The Stanley Clarke Band SAT / JAN 18 / 7:30 PM Stanley Clarke BASS Cameron Graves KEYBOARDS Evan Garr VIOLIN Salar Nader TABLAS Jeremiah Collier DRUMS Lyris Quartet Alyssa Park VIOLIN Shalini Vijayan VIOLIN Luke Maurer VIOLA Timothy Loo CELLO Tonight’s program will be announced from the stage. There will be no intermission. Jazz & Blues at The Broad Stage made possible by a generous gift from Richard & Lisa Kendall. PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE 4 Naik Raj by Photo ABOUT THE ARTISTS Photo by Raj Naik Raj by Photo Four-time GRAMMY® Award winner of Philadelphia, a Doctorate from Clarke Band: UP, garnered him a 2015 STANLEY CLARKE is undoubtedly one Philadelphia’s University of the Arts GRAMMY® Award nomination for Best of the most celebrated acoustic and and put his hands in cement as a Jazz Arrangement Instrumental or A electric bass players in the world. 1999 inductee into Hollywood’s “Rock Cappella for the song “Last Train to What’s more, he is equally gifted Walk.” In 2011 he was honored with Sanity” and an NAACP Image Award as a recording artist, performer, the highly prestigious Miles Davis nomination for Best Jazz Album. composer, conductor, arranger, Award at the Montréal Jazz Festival Clarke’s CD, The Message, was producer and fi lm score composer. for his entire body of work. Clarke has released on Mack Avenue Records A true pioneer in jazz and jazz- won Downbeat magazine’s Reader’s in 2018. Clarke considers the new fusion, Clarke is particularly known and Critics Poll for Best Electric Bass album “funky, melodic, musical, for his ferocious bass dexterity Player for many years. In September contemporary and fresh with a rich and consummate musicality. 2016 he became a part of the multi-genre infl uence.” Including Unquestionably, he has attained permanent collection displayed at the compositions from his band members, “living legend” status during his Smithsonian’s new National Museum Beka Gochiashvili, Mike Mitchel and more than 45-year career as a bass of African American History and Cameron Graves, the album swells virtuoso. Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, D.C. with an abundance of strength, soul Clarke’s creativity has been Clarke has 13 GRAMMY® Award and astounding musicianship. Guest recognized and rewarded in every nominations. He has won four times. artists, rapper/beatboxer Doug E. way imaginable: gold and platinum In 2011 he won a GRAMMY® Award Fresh, trumpeter Mark Isham and records, GRAMMY® Awards, Emmy for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, saxophonist Doug Webb, as well as nominations, virtually every readers The Stanley Clarke Band, with Ruslan Steve Blum and vocalists Skeyler Kole and critics poll in existence and Sirota and Ronald Bruner, Jr., and Trevor Wesley, also join Clarke more. He was Rolling Stone’s ver y featuring pianist Hiromi. He was also on the new album. Propelled by the fi rst Jazzman of the Year and bassist nominated for the “No Mystery” youthfulness of his bandmates, Clarke winner of Playboy’s Music Award for cut as Best Pop Instrumental reaches even deeper into his bag of ten straight years. Clarke was honored Performance. The same year Clarke tricks with the incredibly satisfying with Bass Player Magazine’s Lifetime won a Latin GRAMMY® for Best The Message. Achievement Award and is a member Instrumental Album with Return to Stanley Clarke was barely out of of ’s “Gallery Forever’s , along with group Guitar Player Magazine Forever his teens when he exploded into of Greats.” In 2004 he was featured members Chick Corea and Lenny the jazz world in 1971. Fresh out in magazine as one of the White. went on to win him Los Angeles Forever of the Philadelphia Academy of Top 50 Most Infl uential People. He the 2012 GRAMMY® Award for Best Music, he arrived in New York City was honored with the key to the city Instrumental Album. The Stanley and immediately landed jobs with PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE 5 ABOUT THE ARTISTS famous bandleaders such as Horace instrumental voices. In addition to with keyboardist George Duke in 1981 Silver, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, their recent GRAMMY® Award-winning to form the Clarke/Duke Project. Joe Henderson, Pharaoh Saunders, Forever CD, the band recorded eight Together, they scored a top 20 pop Gil Evans and Stan Getz, among albums, two of which were certifi ed hit with “Sweet Baby” and recorded others. As a young prodigy he was gold (Return To Forever and the classic three albums. Over the last decade immediately recognized for his sense Romantic Warrior). They also won a he toured with George Duke in 2006 of lyricism and melody, which he had GRAMMY® Award (No Mystery) and and the Clarke/Duke 4: Bring It distilled from his bass heroes Charles received numerous nominations while Tour in 2012 and 2013 until Duke’s Mingus, Scott LaFaro and others, as touring incessantly. In 2011 Clarke untimely death. Clarke’s involvement well as non-bass players like John reunited with founding members, in additional projects as leader or Coltrane. Chick Corea and Lenny White, for active member include: Jeff Beck the highly anticipated and extremely (world tours, 1979), Keith Richards’ Clarke fi red the bass “shot heard successful Return To Forever 2-year, New Barbarians (world tour, 1980), round the world” that started the ‘70s 90-city world tour. Animal Logic (with Stewart Copeland, bass revolution and paved the way two albums and tours, 1989), the for all bassists/soloists/bandleaders Always in search of new challenges, “Superband” (with Larry Carlton, Billy to follow. In 1974, he released his Clarke turned his boundless creative Cobham, Najee and Deron Johnson, eponymous Stanley Clarke album, energy to fi lm and television scoring 1993-1994), The Rite of Strings (with which featured the hit single “Lopsy in the mid-1980s. He has become one Jean-Luc Ponty and Al Di Meola, Lu.” Two years later, he released of the elite in-demand composers 1995 and 2004) Vertu’ (with Lenny School Days, an album whose title in Hollywood. Starting on the small White, 1999) and “Trio!” (with Béla track is now a bona fi de bass anthem. screen with an Emmy-nominated Fleck and Jean Luc Ponty, 2005). In The song, “School Days,” has since score for Pee Wee’s Playhouse, he 2008 Clarke teamed up with fellow become a must-learn for nearly every transitioned to the silver screen bass titans Marcus Miller and Victor up-and-coming bassist, regardless of and now has well over 65 fi lm and Wooten—collectively known as S.M.V. genre. television credits to his name. As —and released , their earth composer, orchestrator, conductor Thunder Leading the bass liberation shaking debut collaboration. In 2012 and performer he has scored such movement, Clarke envisioned he toured jazz festivals with Stewart blockbuster fi lms as Boyz ‘N the the bass as a viable, melodic solo Copeland (Police drummer) in Europe Hood, What’s Love Got To Do With instrument positioned at the front of in addition to a trio of dates with It?, The Transporter, Romeo Must Die, the stage rather than in a background Chick Corea and legendary drummer Passenger 57, Poetic Justice, Best Man role, and he was uniquely qualifi ed Jack DeJohnette. and , just to take it there. A pioneer at 25, he Holiday The Five Heartbeats to name a few. He even scored the Not one to rest on the laurels from became the fi rst jazz-fusion bassist Michael Jackson video his various pursuits as a composer, in history to headline tours, sell out Remember , directed by John Singleton. performer and recording artist of shows worldwide and craft albums the Time Most recently he scored the lauded more than 40 albums and 65 fi lm that achieved gold status. He was also 2019 documentary . In 2014 he scores, Clarke launched his own the fi rst bassist in history to double Halston accepted an invitation to become a record label, Roxboro Entertainment on acoustic and electric bass with member of the exclusive Academy of Group. This business venture includes equal virtuosity, power and fi re. In Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. music publishing for his own and his ongoing efforts to push the bass other musicians’ work, as well as to new limits, he invented two new “Film has given me the opportunity the development of various projects instruments, the piccolo bass and the to write large orchestral scores and aimed at music education. So far tenor bass. The piccolo bass is tuned to compose music not normally Roxboro Entertainment has released one octave higher than the traditional associated with myself,” says Clarke. CDs from guitarist Lloyd Gregory, electric bass. The tenor bass is tuned “It’s given me the chance to conduct multi-instrumentalist Kennard one fourth higher than standard. Both orchestras and arrange music for Ramsey, keyboardist Sunnie Paxson, of these instruments have enabled various types of ensembles. It’s been Ukrainian-born pianist, arranger and Clarke to extend his melodic range to a diverse experience for me musically, keyboardist Ruslan Sirota and young higher and more expressive registers. made me a more complete musician jazz piano prodigy Beka Gochiashvili and focused my skills completely.” One of Clarke’s musical visions from Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. His 1995 release, became a reality in the early 1970s Stanley Clarke at , is a testament to this Clarke passionately believes in when he met Chick Corea and the Movies heightened level of musicianship. giving back to help young musicians eventually formed the seminal hone their skills. He and his wife electric jazz/fusion band Return In addition to touring with his own Sofi a established The Stanley Clarke To Forever.