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Stanley 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. Clarkes writing remains strong and his tastes remain unpredictable veering into rock electronic music acoustic jazz even reggae in tandem with British rocker Jeff Beck. Clarkes excursion into disco Just a Feeling is surprisingly and infectiously successful thanks to a good bridge and George Dukes 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 albums 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 couldnt 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. -Richard S. Ginell Rovi. Artist Stanley Clarke. Genre Jazz. Release Date 10 May 1994. Attributes CD-R CD MOD. Discs 1. Country USA. Label Sony Mod (STQD) .
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