School Days (album)

Infobox Album
Name = School Days
Type = studio
Artist = Stanley Clarke


Released =
Recorded = June 1976
Genre = Jazz fusion
Jazz funk
Jazz rock
Length = 37:18
Label = Epic
Producer = Stanley Clarke, Ken Scott
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wzfwxqtgldse link]
Last album = "Journey to Love"
This album = "School Days"
(1976)
Next album = "I Wanna Play for You" "School Days" is the fourth album by fusion jazz bassist Stanley Clarke.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Stanley Clarke

# "School Days" – 7:51
# "Quiet Afternoon" – 5:09
# "The Dancer" – 5:27
# "Desert Song" – 6:56
# "Hot Fun" – 2:55
# "Life Is Just A Game" – 9:00

Personnel

*Stanley Clarke - electric bass guitar, acoustic bass, piccolo bass guitar, acoustic piano, vocals, handbells, gong, chimes, humming, producer, composer
*Raymond Gomez - electric guitar on "School Days", "The Dancer", "Hot Fun"
*John McLaughlin - acoustic guitar on "Desert Song"
*Icarus Johnson - electric and acoustic guitars on "Life Is Just A Game"
*David Sancious - keyboards, mini-moog synthesiser, organ on tracks 1-3, electric guitar on track 5
*George Duke - keyboards on "Life Is Just A Game"
*Milt Holland - percussion, congas, triangle on "The Dancer" and "Desert Song"
*Steve Gadd - drums on "Quiet Afternoon" and "Hot Fun"
*Billy Cobham - drums, moog 1500 on "Life Is Just A Game"
*Gerry Brown - drums, handbells on "School Days" and "The Dancer"
*String Section:David Campbell, Dennis Karmazyn, Lya Stern, Thomas Buffum, Janice Adele Gower, Marcia Van Dyke, Karen Jones, Robert Dubow, Ronald Strauss, Rollice Dale, Gordon Marron, John Wittenberg, Marilyn Baker
*Brass Section:Jack Nimitz, Buddy Childers, Lew McCreary, Dalton Smith, Robert Findley, Gary Grant, George Bohanon, William Peterson, Stuart Blumberg, Albert Aarons

Production

*Lynn Dreese Breslin – Art Direction
*Bob Defrin – Art Direction
*Ken Scott – Producer, Engineer, Remixing
*Jerry Solomon – Assistant Engineer
*Ed Thacker – Assistant Engineer