Exploding onto the jazz scene in 1971, Stanley Clarke has since collaborated with Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Joe Henderson, Pharaoh Saunders, Gil Evans, Stan Getz and Chick Corea. Clarke is the first bassist in history to launch a headline tour, selling out shows worldwide. Clarke’s artistry spans classical, jazz, R&B and pop idioms; he has earned an array of gold records for a variety of releases.
Hiromi first mesmerized the jazz community with her 2003 Telarc debut, Another Mind. The buzz started by her first album spread all the way back to her native Japan where Another Mind shipped gold and received the Recording Industry Association of Japan’s Jazz Album of the Year Award. The keyboardist and composer’s second release, Brain, won the Horizon Award at the 2004 Surround Music Awards, Swing Journal’s New Star Award, Jazz Life’s Gold Album, HMV Japan’s Best Japanese Jazz Album, and the Japan Music Pen Club’s Japanese Artist.
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