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Jazz Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This
Stanley Clarke is one of my favorite jazz musicians, and the opportunity to see him at Tupelo Music Hall could not be overlooked.
Stanley Clarke
We had no idea what band Stanley would have with him that night, but it did not matter – Stanley is fabulous in any iteration!
Beka Gochiashvili, Stanley, and Mike Mitchell (l to r)
Bass Geniuses at Work
In a word, WOW!
the only shot I got with all five musicians
This evening’s extraordinary concert consisted of four bass geniuses and a drummer. Whoever thinks that it would have been a boring show would be quite wrong.
The four bassists were Victor Wooten, who made his name with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones; Steve Bailey, the chair of the bass department at the Berklee College of Music; John Patitucci, who made his name with Chick Corea’s Electric Band; and Victor Bailey, who replaced Jaco Pastorius in Weather Report. Read the rest of this entry
suze reviews the blues 