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School Days
Stanley Clarke

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Artist

Stanley
Clarke

Album

School
Days

Rating

Recording
Date

Jun
1976

Label

Epic

Time

37:01

Genre

Styles

Jazz

Fusion

Jazz-Rock

Jazz-Funk

Moods

Themes

Stylish

Street-Smart

Rollicking

Energetic

TGIF

Late
Night

Playful

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Review

by Richard S. Ginell

Every pro electric-bass player and their mothers wore
out the grooves of this record when it first came out,
trying to cop Clarke's speedy, thundering, slapped-thumb
bass licks. Yet ultimately, it was Clarke's rapidly
developing compositional skills that made this album so
listenable and so much fun for the rest of us, then and
now. The title track not only contributed a killer riff
to the bass vocabulary; it is a cunningly organized
piece of music with a well-defined structure. Moreover,
Clarke follows his calling card with two tunes that are
even more memorable — the sauntering ballad "Quiet
Afternoon" and an ebullient, Brazilian percussion-laced
number with a good string arrangement and a terrific
groove, "The Dancer." Clarke also brings out the standup
bass for a soulful acoustic dialogue with John
McLaughlin on "Desert Song." Evidently enthused by
their leader's material, David
Sancious (keyboards) and Raymond
Gomez (guitars) deliver some of their best solos on
records — and with George
Duke on hand on one cut, you hear some preliminary
flickerings of Clarke's ventures into the commercial
sphere. But at this point in time, Clarke was
triumphantly proving that it was possible to be both
good and commercial at the same time.

Tracks

Title

Composer

Time

1

School
Days

Clarke

7:51

2

Quiet
Afternoon

Clarke

5:09

3

The
Dancer

Clarke

5:28

4

Desert
Song

Clarke

6:56

5

Hot
Fun

Clarke

2:55

6

Life
Is Just a Game

Clarke

9:02

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Releases

Year

Type

Label

Catalog #

CD

Epic

468219

CD

Epic

EK-36975

CD

Columbia

36975

1976

LP

Nemperor

900

1990

CD

Columbia

36975

CS

Epic

PET-36975

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