 6:07 Workin Man – 6:27 Tradition – 7:11 Come Take My... For other uses, see 3 (disambiguation). ... Passenger 57 is a 1992 action film starring Wesley Snipes and Bruce Payne. ... Track listing Justices Grove – 4:06 Fantasy Love – 4:37 Zabadoobeedi- (Yabadoobeeda!) – 4:35 East River Drive – 7:48 Im Home Africa – 5:59 Theme From Boyz N The Hood – 6:58 Christmas In Rio – 6:42 What If I Forget The Champagne – 5:12 Never Lose Your... Live at the Greek is a double live album by Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes, released by TVT Records on July 4, 2000. ... Live At Montreux is a live album by Alice Cooper, released in May 2006 (see 2006 in music). ... The Rite of Strings is the only album by virtuosi Al Di Meola, Stanley Clarke & Jean-Luc Ponty, after their trip around the world, in 1995. ... At the Movies is the twenty-fourth album of the smooth jazz bassist Stanley Clarke. ... Track listing School Days – 7:49 Wild Dog – 3:31 We Supply – 4:11 Mothership Connection (Star Child) – 4:16 Journey To Love – 4:42 Hello Jeff – 5:14 I Wanna Play For You – 5:13 Silly Putty – 4:40 Hot Fun – 2:30 Rock n Roll Jelly – 5:06...

with Return to Forever

• Return to Forever (1972, ECM)
• Light as a Feather (1972, Polydor)
• Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (1973, Polydor)
• Where Have I Known You Before (1974, Polydor)
• No Mystery (1975, Polydor)
• Romantic Warrior (1976, Columbia)
• Musicmagic (1977, Columbia)
• Return to Forever Live (1979)
• The Best of Return to Forever (1980)

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with Pharoah Sanders

• Black Unity (1971)

Track listing Black Unity – 37:21 Personnel Joe Bonner – Piano Stanley Clarke – Bass Norman Connors – Drums Carlos Garnett – Flute, Sax (Tenor) Billy Hart – Drums Lawrence Killian – Percussion, Conga, Balafon, Talking Drum Cecil McBee – Bass Marvin Hannibal Peterson – Trumpet Pharoah Sanders – Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor), Balafon Production Michael Cuscuna – Reissue Producer...

with The New Barbarians

• Buried Alive (recorded 1979, released 2006)

As a co-leader/band member

• Echoes of an Era (with Chaka Khan)
• Echoes of an Era Live (with Nancy Wilson) The Griffith Park Band Live
• The Griffith Park Collection
• Clarke/Duke Project (with George Duke) (1981)
• Clarke/Duke Project II (1983)
• Clarke/Duke Project III (1990)
• Live in Montreux, 1988 (1993, Jazz Door-bootleg)
• Stanley Clarke & Friends (with Larry Carlton, Billy Cobham, Deron Johnson & Najee)
• Live At The Greek (1994)
• The Manhattan Project (with Lenny White, Michel Petrucciani, Wayne Shorter) (1989)
• Animal Logic (1989)
• Animal Logic II (1991)
• Implosions w/Stanley Clarke, Randy Brecker, McCoy Tyner, Frank Morgan,Peter *Erskine, Roger Kellaway and Ernie Watts, (1987)
• The Rite of Strings w/Stanley Clarke, Al Di Meola & Jean Luc Ponty (1995)
• Vertu’ – McCoy Tyner with Stanley Clarke (with Lenny White) (1999)
• McCoy Tyner with Stanley Clarke and Al Foster (2000)

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As a Producer

• ROY AYERS - In The Dark
• ROY BUCHANAN - Loading Zone
• DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER - Just Family
• NATALIE COLE - I’m Ready
• MAYNARD FERGUSON - Hollywood
• FREE FLIGHT - Illuminations
• RODNEY FRANKLIN - Diamonds Inside of You
• HOWARD HEWITT - I Commit to Love
• KENT JORDAN - No Question About it
• RAMSEY LEWIS & NANCY WILSON - The Two of Us
• JEFF LORBER- MARILYN McCOO · · BRENDA RUSSELL
• SHALAMAR - The Look
• BILLY SHIELDS - Shieldstone
• JIM WALKER - Private Fligh

Filmography

Feature Films

Boyz 'N The Hood 1991 directed by John Singleton The film title, Boyz-N-The Hood, is taken from the name of a classic hip-hop song performed by Eazy-E as a member of the group N.W.A. For the Southern rap quartet, see Boyz N Da Hood. ...

What's Love Got To Do With It (The Tina Turner Story) 1993 directed by Brian Gibson

Romeo Must Die 2000 directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak Romeo Must Die (2000) is an American film, an adaptation loosely based on Romeo and Juliet, directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak. ...

The Transporter 2002 directed by Luc Besson, Louis Leterrier, Corey Yuen The Transporter is an action/crime movie released in the United States on October 11, 2002. ...

Poetic Justice 1993 directed by John Singleton Poetic Justice is a 1993 drama/romance film starring Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Regina King and Joe Torry. ...

Passenger 57 1992 directed by Kevin Hooks Passenger 57 is a 1992 action film starring Wesley Snipes and Bruce Payne. ...

The Five Heartbeats 1991 directed by Robert Townsend The Five Heartbeats is a feature film directed by Robert Townsend, who also stars in the film with Michael Wright, Leon Robinson, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells, Harold Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers, and Diahann Carroll. ...

Little Big League 1994 directed by Andrew Scheinman Little Big League  is a 1994 film about an 11-year-old (later turns 12) who suddenly becomes the owner and then manager of the Minnesota Twins baseball team. ...

Undercover Brother 2002 directed by Malcolm D. Lee Undercover Brother is a 2002 comedy starring Eddie Griffin and directed by Malcolm D. Lee (cousin of Spike Lee). ...

Tap 1989 directed by Nick Castle Look up tap in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Higher Learning 1995 directed by John Singleton For other uses, see Higher Learning (disambiguation). ...

Roll Bounce 2005 directed by Malcolm D. Lee Roll Bounce is a 2005 comedy-drama film starring rapper Bow Wow, Chi McBride, Kellita Smith and Jurnee Smollett. ...

Undisputed 2002 directed by Walter Hill Undisputed is a 2002 action movie released through Miramax. ...

The Best Man 1999 directed by Malcolm D. Lee The Best Man is a 1999 comedy-drama romance film, written and directed by Malcolm D. Lee. ...

Panther 1995 directed by Mario Van Peebles Panther is a 1995 film dramatizing the story of The Black Panther Party of Self-Defense. ...

Eddie 1996 directed by Steve Rash Eddie or Eddy is a diminutive for Edward or Edmund and may refer to: In sports: Eddie Cheever, American race car driver Eddy Curry American professional basketballer Eddie Guardado, American baseball closer Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler (d. ...

Watch It 1993 directed by Tom Flynn

B*A*P*S 1997 directed by Robert Townsend B*A*P*S is a 1997 comedy film, written by Troy Beyer, and directed by Robert Townsend. ...

Bleeding Hearts 1994 directed by Gregory Hines Bleeding Hearts is a 1994 novel by Ian Rankin, under the pseudonym Jack Harvey. ...

The Book Of Love 1990 directed by Robert Shaye

Cool as Ice 1991 directed by David Kellogg Cool as Ice is a 1991 film loosely based on Rebel Without a Cause, and often referred to as the Vanilla Ice Movie. ...

One Down Two To Go 1983 directed by Fred Williamson

Dangerous Ground 1999 directed by Darrell Roodt Dangerous Ground is a 1997 film starring Ice Cube and Elizabeth Hurley. ...

Down in the Delta 1998 directed by Maya Angelou Down in the Delta is a 1998 drama directed by Maya Angelou. ...

Into the Sun 2005 directed by mink Into the Sun is the 1998 debut album by Sean Lennon. ...

The Show 1995 directed by Brian Robbins The Show was a British television show, produced by and for Channel 4 Television, which ran for a single series in 1997. ...

Sprung 1997 directed by Rusty Cundieff Sprung is a video game for the Nintendo DS, developed by Guillemot Inc. ...

Like Mike 2: Streetball 2006 directed byDavid Nelson

Red Hot 1993 Paul Haggis European Chain Store ...

Television

“Lincoln Heights” (Series) 2006 – present ABC Family Channel

“Pee Wee's Playhouse” (Selected Episodes) 1986 directed byBill Freiberger, Steven Johnson, Guy J. Loutham, William Orr, Paul Reubens

“Soul Food” (Series) 2000 - 2004 directed by Felicia D. Henderson

“Tales from the Crypt” 1990 directed by Jack Sholder, Joel Silver (Episode: “Fitting Punishment”)

“A Man Called Hawk” (Series) 1989 directed by Mario DiLeo, Bill Duke, Harry Falk, Winrich Kolbe, Stan Latham, Sigmund Neufeld Jr, Virgil W. Vogel

“Knightwatch” (Series) 1988 -1989 directed by Sharon Miller, Kevin Rodney Sullivan

“Hull High” (Series) 1990 directed by Gil Grant, Bruce Bilson, Kenny Ortega, Steven Robman

Television Movies

“The Cherokee Kid” 1996 directed by Paris Barclay

“The Red Sneakers” 2002 directed by Gregory Hines

“Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story” 1992 directed by Charles Braverman

“The Color of Friendship” 2000 directed by Kevin Hooks

“The Kid Who Loved Christmas” 1990 directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman

“The Court Martial of Jackie Robinson” 1990 directed by Larry Peerce

“Blue Bayou” 1990 directed by Karen Arthur

“Dangerous Pursuit” 1990 directed by Sandor Stern

“Rocky Marciano” 1999 directed by Charles Winkler

“The Loretta Claiborne Story” 2000 directed by Lee Grant

“Funny Valentines” 1999 directed by Julie Dash

“Tales from the Whoop” 1990 directed by Whoopi Goldberg

“If You Believe” 1999 directed by Alan Metzger

“Relentless: Mind of a Killer” 1993 directed by John Patterson

“Boy Meets Girl” 1993 directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan

“Love Kills” 1998 directed by Brian Grant

“On the Line” 1998 directed by Elodie Keene

“Road to Galveston” 1996 directed by Michael Toshiyuki Uno

“Royce” 1994 directed by Rob Holcomb

“Out on the Edge” 1989 directed by John Pasquin

“Prison Stories: Women on the Inside” 1991 directed by Donna Deitch, Joan Micklin Silver, Penelope Spheeris

“Murder She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle” 2003 directed by Anthony Pullen Shaw

“The Big Time” 2002 directed by Paris Barclay

“Little John” (Hallmark Hall of Fame) 2002 directed by Dick Lowry

“Murder She Wrote: The Last Free Man” 2001 directed by Anthony Pullen Shaw

Animation

“Static Shock” (Series) 2000 directed by Denys Cowan, Dan Riba

“Waynehead” (Series) 1996-1997 directed by Damon Wayans

“Cool Like That Christmas” 1994 directed by David Feiss, Swinton O. Scott III

Music Videos

“Michael Jackson: Remember the Time” 1992 directed by John Singleton

Documentaries

Meet Bob Shaye 2004 directed by Jeffery Schwartz

Maryanne e gli altri (Italy) 1995 directed by Ita Cesa, Giuseppe Selva

References

1. ^ Live Interview with David Dye, November 2, 2007. [1]

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External links

• stanleyclarke.com - Stanley Clarke's official website
• roxboroentertainment.com - Stanley Clarke's own label
• innerviews.org - Stanley Clarke interview from April 26, 1998.
• mediaport.info - Stanley Clarke. Fotoreport from Jazz Koktebel 2006.
• "Return to Forever: Twelve Historic Tracks" by Walter Kolosky, (Jazz.com)
• Stanley Clarke: Innovative Forever From honesttune.com.