MAGNETS! will be appearing on March 22 @ 9 pm at the WILLIAMSBURG MUSIC CENTER 367 Bedford Ave ... corner
South 5th Street Brooklyn - the club is under the Williamsburg Bridge overpass--- Tel number 718 384 1654....www.wmcjazz.org Accessible by train..take the L to Bedford Ave and walk to S 5th or M J or Z to Marcy and walk toward East River onto Bedford Ave
Before you go any further KNOW that I am ANTI-WAR and PRO- WORLD
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UNFORTUNATELY THIS HUMANITARIAN WASPOISONED
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Biography
Queens New Yorker Kim Clarke is a multifaceted bassist, composer, website developer,festival co-producer and educator. She performs alternately on the Acoustic Bass, Electric Upright and four and five-stringed Electric Bass Guitar as the situation demands.
Originally a self- taught electric bass player Kim was given a French bow by a fellow CCNY classmate Jazz guitarist Rodney Jones. 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: studying with Ron Carter , Lisle Atkinson and Buster Williams. Ms Clarke is also a long-time student of the Barry Harris Workshop and a member of Harris' Jazz Cultural Theatre's house band for the famed Art Blakey Breakfast Jam. At Jazzmobile she studied with Jimmy Heath , Jimmy Owens, Lisle Atkinson, John Stubblefield and at CCNY John Lewis , Ed Summerlin and Mauricio Smith.
Kim 's musical tour experience spans from Guyana , South America through the West and East Coasts of the United States , Canada, Japan and Pakistan. She however has traveled most extensively in Western Europe. In 1981 she embarked upon what was to become a 22 year tour affiliation with trombonist Joseph Bowie and his avant-jazz funk unit Defunkt ;
circa 1983
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circa 2007
DEFUNKT DOWNTOWN IN THE 80'S(ABOVE)
: FEATURING JOE BOWIE,JOHN MULKERIN, RONNY DRAYTON, BILL BICKFORD , KENNY MARTIN AND KIM CLARKE
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a powerful mixed idiom group which wowed audiences from Iceland to Istanbul.
Click to hear short sample of keyboardist Adam Klipple and Kim jamming on tour with Defunkt .
She performed on 17 Defunkt CD's and is listed with them on Ivan Bartowski's Jazz Family Tree Map, 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.
NOVEMBER 2006 Issue (click)
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, Kit McClure Big Band , Robert Palmer , Defunkt , Rachel Z Trio, Bill Bickfords "Bigfood", Wallace Roney and Cindy Blackman Quartet, Oliver Lake and Jump Up, James Blood Ulmer Experience, Jack Mc Duff Quartet, Charles Davis Quintet, Rodney Kendricks Quartet, and local performances with: Harold Ousley, Jimmy Heath , Steve Coleman, Lester Bowie, Andy Bey, Nona Hendryx,Louis Hayes, Gerald Hayes, the late Lionel Hampton, Candido, Patato, Mario Rivera,Arturo O'Farrill,Little Jimmy Scott, Dr. Billy Taylor, Olu Dara, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Dakota Staton , Gracian Moncur, the late Art Blakey, Philly Joe Jones, Marylou Williams, Sharon Freeman, Sheila Jordan,Jessica Cleaves, Geri Allen, Vanessa Rubin , Cassandra Wilson, Fievre Latina, Adela Dalto, poets Ntozake Shange and Trazana Beverly, dancers Tina Pratt and Roxanne Butterfly, and rapper/actress Queen Latifah.
In 1997 she and a good friend Rob Scheps formed a group MAGNETS! which began its touring life in Portland, Oregon . In 2000 the band recorded MAGNETS! Live at the Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle which Kim co-produced with long-time Defunkt bandmate, trumpeter John Mulkerin.br
Ms Clarke performs also in educational workshops with The Napoleon Revels -Bey Jazz and Tap Programs as well as Miki D and Friends " Dance Rhythm Dance " Programs .These groups visit and bring Jazz to New York Area Grade and Middle Schools .
She has also taught at Boys Harbor (NY),Guitar Institute of Technology (London), Feierwerke Jazztage und Blues Workshop(Munich), 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.
In 2003/04 /05/ 06 and 07 Kim co-produced the LADY GOT CHOPS Women's Month Jazz Festival with the owners of The Jazz Cafe, Lillithe Myers and her daughter Tiecha Merritt. A 2004 Jimi Hendrix Tribute tour which featured Swiss nationals :guitar virtuoso Christy Doran, popular vocalist Erika Stucky ,acclaimed drummer Fredy Studer yeilded the cd:
"JIMI" .
Kim had the honor of a lifetime to perform with the Ghetto Fighters though their good friend guitarist Andre Lasalle. Among the performers were harmonica legend Paul Caruso,guitarists: Cornell Dupree, Johnny Winter, Leon Hendrix, Larry Coryell, David Honeyboy Edwards, drummers Buddy Miles and Lenny White and bassists:Chuck Rainey, Harvey Brooks and Victor Bailey.
ENDORSEMENTS
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MAGNETS! AT MYSPACE
YE OLDE MYSPACE PAGE
NEW MAGNETS CD REVIEW!
OLD SCHOOL DEFUNKT CLIPS@ ARTS DIRECT
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THE JAZZ PHOTO PAGE 1
THE JAZZ PHOTO PAGE 2
THE JAZZ PHOTO PAGE3
presenting the
5th Annual LADY GOT CHOPS WOMENS MONTH FESTIVAL
LADY GOT CHOPS WOMENS MONTH FESTIVAL ARCHIVE CALENDARS 2003-06
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MY COUSIN IDA IS MENTIONED HERE: BIOCHEMIST IDA OWENS
CONGRATULATIONS COUZ!!!
CONGRATULATIONS ALSO TO A GREAT YEAR STARTING FOR THE SEATTLE SUPERSONICS TO MY COUSIN CHRIS
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SOUL- PATROL RADIO INTERVIEW OF BUDDY MILES AND PHOTO WEBSITE FROM HENDRIX @ BB KINGS CONCERT NOV 27 2006
