Mike Clark (jazz musician)

Mike Clark ( born October 3, 1946 in Sacramento as Michael Jeffrey Clark ) is an American jazz and fusion drummer who was best known for his membership in Herbie Hancock Headhunters band ..

Mike Clark began at age five with the drums, taking lessons from his father; this took him early with jazz clubs. From the early 60s, he worked as a freelance musician in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1967 to 1971 at the trio of Vince Guard Aldi and 1971 with Woody Shaw.

Beginning of the 70s he also worked with Mike Nock, Eddie Henderson, Joe Henderson, Mose Allison and with its own formation, which also included Jack Walrath and Paul Jackson. In 1973 he became a member of the fusion band The Headhunters, which was led by Herbie Hancock. He remained until 1976, but was still working 1976/77 with him again. Clark's drumming is, inter alia, be heard in Hancock's album Thrust in the title "Actual Proof".

1977/78 he joined the British fusion band Brand X, in which he 1978/80 on the drums to Phil Collins alternated. 1978/79 he played in the Bay Area with Eddie Henderson and Julian Priester. In 1980 he moved to New York, where he formed a band with Walrath to 1982. After a tour of Japan with Wayne Shorter and Hancock (1982 ), he played in Jack Wilkins Trio and worked as a freelance musician; Clark worked among others in the course of his career with artists such as Chet Baker, Fred Wesley, Les Claypool and Charlie Hunter.

Clark worked as a music teacher at the Drummers Collective in New York.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Give the Drummer Some ( Stash Records in 1982, with Jack Walrath, Ricky Ford, Neal Kirkwood, Jack Wilkins, Chip Jackson)
  • Mike Clark / Paul Jackson: The Funk Stops Here ( Enja, 1992)
  • Mike Clark and friends: Jim Payne 's New York radio ( Grammavision, 1994)
  • Master Drummers: Volume Three ( Ubiquity, 1995)
  • Summertime ( Jazz Key Music, 1999)
  • Actual Proof ( Platform Records, 2000)
  • Mike Clark, Paul Jackson / Marc Wagnon: Conjunction ( Buckyball, 2002)
  • Blueprints of Jazz: Vol 1 (Talking House Records, 2009)
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