Stanley Clarke Playing Sadowsky

[ardgedee]

The pic of him with a huge collection of instruments is from the I Wanna Play For You album, I think one of the LP sleeves.

This one?

Tangentially -- most interesting item on there might be the one on the landing, between the acoustic and electric uprights. It looks like the Steinberger L prototype that was made with full-size tuners. I'd love to see a better quality scan of this photo than the one on Discogs.

Since I'm on weird details, on the cover he's holding an Alembic that looks like it has a Bigsby tremolo. Hard to make it out though.

 

[Geri O]

Tangentially

The word of the day….

 

[Gluvhand]

This one?
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Tangentially -- most interesting item on there might be the one on the landing, between the acoustic and electric uprights. It looks like the Steinberger L prototype that was made with full-size tuners. I'd love to see a better quality scan of this photo than the one on Discogs.

Since I'm on weird details, on the cover he's holding an Alembic that looks like it has a Bigsby tremolo. Hard to make it out though.
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You get a somewhat clearer look at the bass with the tremolo in the first picture. Bottom row, fourth from the right.

 

[ardgedee]

You get a somewhat clearer look at the bass with the tremolo in the first picture. Bottom row, fourth from the right.

Good eyes!

 

[Dr. Cheese]

This one?
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Tangentially -- most interesting item on there might be the one on the landing, between the acoustic and electric uprights. It looks like the Steinberger L prototype that was made with full-size tuners. I'd love to see a better quality scan of this photo than the one on Discogs.

Since I'm on weird details, on the cover he's holding an Alembic that looks like it has a Bigsby tremolo. Hard to make it out though.
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I remember that album, and I think that Alembic did have a Bigsby. Stanley Clarke was on top of the world then. He was a borderline pop star who selling records like crazy for a bassist.

 

[ardgedee]

I remember that album, and I think that Alembic did have a Bigsby. Stanley Clarke was on top of the world then. He was a borderline pop star who selling records like crazy for a bassist.

It was a period when jazz musicians could still get on the pop charts. Radio formats didn't really start getting locked down until the 80s, when broadcasters decided that people who wanted to listen to any specific genre would never be interested in anything else.

 

[micguy]

I'd say you haven't lived until you've witnessed a heated argument over the proper way to smooth the finish on the tapering slit down the middle of a fountain pen nib, but realistically speaking you probably have.

I haven't literally been there, but metaphorically, absolutely. Far too many times, actually.

 

[Snert]

Tangentially

I used this word a few days ago to a gen Zer I work with and had to explain it to her. Even with a diagram, I'm not sure she understood.

 

[Wisebass]

hi Doc

Awesome thread! Some folks are goldmines!!! (e.g. @hieronymous )

Since when does a thread need a deeper meaning?

I just came here to make a point (.)!!!!


greetings

Wise(b)ass

 

[jim nolte]

Stanley Clarke in 1973 with that Alembic and giant Afro.

That’s what I’m talking about, I first saw/heard RTF on a PBS show called Soundstage in the summer of ‘75, after my guitar buddy who had just got back from Berkley School of Music, we had just smoked a jazz cigarette and planted ourself in front of the TV and were completely blown away, stunned, he had just seen Jaco and Pat Metheny do a class at the school and was raving about them, so basically first heard of Stanley and Jaco on the same night, Herbie Hancock was also on the same show, gotta find that on youtube. RIP Chick. Edit: it was the summer of ‘74, my gateway into Jazz/Fusion.

 

[Maxi Funkl]

cool photo:
Expanding Pathways

 

[Dr. Cheese]

cool photo:
Expanding Pathways

That is a very nice interview! Thanks for sharing it!

 

[Dr. Cheese]

I was listening to the Sirius Jazz station, #67, and they had a Stanley Clarke program with John Pattitucci doing the station ID!

 

[eban3]

Maybe his Alembic is broken? He looks odd without an Alembic….

Maybee he's tired of 15 pounds around his neck

 

[Les Fret]

Maybee he's tired of 15 pounds around his neck

I have no idea what his short scale Alembic weighs?

edit:the signature model is about 10 pounds. But that’s not the one he plays himself I think.

 

[MoireBass]

It was a period when jazz musicians could still get on the pop charts. Radio formats didn't really start getting locked down until the 80s, when broadcasters decided that people who wanted to listen to any specific genre would never be interested in anything else.

Yeah. My first point of entry into jazz was Weather Report's 'Birdland' in 1978, which got played quite a bit on the rock stations I listened to, right along with Pink Floyd, etc. It was definitively jazzish, but wasn't so scary and off-putting as so much other jazz was for me at the time. From there, Stanley Clarke wasn't such a big step.

 

[Les Fret]

Yeah. My first point of entry into jazz was Weather Report's 'Birdland' in 1978, which got played quite a bit on the rock stations I listened to, right along with Pink Floyd, etc. It was definitively jazzish, but wasn't so scary and off-putting as so much other jazz was for me at the time. From there, Stanley Clarke wasn't such a big step.

those were the heydays of jazzrock. The big three: Weather Report, Return to Forever, Mahavishnu. They don’t make music like that anymore unfortunately. The 70s were the best for fusion/jazzrock.

 

[BazzaBass]

Yeah but it's only got four strings.

The greats only need 4 strings

 

[Les Fret]

The greats only need 4 strings

say that to Anthony Jackson

 

[Gluvhand]

The greats only need 4 strings

The greats may only need four strings but they're not the ones saying that. That usually comes from fanboys and hacks.