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The Band SAT / JAN 19 / 7:30 PM

Stanley Clarke BAND LEADER/BASS Beka Gochiashvili /KEYBOARDS Shariq Tucker DRUMS Cameron Graves KEYBOARDS Salar Nader TABLA/PERCUSSION Evan Garr VIOLIN

Jazz & Blues at The Broad Stage made possible by a generous gift from Richard & Lisa Kendall. Photo by Raj Naik Raj by Photo

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE 6 ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Four-time GRAMMY® Award-winner STANLEY CLARKE is undoubtedly one of the most celebrated acoustic and electric bass players in the world. What’s more, he is equally gifted as a recording artist, performer, composer, conductor, arranger, producer and film score composer. A true pioneer in and jazz-fusion, Clarke is particularly known for his ferocious bass dexterity and consummate musicality. Unquestionably, he has attained “living legend” status during his more than 40-year career as a bass virtuoso.

Clarke’s creativity has been recognized and rewarded in every way imaginable: gold and platinum records, GRAMMY® Awards, Emmy® nominations, virtually Naik Raj by Photo every readers and critics’ poll in existence and more. He was ’s very first Jazzman of the Year Clarke has 13 GRAMMY® Award swells with an abundance and winner of Playboy’s Music nominations and has won four times. of strength, soul and astounding Award for 10 straight years. Clarke was In 2011, he won a GRAMMY® Award musicianship. Guest artists, rapper/ honored with Bass Player Magazine’s for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, beatboxer Doug E. Fresh, trumpeter Lifetime Achievement Award and is a , with Mark Isham, and saxophonist member of Guitar Player Magazine’s and Ronald Bruner, Jr., Doug Webb, Steve Blum and vocalists “Gallery of Greats.” In 2004, he was featuring pianist Hiromi. He was also Skeyler Kole and Trevor Wesley, also featured in Los Angeles Magazine as nominated for the “” cut as join Clarke on the new album. Propelled one of the Top 50 Most Influential Best Pop Instrumental Performance. by the youthfulness of his bandmates, People. He was honored with the key The same year, Clarke won a Latin Clarke reaches even deeper into his to the city of , a Doctorate GRAMMY® for Best Instrumental Album bag of tricks with the incredibly from Philadelphia’s University of the with ’s Forever, along satisfying The Message. Arts and put his hands in cement with group members and as a 1999 inductee into Hollywood’s . Forever went on to win To this day, Stanley remains as “Rock Walk.” In 2011, he was honored him the 2012 GRAMMY® Award for passionate about music as when he was with the highly prestigious Best Instrumental Album. His album, a young teen prodigy from Philly with Award at the Montreal Jazz Festival for The Stanley Clarke Band: UP, garnered big dreams. Like the man himself, his his entire body of work. Clarke has won him a 2015 GRAMMY® Award nomination biography is a continuous work in DownBeat magazine’s Reader’s and for Best Jazz Arrangement Instrumental progress. Legend is a word that has Critics Polls for Best Electric Bass or A Cappella for the song “Last Train been associated with Stanley since he Player for many years. In September to Sanity” and an NAACP Image Award was 25, yet he remains unpretentious, 2016, six of Stanley’s records, plus two nomination for Best Jazz Album. preferring simple pleasures in the instruments and one case became a peaceful canyon where he resides part of the permanent collection Clarke’s newest CD, The Message, was in Los Angeles. displayed at the Smithsonian’s National released on Mack Avenue Records in Museum of African American History 2018. Clarke considers the new album and Culture in Washington, D.C. “funky, melodic, musical, contemporary In 2014, Clarke became a member and fresh with a rich multi-genre of the exclusive Academy of Motion influence.” Including compositions from Picture Arts & Sciences for his notable his band members, Beka Gochiashvili, film composing work. Mike Mitchel and Cameron Graves, the

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