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Kim A. Clarke
New York's own Kim Clarke is a multifaceted bassist, composer, website developer and educator. She performs alternately on the Acoustic Bass, Electric Upright and four and five-stringed Electric Bass Guitar as the situation demands. Her electric Bass playing has been described as soulful, funky, rich & tight. She hold B.A.'s in Communications and Music from City College and Long Island University respectively, and is a 3- time recipient of the coveted N E A Jazz Study Fellowship. Ms Clarke is also a long-time student of the Barry Harris Workshop and member of Harris' Jazz Cultural Theatre's house band for the famed Art Blakey Breakfast Jam. Kim 's musical tour experience spans from Guyana ,South America through the West and East Coasts of the United States , and touches Canada, Japan ,Russia,China & Pakistan. She however has traveled most extensively in Western Europe. In 1981 she embarked upon what was to become a 40 year tour affiliation with trombonist Joseph Bowie and his avant-jazz funk unit Defunkt ; a powerful mixed idiom group which wowed audiences from Iceland to Istanbul. She performed on 23 Defunkt CD's gaining kudos as "nearly the funkiest bass player in NY",mention in several articles and videos by Red Hot Chili Peppers and having been a "whiz bassist" "in killer form" , compared with such funky bass Icons as Bootsy Collins. Defunkt's mention in Ivan Bartowski's Jazz Family Tree Map is considered a supreme honor. Ms Clarke's press exposure also includes 1990 entry in the Who's Who In the Performing Arts,, Bass Player Magazine, Guitar Player Magazine, Germany's Jazzdimensions Online Magazine, a number of European magazines and several books on Women in Jazz. She also was photographed in the late 1980's historic Jazz Musicians on the Roof Project and was one of the Michael Locker's New York Jazz Musicians Project in 2002. As an Acoustic bassist she traveled most notably with the late Joe Henderson Quartet (1986-7) throughout Europe. Internationally she is noted as "at home in the Ron Carter School of HardBop", "a dynamic Woman in Jazz who supported the intense rhythm of the Henderson group with unsuspected vitality and melodic solo passages..." Over the years Kim has also toured with international artists such as: George Gruntz , Annie Whitehead, Christy Doran, Marilyn Mazur, and Ursula Dudziak. Her experiences include tours with the National Black Theatre, Yusef Lateef Quartet, Teri Thornton Trio, Bertha Hope Trio, Robert Palmer , Kit McClure Big Band, Defunkt , Rachel Z Trio, Bigfood, Wallace Roney and Cindy Blackman Quartet, Oliver Lake and Jump Up, James Blood Ulmer Experience, Jack Mc Duff Quartet, Rodney Kendricks Quartet, and local performances with: Harold Ousley, Jimmy Heath , Steve Coleman, Lester Bowie, Andy Bey, Louis Hayes, Gerald Hayes, the late Lionel Hampton, Candido, Patato, Little Jimmy Scott, Dr.
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9th Annual Lady Got Chops Women's History Month Music Festival
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Kim A. Clarke
9TH ANNUAL LADY GOT CHOPS WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH MUSIC FESTIVAL 2011 All 5c events are $10 plus 6 food/drink minimum per person per set MARCH 1 SHRINE 2271 ADAM CLAYTON POWELL Kim Clarke Duo $10 MARCH 2 no cover Bowery Wine Co 13 E First St. NYC Jan Leder and Janice Friedman MARCH 2 $10 5C CULTURAL CENTER & CAFÉ 68 AvC LADY GOT CHOPS UNPLUGGED SERIES Lisa ...
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7th Annual Lady Got Chops Women's Month Jazz Festival
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The 7th Annual LADY GOT CHOPS Women's Month Jazz Festival The Jazz Spot Cafe (aka the Jazz) 179 Marcus Garvey Boulevard (between Kosciuszko St. and DeKalb Ave.) Brooklyn, NY 11221
The LADY GOT CHOPS Women's Month Jazz Festival is co-produced by The Jazz (aka Jazz Spot a cozy jazz cafe owned by an African American mother daughter team) and conceptualist/web manager, bassist Kim Clarke
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Re:MAGNETS! ARTIST PRESS ITEMS “The band splendidly dawns at harmonizing inwardly through the motions and the tracks, conceived fluently by bass, drums and saxophone each contributing a cutting tempo thoroughly annotated circa gorgeous piano setting the stage for a gradual exacerbation until the piece blows up into a testy funky-bop. It's a rattling devour. “Too Much Fun” is the acute point of this delectable album.” Dr. Ana Isabel Ordonez - Jazzreview.com “MAGNETS!..batted kinetic energy back and forth like a steel- tipped badminton birdie...No ordinary 4/4 Funk collective....A made in heaven marriage of Funkadelics groove and the slippery melody and intricate rhythms of Weather Report at its most aggressive."” Bill Smith - Willamette Week “Clarke is a composer to be reconed with regardless of gender...MAGNETS!..Funk it up or got Afro-Avante angry,acid jazz,bubbly humor they do it on the drop of a dime"..” Mark Von Bergen - Jazz Journal Live at the Bean “Magnets! Review De eerlijkheid gebiedt ons te vermelden dat ook bassiste Kim Clarke zelf een eigen, overigens steengoed, jazzkwartet heeft, dat luistert naar de naam Magnets!
Primary Instrument
Bass, acoustic
Willing to teach
Beginner to advanced
Clinic/Workshop Information
Ms Clarke has participated in educational workshops with The Napoleon Revels -Bey Rhythm Kings and Jazz and Tap Programs over the past five years, visiting and bringing Jazz to New York Area Grade and Middle Schools and libraries. She has also taught at Boys Harbor (NY),Guitar Institute of Technology (London), 2 weeks at Feierwerke Jazztage und Blues Workshop(Munich),and with Rob Scheps at: Bowdoin College (Maine) Portland State University, Reed College, Columbia Basin College, Central Washington University, Cornish College for the Arts and Whitman Colleges in Washington and Oregon.