School Days

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:37:01
Personnel includes: Stanley Clarke (vocals, piano, acoustic, electric & piccolo basses, handbells, gong, chimes); Jack Nimitz, Buddy Childers, Lew McCreary, George Bohanon, William Peterson, Stuart Blumberg, Albert Aarons (brass); David Sancious (organ, keyboards, Mini-Moog synthesizer, guitar); George Duke (keyboards); Billy Cobham (Moog synthesizer, drums); Icarus Johnson (acoustic & electric guitars); John McLaughlin (acoustic guitar); Raymond Gomez (guitar) Gerry Brown (drums, handbells); Steve Gadd (drums); Milt Holland (congas, triangle, percussion). Recorded at Electric Lady Studios, New York, New York and A&M Studios, Los Angeles, California in June 1976. Personnel: Stanley Clarke (vocals, guitar, electric guitar, piano, keyboards, acoustic bass, electric bass, bass guitar, percussion, bells, hand bells, gong, chimes); Icarus Johnson (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); John McLaughlin (guitar, acoustic guitar); David Sancious (guitar, electric guitar, organ, keyboards, mini-Moog synthesizer, Moog synthesizer); Ray Gomez (guitar, electric guitar); Charles "Icarus" Johnson, Jeff Beck (guitar); John Wittenberg, David Campbell , Lya Stern, Dennis Karmazyn, Janice Gower Adele, Karen Jones , Thomas Buffum, Robert Dubow, Rollice Dale, Marcia Van Dyke, Ron Strauss, Marilyn Baker, Gordon Marron Strings, Janice Gower (strings); Jon Faddis, Alan Rubin, Lew Soloff (trumpet); Tom "Bones" Malone, David Taylor (trombone); George Bohannon, Dalton Smith, Gary Grant, Jack Nimitz, Robert Findley, William Peterson , Al Aarons, Stewart Blumberg, Lew McCreary, Buddy Childers (brass); Earl Chapin, John Clark , Peter Gordon , Wilmer Wise (horns); George Duke (keyboards, synthesizer); Chick Corea (keyboards); Billy Cobham (Moog synthesizer, drums); Gerry Brown (drums, bells, hand bells); Gerry Brown (drums, hand bells); Lenny White, Steve Gadd (drums); Milt Holland (congas, triangle, percussion). Audio Remixer: Ken Scott . Recording information: A & M Studios, Los Angeles, CA (06/1976); A&M Studios, Hollywood, CA (06/1976); A&M Studios, Los Angeles CA (06/1976); Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY (06/1976). Arranger: Stanley Clarke . Every pro electric-bass player and their mothers wore out the grooves of this record when it first came out, trying to cop Clarke's speedy, thundering, slapped-thumb bass licks. Yet ultimately, it was Clarke's rapidly developing compositional skills that made this album so listenable and so much fun for the rest of us, then and now. The title track not only contributed a killer riff to the bass vocabulary; it is a cunningly organized piece of music with a well-defined structure. Moreover, Clarke follows his calling card with two tunes that are even more memorable -- the sauntering ballad "Quiet Afternoon" and an ebullient, Brazilian percussion-laced number with a good string arrangement and a terrific groove, "The Dancer." Clarke also brings out the standup bass for a soulful acoustic dialogue with John McLaughlin on "Desert Song." Evidently enthused by their leader's material, David Sancious (keyboards) and Raymond Gomez (guitars) deliver some of their best solos on records -- and with George Duke on hand on one cut, you hear some preliminary flickerings of Clarke's ventures into the commercial sphere. But at this point in time, Clarke was triumphantly proving that it was possible to be both good and commercial at the same time. ~ Richard S. Ginell
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)