[1] I Wanna Play For You (S.Clarke) - 6:15
[2] Just A Feeling (S.Clarke) - 6:02
[3] The Streets Of Philadelphia (S.Clarke) - 5:50
[4] Together Again (Garson) - 5:42
[5] Blues For Mingus (S.Clarke) - 2:18
[6] Strange Weather (S.Clarke) - 1:47
[7] Quiet Afternoon (S.Clarke) - 8:59
[8] Rock 'N' Roll Jelly (S.Clarke) - 2:34
[9] Jamaican Boy (S.Clarke) - 3:26
[10] My Greatest Hits (S.Clarke) - 5:44
[11] School Days (S.Clarke) - 8:08
[12] Hot Fun-Closing (S.Clarke) - 7:47
STANLEY CLARKE - Acoustic & Electric Bass, Electric Guitar,
Keyboards, Oberheim, Organ, Piccolo Bass, Synthesizer, Talk Box, Vocals
JEFF BECK - Guitar, Electric Guitar
DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER - Vocals, Background Vocals
DARRYL BROWN - Cymbals, Drums
GERRY BROWN - Drums
CATHY CARSON - Vocals
BAYETE TODD COCHRAN - Arp 2600, Oberheim, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer
TODD COCHRAN - Keyboards
JUANITA CURIEL - Vocals
DAVID DELEON - Bass, Electric Bass
GEORGE DUKE - Keyboards, Piano, Electric & Grand Piano, Synthesizer
RONNIE FOSTER - Piano
STEVE GADD - Drums
MICHAEL GARSON - Fender Rhodes, Keyboards, Oberheim, Piano
MIKE GARSON - Fender Rhodes, Keyboards, Piano, Synthesizer
STAN GETZ - Tenor Saxophone
RAY GOMEZ - Guitar, Electric Guitar
AL HARRISON - Trumpet
FREDDIE HUBBARD - Flugelhorn
PHIL JOST - Keyboards, Organ
BOB MALACH - Tenor Saxophone, Trumpet
HARVEY MASON, Sr. - Drums
AIRTO MOREIRA - Percussion
GWEN OWENS - Vocals
LEE RITENOUR - Guitar, Electric Guitar
PERRY ROBINSON - Synthesizer
PETER ROBINSON - Keyboards
TOM SCOTT - Lyricon, Alto Saxophone
JAMES TINSLEY - Piccolo Trumpet, Trumpet
AL WILLIAMS - Baritone & Soprano Saxophone
ALFRED WILLIAMS - Saxophone
BAYETE TODD COCHRAN - Arp String Ensemble
MICHAEL GARSON - Arp String Ensemble
TONY LANE - Design
DAVID LEONARD - Engineer, Mixing
AIRTO MOREIRA - Executive Producer
BOB SEIDEMANN - Photography
ED THACKER - Engineer
1979 LP Epic 88331
1994 CD Epic 64295
1994 CS Epic 64295
1994 CD Nemperor JZ 35680
Clarke stretches his muscles and comes up with a mostly impressive,
polystylistic, star-studded double album (now on one CD) that
gravitates ever closer to the R&B mainstream. Clarke's writing
remains strong and his tastes remain unpredictable, veering into rock,
electronic music, acoustic jazz, even reggae in tandem with British
rocker Jeff Beck. Clarke's excursion into disco, "Just a Feeling," ais
surprisingly and infectiously successful, thanks to a good bridge and
George Duke's galvanizingly funky work on the Yamaha electric grand
piano (his finest moment with Clarke by far). The brief "Blues for
Mingus," a wry salute from one master bassist to another (Mingus died
about six months before this album's release), is a cool acoustic
breather for piano trio, and the eloquent Stan Getz can be detected,
though nearly buried under the garish vocals and rock-style mix, on
"The Streets of Philadelphia." Yet even the talented Clarke in full
creative flower couldn't quite fill a double set with new material, so
he has a tendency to reprise some of his old memorable riffs a lot, and
there are several energetic snapshots of his live band in action. In
its zeal to get this two-LP set onto one disc, Epic deleted three of
the original 15 tracks -- including at least one gem, the sizzling hard
rocker "All About" -- and scrambled the order of the remaining tunes.
Which is dumb, because the missing tracks only take up a bit less than
12 minutes of playing time, not enough to overload a 65-minute disc.
Hunt for the double-LP version if you can still play vinyl.