SEP 5-8 | 2024-25 Season Opening Week
Miner Auditorium
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Original show description below.
Bassist, composer, and 2022 NEA Jazz Master Stanley Clarke is a peerless innovator and a five-time GRAMMY winner who brought new prominence to the electric bass in jazz and was a primary developer of jazz fusion as a founding member of the iconic band Return to Forever with the late Chick Corea. He returns to open the 2024-25 Season in duet with piano virtuoso Hiromi.
After the triumph of his 2010 debut Water and follow-up Be Good, Porter broke through to mainstream stardom with his Blue Note debut Liquid Spirit, winning the 2013 GRAMMY for Best Jazz Vocal Album. He repeated the GRAMMY and chart success of Liquid Spirit with 2016’s Take Me to the Alley and has released a string of highly personal projects including 2017's Nat “King” Cole & Me, 2020’s All Rise, and his most recent session, 2023’s Christmas Wish, offering Porter’s inimitable takes on beloved holiday classics.
Raised in the hardscrabble city of Bakersfield, the budding vocalist grew up with seven siblings who all sang and worked in their mother’s skid row mission. Growing up around rollicking tent revivals offered ideal training for his future career as a master musical storyteller. Porter brings the same soul-stirring authority to jazz settings, revealing powerful truths with heart and grace. Don’t miss this season highlight performance.
Bassist, composer, and 2022 NEA Jazz Master Stanley Clarke returns to open the 2024-25 Season in duet with piano virtuoso Hiromi — two musicians possessed of a kindred musicality, heart, and soul.
Sep 5: There will be a pre-show Leaders Circle Lounge. Check back for registration information.
Stanley Clarke stands as one of the most facile, technically brilliant instrumentalists in modern jazz.
columbia daily tribune
Stanley Clarke stands as one of the most facile, technically brilliant instrumentalists in modern jazz.
columbia daily tribune
Personnel
Stanley Clarke electric and acoustic bass
Hiromi piano
One of the most revered electric and acoustic bassists in the genre
Detroit Metro Times on Stanley Clarke
Personnel
Stanley Clarke electric and acoustic bass
Hiromi piano
One of the most revered electric and acoustic bassists in the genre
Detroit Metro Times on Stanley Clarke
Watch & Listen
Stanley Clarke (featuring Hiromi)
Labyrinth
Stanley Clarke (featuring Hiromi)
Someday My Prince Will Come
Stanley Clarke (featuring Hiromi)
Labyrinth
Stanley Clarke (featuring Hiromi)
Someday My Prince Will Come