And the Welcome everybody to the soda jaker on songwriting podcast. is Brian, here is ever with Simon and joining

us for episode 116 is a preeminent Grammy-winning electric and acoustic bassist recording

artist and composer who exploded onto the jazz fusion scene of the 1970s

dazzling all and sundry with his blistering based chops and formidable

compositional skills later expanding into movie and television scoring.

We're honored to welcome the amazing Stanley Clark to the show.

This interview was recorded at Gorilla in Manchester back in July 2017 during Stanley's

UK tour. It was actually touching go whether it would happen because Stanley

seemed to be having some kind of visa issue with his keyboard player, but at the

last minute we managed to make our way into Stanley's dressing room and

record this chat. However, the sound check was going on at the time so if you do pick up any

noise in the background that's why. We had a similar ambience for the Marcus Miller interview didn't we?

must be a bass player thing. Nevertheless, we had a really fun and illuminating chat with Stanley and we think you're going to dig it.

It was a great personal thrill for me, in particular to meet him being a bassist myself.

I mean, along with guys like Jack O

Pastoria, Larry Graham and Lewis Johnson, he's really one of the people

responsible for popularizing the electric bass as an up-fronts lead

instrument isn't he? I think if there was a hall of bass players at Disneyland it would certainly feature an animatronic Stanley

Stanamatronic. Very nice. I'm especially fond of his mid-70s trio of albums, Stanley Clark, Journey to Love and

School days. And what I love about them is they're not just showcases for Stanley's distinctive voice

on the instruments and undoubted technical skill.

They're also extremely melodic and musical and tastefully arranged.

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