Stanley Clarke started his career back in the early seventies when he landed jobs with Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Gil Evans, Stan Getz, and a budding young pianist composer named Chick Corea. Together with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke formed the jazz fusion orchestra Return To forever and gained a lot of popularity with this band. From there on things became only better for Mr Clarke who single handed raised the interested in Bass playing in Jazz music and released a handful of solo albums of which some contains hit singles  (this is Jazz, you know).

Today Stanley Clarke is back and comes with a powerful Jazz album featuring Lenny White (also from Return to forever) and piano wonder Hiromi.  Stanley Clark is really top performing here and returned to the basics by trading in his electric bass for an acoustic one.  You can easily say that Jazz in the garden is The rhythm section of Return To Forever + Hiromi!  The latter  a fine hard bop & avant-garde pianist that has the looks as well contributes on this album with two originals! Sicilian blue  & Brain Training are both from here hands and she even helped writing on Global Tweak. Stanley Clarke hands over three originals as well and the rest of the tunes are fine renditions of great masters!  From Joe Henderson, to the Duke over Miles Davis and back Jazz In the Garden is filled with 12 interesting tunes that brings many lovers of Jazz music in ecstasy.