O contra-baixista Stanley Clarke nasceu na Filadéfia em 30 de junho 1951. Tornou-se referencia no jazz em 1971. Stanley iniciou seus estadudos musicais na Academia de Musica da Filadélfia e ao chegar em New York City, foi trabalhar imediatamente com instrumentistas famosos do quilate de Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Dexter Gordon, Joe Henderson, Gil Evans e Stan Getz.
Esses musicos, acima citados, reconheceram imediatamente a pegada e a musicalidade impares que Clarke possuia no baixo acústico. Era, não somente um perito em pleno desenvolvimento, mas alguem com talento que tinha um sentido superior de lirismo e melodia, inspirado em Charles Mingus, Scott LaFaro, e outros, como o monstro sagrado John Coltrane.
Nos anos 70 notabilizou-se por sua soberba participação no grupo "Return to Forever" liderado pelo pianista Chick Corea. O grupo tornou-se uma referencia no movimento dos grupos envolvidos na fusão de generos e editou alguns discos que agradaram ao publico em geral e receberam reverencias importantes da critica especializada.
Clarke também desenvolveu carreira solo, e um dos seus discos mais importantes foi "School Days"( foto) de 1976, no qual participa o genial Jaco Pastorius e que se tornou um marco na historia do movimento marcado pela fusão dos generos. Os CDs "Stanley Clarke" e "Journey to Love" são dignos de nota e merecem audição apurada.
Detalhe curiosos sobre o musico é que por ser muito alto, os baixos acústicos (stand up bass) que toca têm que ser adaptados à sua altura.
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Clarke was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was introduced to the bass as a schoolboy when he arrived late on the day instruments were distributed to students and acoustic bass was one of the few remaining selections. 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. Clarke is 190cm (6'3") and his Alembic basses tend to be short-scale (in this case, 78cm (30-3/4") versus a typical 86cm (34")).
During the 1970s he joined the jazz fusion group Return to Forever led by pianist and synth player Chick Corea. The group became one of the most important fusion groups and released several albums that achieved both mainstream popularity and plaudits from critics. Clarke also started his solo career in the early 1970s and released a number of albums under his own name. His well-known solo album is School Days (1976), which, along with Jaco Pastorius's self-titled debut, is one of the influential solo bass recordings in fusion history. His albums Stanley Clarke (1974) and Journey to Love (1975) are also notable.
Clarke began with TV scores for ABC's short-lived series A Man Called Hawk and an Emmy-nominated score for Pee-wee's Playhouse. Clarke then moved on to work as a 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 action film, The Transporter, starring Jason Statham and a Michael Jackson video release directed by John Singleton entitled Remember the Time. He played from 1998-99 on Shinichiro Watanabe's Cowboy Bebop and was part of the New York Musicians. He can be heard playing on the 1999 album Cowboy Bebop Blue. In the 2000s, he composed music for the Showtime Network program Soul Food.
Reference - AJD
Tradução - Humberto Amorim
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