Stanley Clarke

In 1976, this jazz fusion smash crossed over to the pop charts and had pigeon-toed music students studying Stanley Clarke's revelatory slap bass technique, and John McLaughlin and Jeff Beck's wild guitar runs. Since teens are once again dressing like the cast of Welcome Back Kotter, why shouldn't they walk the high school halls with this LP stuck under their arms?

Since the recent split-up of Return to Forever, one scam's had Chick Corea and Stanley
Clarke conceiving an acoustic band. Electric fusion devotees blue at such news can at
least be consoled by School Days. Recorded only last June, most of it keeps the amplified
faith. But how is more significant: like a current TV performer who's sold as
"sneaky-funny," Days seems sneaky-sensational. Though Clarke's first two Nemp... More >