Stanley Clarke - The Toys of Men
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Artist: Stanley ClarkeEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-10-16
Music Label: Heads Up
Soundtracks:
- Toys of Men: Draconian/Fear/Chaos/Cosmic Intervention/The Opening of th
- Come On
- Jerusalem
- Back in the Woods
- All Over Again
- Hmm Hmm
- Bad Asses
- Game
- Cancion de Sofia
- Bajo Negro
- Broski
- Ch?teauvallon 1972
- Bass Folk Song No. 6
Music reviews of The Toys of Men
Music Review: toys of men = joys in music
Rating: 5 Stars
this is such a wonderful, though nowadays altogether too infrequent offering from Stanley Clarke. Welcome and a pure pleasure. If I had any expectations of Stanley, they were met and exceeded. his sound has expanded over the years and that is a great sign that he has not sat and atrophied in his long period since his last album. I ordered and enjoyed this as soon as a sample hit my ears in a store.
It was a totally excellent choice along with S.M.V. If they were vinyl, I'd be wearing out the grooves enjoying myself.
Description of The Toys of Men
It has been somewhat of a frustrating run for fans of uber-bassist Stanley Clarke's legendary, genre-defining '70s work. After establishing himself as the world's premier four-string jazz-rock maestro with his work in Return to Forever and solo albums such as School Days, Clarke altered his focus by churning out middling commercial funk pop and soundtracks. They diluted his status as a talented musician whose fleet-fingered style and elaborate picking technique influenced a generation of bass players. But he's back now, with an anti-war-propelled set that is an encouraging and convincing return to form. The opening 11-minute, six-part suite, featuring fiery fiddle from the intriguingly named Mads Tolling, sounds like prime-era Mahavishnu Orchestra, and also highlights Clarke's frantic yet precise staccato technique on his instrument. It alone is worth the price of this disc, but the remaining dozen tracks emphasize Clarke's intentions to prove he's never lost his touch. He shifts between acoustic and electric settings, inserting stark solo and duo interludes that spotlight his prodigious talent between longer work-outs with his tight group. "Bad Asses," where he is accompanied only by drums, sizzles with thumb-numbing, lightning-hot funk and "Chateauvallon 1972 (Dedicated to Tony Williams)" finds Clarke in fusion territory again working a sizzling, dramatic slow riff as powerful and vital as anything he has done in decades. Long-time admirers now have an album that indisputably proves Stanley Clarke hasn't lost a step as the foremost bass player of his generation. --Hal HorowitzGeneral CDs
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