From Guitar.com, a new interview with bassist, Stanley Clarke. Here's an excerpt:
Stanley Clarke Interview: School Days Revisited for Bass Legend
"'School Days' has come full circle for Stanley Clarke. The 1976 jazz rock hit long ago made the celebrated bassist a household name, this even after an already productive and successful stint in Return to Forever, the pioneering jazz fusion group he had put together with Chick Corea in 1972.
With his brand new album, Up, Clarke has rounded up a bunch of friends – old and new – to lay down tracks that move the focus from jazz to rock to funk to fusion and then back deeper into straight-ahead jazz again. Though he has long made a career of genre-hopping guest spots and collaborations, the unfamiliar may be surprised to find the likes of rockers Joe Walsh and Police drummer Stewart Copeland on the disc. Clarke even pulls in prog-jam cat and sometimes Gregg Allman sideman, guitarist Jimmy Herring, for a blistering remake of “School Days” that rivals the original."
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