Santa Fe MUSIC Collective
Music Café Series
Is Honored to Present
MIKE CLARK
MIKE CLARK - DRUMS
MICHAEL OLIVOLA - BASS
BRIAN BENNETT - PIANO
JUNE 19th - THURSDAY
MUSEUM HILL CAFE
Doors Open at 6:00pm / Concert Starts to 7:00pm
TICKETS: $25.00 / $20.00 for SFMC members
RESERVATIONS AND INFO: 505-983-6820
MICHAEL OLIVOLA - BASS
BRIAN BENNETT - PIANO
JUNE 19th - THURSDAY
MUSEUM HILL CAFE
Doors Open at 6:00pm / Concert Starts to 7:00pm
TICKETS: $25.00 / $20.00 for SFMC members
RESERVATIONS AND INFO: 505-983-6820
MIKE CLARK gained worldwide recognition as one of America’s foremost jazz and funk drummers while playing with the Headhunters band headed by Herbie Hancock in the early 1970’s. Mike became known as a major innovator through his incisive playing on Hancock’s album ‘Thrust’ (1974), and particularly the song “Actual Proof”, which is often cited as one of the finest examples of the linear funk style of drumming. This has garnered Clark an international cult following.
At the tail end of the 1970‘s and in 1980, shortly before moving to New York City, Mike did a short but remarkable stint with Brand X, the acclaimed British fusion band founded by Phil Collins, doing two tours and recording their seminal albums ‘Do They Hurt?’ and ‘Product’.
Clark has also performed with many top musicians from the worlds of jazz and funk, including Chet Baker, Vince Guaraldi, Fred Wesley, Michael Wolff, Les Claypool, and Charlie Hunter. Clark is also known as one of the most sampled drummers in contemporary music. His beats have appeared on records by Prince, NWA, De La Soul, and Janet Jackson, among others.
“He’s a great jazz drummer—and he hasn’t lost any of the stuff that he brought from Oakland. So now he's totally free to do both, and he does. The solo he played on the album Thrust, on the song “Actual Proof,” is
one of the best drum solos on any of my albums. So many people have remarked about that solo, saying, Incredible”
- Herbie Hancock
At the tail end of the 1970‘s and in 1980, shortly before moving to New York City, Mike did a short but remarkable stint with Brand X, the acclaimed British fusion band founded by Phil Collins, doing two tours and recording their seminal albums ‘Do They Hurt?’ and ‘Product’.
Clark has also performed with many top musicians from the worlds of jazz and funk, including Chet Baker, Vince Guaraldi, Fred Wesley, Michael Wolff, Les Claypool, and Charlie Hunter. Clark is also known as one of the most sampled drummers in contemporary music. His beats have appeared on records by Prince, NWA, De La Soul, and Janet Jackson, among others.
“He’s a great jazz drummer—and he hasn’t lost any of the stuff that he brought from Oakland. So now he's totally free to do both, and he does. The solo he played on the album Thrust, on the song “Actual Proof,” is
one of the best drum solos on any of my albums. So many people have remarked about that solo, saying, Incredible”
- Herbie Hancock
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