I ran into this video after slowing a video of “We Supply” in order to play Louis Johnson’s awesome slap line more accurately. This is short, but it is pretty thoughtful for American Bandstand.
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Stanley Clarke Interview on American Bandstand
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I ran into this video after slowing a video of “We Supply” in order to play Louis Johnson’s awesome slap line more accurately. This is short, but it is pretty thoughtful for American Bandstand.
Although I grew up listening to and playing symphonic music (I don't like the general term 'classical' since that's a period in music to me), and we would play some of those pieces for our son at bedtime to help him sleep, I never impressed it upon him to listen to it. However, a lot of times when he's driving his car he'll listen to the local 'classical' 
music station.
music station.
I would bet that if Stanley were asked the same questions in 2024 his answers would be different. That was the height of a divisive era in jazz and music in general in the conflict between "Classical" and other popular styles like rock, Funk and jazz. I regularly faced those opinions head on in my career as both a classically trained and educated musician who also played rock, blues, jazz and anything else I had the opportunity to play. .
I think symphonic makes more sense than classical too. Calling a new composition classical seems oxymoronic to me.
i think you're probably right about that --- for a bunch of reasons. but he's still so smooth.
Stanley is far and away my favorite upright bassist.
The first two Return To Forever albums are up in my all-time top 10 favorites. Latin jazz before they went full fusion electric. Flora Purim screaming Brazilian style.
Stanleys solos are divine.
The first two Return To Forever albums are up in my all-time top 10 favorites. Latin jazz before they went full fusion electric. Flora Purim screaming Brazilian style.
Stanleys solos are divine.
Thankfully the world today has become both more diverse and more inclusive.
People are much less likely to define themselves by what music they listen to so we don’t have to reject something we’re not supposed to like.
I hope that open mindedness spreads to more of the things that divide people.
People are much less likely to define themselves by what music they listen to so we don’t have to reject something we’re not supposed to like.
I hope that open mindedness spreads to more of the things that divide people.
Hunh...I never knew Icarus Johnson was a white guy, nor that he is the one responsible for the "Little Green Footballs" political site.
Just goes to show what I get for making assumptions. Thanks for posting.
it's a weird world. icarus, who played that fine rollicking solo on " isn't she lovely " ( sonny rollins " easy living " album, ) among a lot of other cool stuff, ended up a full-on nutter.
interviews and making of the album.
Seriously? I’ve experienced the opposite(and I worked in record wholesale/retail for 25 years). If anything, especially in recent times, tastes have become more fragmented, narrowcasted, sub-sub-sub-catagorized, with generally not much crossover. Do you know your Power Violence from your Twee Pop
from your Freakbeat from your Dark Wave from your Trap? Trust me, aficionados of those individual genres are not likely to be listening to all of that. It can and does happen occasionally, but it’s an exception. Youth is a time when you strive to establish a self-identity, find a tribe to belong to, and music is a badge, an indicator, of that identity and an establishing of an “us verses them” stance. Always has been, always will be.
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