Artist: Stanley Clarke
Album: Original Album Classics
Genre: Fusion, Jazz-Funk
Label: Epic
Released: 2007
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue)
Tracklist:
- CD1 - Stanley Clarke (1974)
- Vulcan Princess
- Yesterday Princess
- Lopsy Lu
- Power
- Spanish Phases for Strings & Bass
- Life Suite, Pts. 1-4
- CD2 - Journey to Love (1975)
- Silly Putty
- Journey to Love
- Hello Jeff
- Song to John, Pt. 1
- Song to John, Pt. 2
- Concerto for Jazz/Rock Orchestra, Pts. 1-4
- CD3 - School Days (1976)
- School Days
- Quiet Afternoon
- The Dancer
- Desert Song
- Hot Fun
- Life Is Just a Game
- CD4 - Modern Man (1978)
- Opening Statement
- He Lives On
- More Hot Fun
- Slow Dance
- Interlude: A Serious Occasion
- Got to Find My Own Place
- Dayride
- Interlude: It's What She Didn't Say
- Modern Man
- Interlude: A Relaxed Occasion
- Rock & Roll Jelly
- Closing Statement
- CD5 - Clarke/Duke Project (1981)
- Wild Dog
- Louie Louie
- Sweet Baby
- I Just Want to Love You
- Never Judge a Cover by Its Book
- Let's Get Started
- Winners
- Touch and Go
- Finding My Way
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What this import collection does, quite simply, is package Stanley Clarke's arguably best-known and best-selling studio records for Epic/Columbia, beginning with his debut for the label in 1974. The other records here -- all of which have very solid tracks on them but also have some real filler -- are Journey to Love (1975), School Days (1976), Modern Man (1978) and the first Clarke/Duke Project album with George Duke (1981). The decision to leave off the live record, which was a best seller, or even the minor hit "I Wanna Play for You" from 1976, is a curious one, simply because the context remains more fusion than funk/disco. Given the mastering and pressings, these are solid sounding sets -- others in the series include offerings by Mahavishnu Orchestra and Duke Ellington, to name just two -- and the price tag is quite modest as well. Still, unless one is a real fan (who would presumably have these titles already anyway) it is curious as to who on these shores would even consider them.