''The Toys of Men'' is the 27th studio album by

jazz fusion Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, ...

bassist A bassist (also known as a bass player or bass guitarist) is a musician who plays a Bass (instrument), bass instrument such as a double bass (upright bass, contrabass, wood bass), bass guitar (electric bass, acoustic bass), synthbass, keyboar ...

Stanley Clarke. It was released on October 16, 2007 via Heads Up International.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Stanley Clarke; except where noted. Tracks 4, 6, 10, 11 and 13 are solos by Stanley Clarke on acoustic bass. # "The Toys of Men" – 11:14 # "Come On" (

Ronald Bruner Jr. Ronald Ray Bruner Jr. (born October 5, 1982) is an American jazz drummer, composer and producer. He has played with hardcore punk/crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies. Bruner was part of the band that received a Grammy Award for Best Contem ...

, Stanley Clarke,

Ruslan Sirota Ruslan Sirota is a Grammy Award winning pianist, composer, and producer. Early life Ruslan was born in Uman, Ukraine to a Jewish family on November 4, 1980. His father, Yefim, who was an active local guitarist, introduced him to music at an early ...

Mads Tolling Mads Tolling (born July 5, 1980) is a Danish-American violinist, violist, composer and two-time Grammy Award-Winner. As a former member of the Turtle Island Quartet and bassist Stanley Clarke’s band, Tolling is today leading his own projects ...

) – 2:59 # "Jerusalem" (

) – 6:13 # "Back in the Woods" – 1:24 # "All Over Again" (Stanley Clarke, Esperanza Spalding) – 5:04 # "Hmm Hmm" – 1:53 # "Bad Asses" – 5:04 # "Game" – 3:18 # "La Cancion de Sofia" – 3:07 # "El Bajo Negro" – 7:45 # "Broski" – 1:56 # "Châteauvallon 1972 (dedicated to Tony Williams)" – 5:25 # "Bass Folk Song No. 6" – 2:52

Personnel

;Musicians * Stanley Clarke – acoustic and electric bass,

piccolo bass A piccolo bass is either an electric bass or acoustic double bass which has been tuned to a higher frequency, usually one octave higher than conventional bass tuning. This allows bass players to use higher registers during soloing while retaining ...

, tenor bass,

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–

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

(tracks 1, 2, 9) * Jef Lee Johnson –

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

(tracks 1, 2, 8) * Tomer Shtein –

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

(track 1) *

Michael Landau Michael Christopher Landau (born June 1, 1958) is an American musician, audio engineer, and record producer. He is a session musician and guitarist who has played on many albums since the early 1980s with Boz Scaggs, Minoru Niihara, Joni Mitch ...

– acoustic and electric guitar (track 3) *

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piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

(tracks 1, 9 and 12),

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s (tracks 1–3, 5) * Phil Davis – keyboards (track 8) *

Ronald Bruner, Jr. Ronald Ray Bruner Jr. (born October 5, 1982) is an American jazz drummer, composer and producer. He has played with hardcore punk/crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies. Bruner was part of the band that received a Grammy Award for Best Cont ...

–

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

(tracks 1, 2, 5, 7–9, 12) * Paulinho Da Costa –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

(track 9) * Esperanza Spalding – vocals (tracks 1, 5) ;Production * Producer: Stanley Clarke * Executive producer: Dave Love * Recording engineers: Gerry "The Gov" Brown and Ed Thacker * Mastering: Bernie Grundman * Album design: Robert Hoffman * Cover photo: Armando Carlos

References

External links

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