Jazz, Modern, World and Beyond…

In honor of the 10th show, I declared “let them eat cake” but in a nice way. This giraffe cake looks yummy and inviting. Her eyes just say “bite me”.

U.S. Army General (maybe not much longer) Stanley McChrystal didn’t eat cake with President Obama after the General and his staff stuck their necks out for a Rolling Stone story. McCrystal is shown here in Afghanistan sans helmet, stepping off a helicopter flown by a National Guard crew from Delaware, the home state of Vice President Joe “Bite Me” Biden.

Members of McCrystal’s entourage are rumored to be taking time out from their 15 minutes of fame to change the address on their magazine subscriptions to General Delivery at Thule Air Base , Greenland, APO AE 09704, where the only Special Ops they will be doing is gathering intel on the icebergs floating by.

There is no famine of music on this week’s show. You’ll sink your teeth into some tasty surfer licks and have a religious experience or two.

Thanks for listening!

Stanley Clarke plays bass. Like nobody’s business. Clarke’s recording career as a musician, producer and composer now spans across five decades with the release this week of The Stanley Clarke Band. We’ll play a track on Deep Three Radio #9.

Stanley reached out to his fans to weigh in on global warming by voice mail. “How’s The Weather Up There?” includes some of those messages. Some of the inspiration comes from his 1973 composition “After The Cosmic Rain”. Here’s Return to Nowhere performing the song for German TV.

Larry Graham of Sly & The Family Stone pioneered the funky lead and rhythm bass techniques Clarke adapted to his jazz/fusion style. They took the stage together in Japan in 1985 to lay down an informative and intense medley of “School Days” and “Sex Machine”.

Stanley fronted his own band at the 1977 Montreux Jazz Festival. This is “Hot Fun” live.

The late Gregory Hines hoofed it to Stanley’s bass playing in a 1993 talk show appearance. Host Arsenio Hall interviewed Stanley before the performance. The cult like woofing that Hall could drag out of the audience did not carry him through the talk show wars of the mid ’90s.

Japan’s piano sensation Hiromi joined drummer Lenny White to form The Stanley Clarke Trio on last year’s Jazz in the Garden. She’s featured in the 2010 band’s expanded lineup. Here she is injecting her personality into “Brain Training” for a Japanese morning show. Wake up already!