I Wanna Play for You

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  • The Clarke/Duke Project, Vol. 1
  • The Griffith Park Collection
  • Let Me Know You
  • The Griffith Park Collection 2: In Concert
  • The Clarke/Duke Project II
  • Time Exposure
  • Find Out!
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  • If This Bass Could Only Talk
  • 3
  • Passenger 57
  • East River Drive
  • Live at the Greek
  • Live in Montreux
  • Rite of Strings
  • Bleeding Hearts [Original Soundtrack]
  • Jazz Straight Up
  • 1, 2, To the Bass
  • Standards
  • The Toys of Men
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  • The Stanley Clarke Band
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Release Date

1979

Duration

01:04:32

Genre

Styles

Recording Date

September, 1977 - 1979

Recording Location

  • Calderone Theater
  • Chateau Recorders
  • Devonshire Sound Studios
  • Roxy Theater
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Stanley Clarke

I Wanna Play for You

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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. Clarke's writing remains strong and his tastes remain unpredictable, veering into rock, electronic music, acoustic jazz, even reggae in tandem with British rocker Jeff Beck. Clarke's excursion into disco, "Just a Feeling," is surprisingly and infectiously successful, thanks to a good bridge and George Duke's 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 album's 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 couldn't 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.

Track Listing

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke
6:15 SpotifyAmazon
2
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke
6:02 SpotifyAmazon
3
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke
5:50 SpotifyAmazon
4
Mike Garson
Stanley Clarke
5:42 SpotifyAmazon
5
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke
2:18 SpotifyAmazon
6
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke
1:47 SpotifyAmazon
7
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke
8:59 SpotifyAmazon
8
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke
2:34 Spotify
9
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke
3:26 SpotifyAmazon
10
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke
5:44 SpotifyAmazon
11
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke
8:08
12
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke
7:47 SpotifyAmazon
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