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Stanley Clarke: East River Drive

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Artist: Stanley Clarke
Title: East River Drive
Released: 1993
Label: Epic Records
Time: 66:13
Producer(s): Stanley Clarke
Appears with: Al Di Meola, Jean-Luc Ponty
Category: Jazz
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  1999
Price in €: 14,99
Web address: www.stanleyclarke.com

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[1] Justice's Groove (S.Clarke) - 4:07
[2] Fantasy Love (Clarke/Hewett) - 4:37
[3] Zabadoobeedé? [Yabadoobeeda!] (Lecco/Sabal) - 4:35
[4] East River Dance (S.Clarke) - 7:48
[5] I'm Home Africa (Brown/Clarke) - 5:59
[6] Theme from Boyz N the Hood (S.Clarke) - 6:59
[7] Christmas in Rio (S.Clarke) - 6:42
[8] What If I Forgot the Champagne (S.Clarke) - 5:13
[9] Never Lose Your Heart/There Lies the Passion (S.Clarke) - 5:59
[10] Illegal (S.Clarke) - 3:21
[11] Lords of the Low Frequencies (S.Clarke) - 6:08
[12] Funk Is Its Own Reward (S.Clarke) - 4:45

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STANLEY CLARKE - Bass, Arranger, Programming, Backing Vocals, Sequencing

GERALD ALBRIGHT - Alto & Soprano Saxophone
GEORGE DUKE - Piano, Keyboards
CHARLES FAMBROUGH - Bass, Acoustic Bass
GEORGE HOWARD - Bass, Soprano Saxophone
KENNY KIRKLAND - Piano
HUBERT LAWS - Flute
JEAN-LUC PONTY - Violin
BILL SUMMERS - Percussion
MICHAEL THOMPSON - Guitar, Electric Guitar
JAMES EARL - Electric Bass
DENNIS CHAMBERS - Drums
TODD COCHRAN - Keyboards
RAMON BANDA - Percussion
GERRY BROWN - Drums
DOC POWELL - Guitar
STEVE HUNT - Keyboards
DARRYL JACKSON - Percussion
MUNYUNGO JACKSON - Percussion
ALPHONSO JOHNSON - Electric Bass
DERON JOHNSON - Keyboards
ABE LABORIEL - Electric Bass
ARMAND SABAL-LECCO - Guitar, Electric Bass, Piccolo, Programming, Background Vocals
JOHN "J.R." ROBINSON - Drums
PONCHO SANCHEZ - Conga
CARLOS VEGA - Drums
DOUG WEBB - Soprano Saxophone
PANCHO SANCHEZ - Conga
STEVE HUNT - Keyboards
GEORGE DELBARRIO - Conductor, String Arrangements

HOWARD HEWETT - Vocals, Background Vocals
LAURA ROBINSON - Background Vocals
ANJANI THOMAS - Background Vocals
ALEXIS ENGLAND - Background Vocals

DAN HUMANN - Engineer, Mixing
DAVID COLEMAN - Art Direction
ALLEN SIDES - Engineer
STEVE SYKES - Engineer, Mixing
CAROLINE GREYSHOCK - Photography
BRIAN GARDNER - Mastering

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Albums came less frequently from Stanley Clarke in the 1990s as film scores took up more and more of his time. Not only that, the ideas and functions of film music play a large role in East River Drive, where selections come as often as not in the form of cue-like vamps, as well as two actual themes from Clarke's scores for the films Poetic Justice and Boyz N the Hood. Oddly enough, Clarke's music benefits from his film immersion, for his compositional ideas are sharper and more sophisticated here, and he applies them to a range of electric music idioms. "Zabadoobeebe," "Illegal," and "I'm Home Africa" bear mild African influences, the elegant "Christmas In Rio" has a slight whiff of Brazil, and "Lords of the Low Frequencies" is an extraordinary slap-happy duel between Lord Clarke and fellow virtuoso Armand Sabal-Lecco. As before, Clarke gets help from some of his famous friends -- among them are Gerald Albright, George Howard, Hubert Laws, Jean-Luc Ponty, Poncho Sanchez and the inevitable George Duke -- and he most ably splits the string arranging tasks with George del Barrio. This is a mature statement from a most accomplished musician, who was still young at 42.

Richard S. Ginell, All-Music Guide
  

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