Stanley Clarke to Release First Acoustic Trio Album

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With the May 12 issue of Jazz In The Garden (Heads Up), Stanley Clarke will see the first release of an acoustic trio album that he has led.

“I had never done an acoustic bass record, ever,” he said. “There’s a long list of people on whose records I’ve played acoustic bass—Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Joe Henderson and many others—but I’d never done an acoustic jazz trio record of my own. So I wanted to record one that would just feature the piano and the acoustic bass in a way that you could really hear the bass.”  

For this album, Clarke convened a trio with pianist Hiromi Uehara and drummer Lenny White.



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