Live 1976-1977

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 01:08:16
Personnel includes: Stanley Clarke (bass); David Sancious (keyboards); John McLaughlin (guitar); Ray Gomez. Personnel: Stanley Clarke (guitar, electric guitar); Al Harrison (whistling, trumpet, piccolo trumpet); John McLaughlin (acoustic guitar); Ray Gomez (electric guitar); Peter Robinson (strings, Fender Rhodes piano, organ); Alfie Williams (flute, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone); Bob Malach (tenor saxophone); James Tinsley (trumpet, piccolo trumpet); David Sancious (piano); Gerry Brown (drums); Munyungo Jackson (percussion). Audio Mixers: Dan Humann; Steve Sykes. Recording information: Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA (06/1976-09/1977); Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY (06/1976-09/1977); Hammersmith Odeon (06/1976-09/1977); Roxy Theater (06/1976-09/1977). Photographers: David Sancious; Henry Diltz; Bruce Talamon; Stanley Clarke . Unknown Contributor Role: James Tinsley . Arranger: Stanley Clarke . After giving Clarke's fans a taste of some live tapes of the School Days band on I Wanna Play for You, Epic waited until 1991 to put another batch of them out, well after it would have been commercially feasible to do so. But no matter, for this CD captures one of Clarke's best electric bands -- maybe his best band, period -- in a number of gigs in the U.S. and U.K., mixing up the jazz, funk, and rock into a high-energy, musically literate brew. A lot of this album recycles then-existing material, but the live conditions add flashes of spontaneity and sometimes considerable interest to jazz fans. Along with the core of Raymond Gomez (guitar), Peter Robinson or David Sancious (keyboards), and Gerry Brown (drums), Clarke used a four-piece horn section to which he gives sophisticated voicings, several solos, and on "The Magician," quasi-Baroque turns. There is a thinly stretched (at times) acoustic cat-and-mouse dialogue between Clarke and Sancious on "Bass Folk Song No. 3," plus, in a departure from the format, an Indian-flavored studio outtake of "Desert Song" (with John McLaughlin) from the School Days sessions. ~ Richard S. Ginell
録音 : ステレオ (Live)