“Behold Stanley Clarke King of Funk ‘n’ Roll.”
David Weiss, LA Herald Examiner

“A little over 50 years since his solo debut, Clarke reminds the audience that there are still new ways to be dazzled by the innovative and solid fullness of his instrument.”
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Stanley Clarke N•4Ever

In definitive innovator fashion, jazz legend Stanley Clarke reimagines the genre with his 2025 double album Last Train to Sanity, which he created as a gift for his fans. Last Train to Sanity marks the bass player-band leader-composer-arranger-producer’s latest studio project, encompassing music Clarke has been sharing around the world with his newest band Stanley Clarke N•4EVER. 

Originally formed out of a desire to pay tribute to Clarke’s longtime friend and collaborator Chick Corea, 4EVER has quickly become a fusion force all its own, furthering the tradition of cultivating the cutting edge. True to the evolution of jazz fusion, 4EVER brings a powerful combination of jazz harmony and improvisation with rock, funk, R&B, hip-hop and electronic music influences.

Akin to Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, Last Train boasts a personnel list of jazz’s next wave of heavy hitter virtuosos, including standout performances by saxophonist-composer Emilio Modeste, guitarist Colin Cook, and Herbie Hancock Competition winner Jahari Stampley, as well as drummer Jeremiah Collier, piano virtuoso Beka Gochiashvili, bassist Armand Sabal-Lecco, tabla master Salar Nader, and violin virtuoso Evan Garr. Under Clarke’s masterful leadership, Last Train to Sanity traverses the awe-inspiring terrain of Stanley’s vast musical universe. 

Last Train to Sanity will be released on two CDs and vinyls, with a deluxe package that features collectors‘ items including a large format art booklet with liner notes. Created as a gift for his fans, the record will also be released in conjunction with an exclusive coffee-table book filled with rare clippings, photographs, and stories from Stanley’s illustrious journey in music to date.

Stanley Clarke Bio

Four-time Grammy Award Winner Stanley Clarke has attained “living legend” status during his over 50-year career as a bass virtuoso. He is the first bassist in history who doubles on acoustic and electric bass with equal ferocity and the first jazz-fusion bassist ever to headline tours, selling out shows worldwide. A veteran of over 40 albums, he won the 2011 Best Contemporary Jazz Album Grammy Award for The Stanley Clarke Band. Clarke co-founded the seminal fusion group Return to Forever with Chick Corea and Lenny White. In 2012 Return to Forever won a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Forever.

Clarke’s creativity has been recognized and rewarded in every way imaginable. In 2022 Clarke was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts as one of its four new Jazz Master honorees. This is the highest honor that the United States bestows on jazz artists. He was Rolling Stone’s very first Jazzman of the Year and bassist winner of Playboy’s Music Award for ten straight years. Clarke was honored with Bass Player Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award and is a member of Guitar Player Magazine’s “Gallery of Greats.” In 2011 he was honored with the highly prestigious Miles Davis Award at the Montreal Jazz Festival for his entire body of work. Clarke has won Downbeat Magazine’s Reader’s and Critics Poll for Best Electric Bass Player for many years. In September 2016 he became a part of the permanent collection displayed at the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington DC.

An accomplished film and TV composer of well over 70 projects, his credits include Boyz N The Hood, the Tina Turner biopic What’s Love Got To Do With It, Romeo Must Die, The Transporter and Best Man Holiday. He has garnered three Emmy Nominations and a BMI Award for his scoring. In 2014 Clarke was invited to become a member of the exclusive Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

Born in Philadelphia, Clarke has been a constant force of nature in American music since the early 1970s with the success of the jazz-fusion group Return To Forever. That accomplishment gave way to a number of extremely successful solo albums for Clarke. Along the way, he has collaborated with Quincy Jones, Stan Getz, Art Blakey, Paul McCartney, Jeff Beck, Keith Richards, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, The Police, Herbie Hancock and many more, and has shared the stage with Bob Marley and Miles Davis.

He believes in giving back to help young musicians hone their skills. He and his wife Sofia established The Stanley Clarke Foundation eighteen years ago, which offers scholarships to talented young musicians.