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Article: Stanley Clarke: His bass is hit; Jazz legend plays at Blues Alley.(ARTS & CULTURE)(MUSIC)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 3, 2005
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Byline: Stefan Sullivan, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
From an admittedly informal poll of jazz club-goers, when the bassist takes a solo turn after things have been bopping along so nicely, eyes wander toward the ceiling, the girl at the next table, or the exit. It's a problem of pregnant pauses, those plucking stabs at profundity, the too-low registry for the human ear, and the limits of that thick-stringed instrument. It's a moment in a performance when the oxygen leaves the room, and you long for the horn player to wail back in on the motif.
But with jazz bass legend Stanley Clarke in the room, as he was at Blues Alley on Thursday night, you have ...