At the 52nd Monterey Jazz Festival, three-quarters of the stellar fusion band Return to Forever reunited. Hear Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and... The 52nd Monterey Jazz Festival in the fall of 2009 ...

Bassist cut his teeth with some of the legends of jazz music and later played in Return to Forever, the iconic fusion band of the 1970s led by Chick Corea. Stanley Clarke N*4Ever will perform Sunday ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Wolf & Rissmiller's Country Club, April 7, 1982. Walking forward to the front of the stage, producer and drummer Lenny White held a microphone to his lips to announce the members of the band. "I'd ...

Stanley Clarke is aware that not everyone has the opportunity to be on the cutting edge of a musical style. Bass player Clarke took advantage of his chance with Return to Forever, a quartet led by ...

Stanley Clarke has been an influential bassist ever since playing in Chick Corea's jazz-rock fusion group Return to Forever. Over more than 40 years since, he has focused mainly on rock, funk and film ...

Jazz bassist Stanley Clarke sits at the center of the room, six young musicians focused on him as they practice at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center on a recent afternoon. “So the ...

Stanley Clarke is in a reflective mood. He has to be, after all, since he’s hard at work on a big career retrospective box set that he hopes to have in stores by the summer. “It started out as a ...