The Stanley Clarke Band

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Fittingly, jazz great Stanley Clarke’s latest album is titled simply The Stanley Clarke Band. Clarke’s there, with bass in hand, but the material comes as much from his bandmates. The album was, in Clarke’s words, “more of a band album,” one that he hopes brings “some kind of band cohesion with the music.” Co-produced along with Clarke’s old friend (and musical giant in his own right) Lenny White, the album features keyboardist Ruslan Sirota and drummer Ronald Bruner Jr., who have made up Clarke’s principal band for half a decade. “They’re still both young and they’ve kind of grown up in my band, so I thought it was only fair to give them an opportunity,” said Clarke, catching up by phone from a tour stop in Detroit. The band will take the stage at the Berklee Performance Center on Sunday along with a featured guest: the 31-year-old, much-buzzed-about pianist Hiromi Uehara, with whom Clarke has been intermittently collaborating. “Players who can explode at the drop of a dime are my favorite kind of players, because they’re always unpredictable. You never know when they’re going to push the button, and she’s like that,” Clarke said. “I’ve been on stage at times where she’s really exploded, and sometimes when she’s decided not to. For a musician, that shows someone with control.” Hiromi, who goes by her first name, is a dazzling performer. Her set at the 2009 Newport Jazz Festival – in which she asked bandmates to take five while she blazed through a torrid “I Got Rhythm”

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And Ya Know We're Missing You: Dedicated to Leon NDUGU Chancler, Darryl Brown, Al Jarreau, Tom Petty, Chuck Berry & my good friend Larry Coryell - Single

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To Be Alive

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Alternative Facts - Single

The Stanley Clarke Band (feat. Hiromi, Ronald Bruner, Jr. and Ruslan)

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To Be Alive - SM STATION

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Combat Continuum - Single

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The Stanley Clarke Band [Album]

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