The Toys of Men
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The Toys of Men is a 2007 album by jazz fusion
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...

 bassist
Bassist
A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...

 Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke is an American jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and electric bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores...

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Track listing

All tracks composed by Stanley Clarke except where noted.
  1. "The Toys of Men" – 11:14
  2. "Come On" – 2:59 (Bruner, Ronald Jr./Stanley Clarke
    Stanley Clarke
    Stanley Clarke is an American jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and electric bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores...

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

    /Mads Tolling)
  3. "Jerusalem" – 6:13 (Ruslan Sirota)
  4. "Back in the Woods" – 1:24
  5. "All Over Again" – 5:04 (Stanley Clarke/Esperanza Spalding
    Esperanza Spalding
    Esperanza Spalding is an American multi-instrumentalist best known as a jazz bassist and singer, who draws upon many genres in her own compositions...

    )
  6. "Hmm Hmm" – 1:53
  7. "Bad Asses" - 5:04
  8. "Game" - 3:18
  9. "La Cancion de Sofia" - 3:07
  10. "El Bajo Negro" - 7:45
  11. "Broski" - 1:56
  12. "Châteauvallon 1972" - 5:25
  13. "Bass Folk Song No. 6" - 2:52

Personnel

Musicians:
  • Stanley Clarke – bass, acoustic bass
    Acoustic bass
    The term acoustic bass may refer to one of the following bass instruments:*Double bass - an upright contrabass violin*Acoustic bass guitar - the acoustic version of the bass guitar...

    , electric bass
    Electric Bass
    Electric bass can mean:*Electric upright bass, the electric version of a double bass*Electric bass guitar*Bass synthesizer*Big Mouth Billy Bass, a battery-powered singing fish...

    , bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , piccolo bass
    Piccolo bass
    Piccolo bass can refer to two string instruments, the acoustic piccolo bass and the electric piccolo bass.Carl Thompson and Stanley Clarke collaborated on the electric piccolo bass and Ron Carter invented the first upright piccolo bass....

    , spoken word, tenor bass
  • Paulinho Da Costa
    Paulinho Da Costa
    Paulinho da Costa is a Brazilian percussionist born in Rio de Janeiro, considered one of the most recorded musicians of modern times. Playing over two hundred percussion instruments, he has participated in thousands of recording sessions, Grammy Award-winning albums, hit songs, soundtracks, radio...

     – percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

  • Jef Lee Johnson – guitar
  • Michael Landau
    Michael Landau
    Michael Landau is a prolific session musician and guitarist who has played on a large number of albums since the early 1980s with artists as varied as Seal, James Taylor, Helen Watson, Richard Marx, Steve Perry, Pink Floyd and Miles Davis...

     – acoustic guitar
    Acoustic guitar
    An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

    , electric guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

  • Tomer Shtein – acoustic guitar
  • Ruslan Sirota
    Ruslan Sirota
    Ruslan Sirota is a Grammy Award winning pianist, keyboardist, composer and producer.-Biography:Ruslan was born in Uman, Ukraine to a Jewish family on November 4, 1980. His father, Yefim, who was an active local guitarist, had introduced him to music at an early age...

     – Fender Rhodes, keyboard
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    s, piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

  • Esperanza Spalding
    Esperanza Spalding
    Esperanza Spalding is an American multi-instrumentalist best known as a jazz bassist and singer, who draws upon many genres in her own compositions...

     – vocals
  • Mads Tolling
    Mads Tolling
    Mads Tolling is a Danish-American violinist, violist and composer. Tolling won Grammy Awards for "Best classical crossover album" as part of Turtle Island Quartet's recordings 4+Four and A Love Supreme - The Legacy of John Coltrane . Tolling also recorded on Stanley Clarke's Toys of Men...

     – violin
    Violin
    The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....


Production:
  • Gerry "The Gov" Brown – engineer
  • Armando Carlos – cover photo
  • Bernie Grundman – mastering
  • Robert Hoffman – design
  • Dave Love – executive producer
  • Ed Thacker – engineer
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