In Concert: The Stanley Clarke Band featuring Hiromi

May 9, 2010 - PRLog -- Boston, MA--HT Productions presents The Stanley Clarke Band featuring Hiromi in concert Sunday, June 20 at 7:00 PM at Berklee Performance Center [136 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA 02116].  Tickets are on sale now at $50 [golden circle], $38 and $33 at The Berklee Performance Center Box office, at all Ticketmaster outlets, on line at Ticketmaster.com or by calling:  800-745-3000.  For more information, call:  617-747-2261 or visit www.berkleebpc.com.  Berklee Performance Center is wheelchair accessible.

A new Heads Up CD is on the way, due this June, and entitled simply, The Stanley Clarke Band and featuring the concert band: Hiromi [piano] with Ruslan [keyboards] and Ronald Bruner, Jr. [drums].  

Last year, Stanley Clarke and Hiromi presented the worldwide release of Jazz In The Garden (HUCD 3155) on Heads Up International, a division of Concord Music Group.  For his first straight-ahead acoustic jazz trio recording, Clarke assembled two brilliant collaborators at the top of their respective games: pianist Hiromi Uehara and drummer Lenny White.  The synergy resulting from this union made for one of the most refreshing Stanley Clarke recordings in recent years.

Exploding into the jazz world in 1971, Stanley Clarke was a lanky teenager from the Philadelphia Academy of Music. He arrived in New York City and immediately landed jobs with famous bandleaders such as Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Joe Henderson, Pharaoh Saunders, Gil Evans, Stan Getz, and a budding young pianist composer named Chick Corea.  Clarke then became the first bassist in history to headline tours, selling out shows worldwide, and have his albums certified gold.  The word “legend” was used to describe Stanley by the time he was 25 years old.

Clarke has won literally every major award available to a bass player: Grammy awards, Emmy awards, every readers’ poll out there, all the critics’ polls, gold and platinum records, walks of fame - you name it. He was Rolling Stone’s very first Jazzman of the Year, and bassist winner of Playboy’s Music Award for ten straight years.

Since her 2003 Telarc debut, Another Mind, keyboardist-composer Hiromi Uehara has electrified audiences and critics on both hemispheres with a creative energy that defies the conventional parameters of jazz and pushes musicianship and composition to unprecedented levels of complexity and sophistication.

The initial buzz – critical and commercial – triggered by Another Mind in North America traveled all the way back to her native Japan, where the album shipped gold (100,000 units) and received the Recording Industry Association of Japan’s (RIAJ) Jazz Album of the Year Award.  And yet, for as high-impact as Hiromi’s debut may have been, it was just the beginning of a fascinating musical journey that has continued to gather momentum in the years since.

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