Stanley Clarke + Stewart Copeland, Jimmy Herring, Joe Walsh, others – Up (2014)
A welcome return to fusion, ‘Up’ finds Stanley Clarke going back to his genre-defying ways.
A welcome return to fusion, ‘Up’ finds Stanley Clarke going back to his genre-defying ways.
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