LEGENDS OF JAZZ BASS-STANLEY CLARKE

The story of how Stanley Clarke began playing bass is funny. When he was a young boy, he was late to the music class when the instruments were distributed. The last instrument left was the acoustic bass, and what do you know, he ends up being world famous!

He is most often associated with Chick Corea (amazing pianist) in the 70s jazz fusion group Return to Forever. He has also worked on tons of soundtracks for Hollywood films and tv shows.

Stanley has a unique way of holding the bass and approaching the strings that allows him to achieve a more percussive attack on the bass. In case you think that Stanley's interests are narrow, consider this: he has an emmy-nominated score for Pee-Wee's Playhouse...ha!

Let's look and listen to some great playing from this bass master:

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