Mike Clark

07/24/18 • 49 min

Drum virtuoso Mike Clark gained worldwide recognition helping create the jazz-funk genre while playing with Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters in the early 1970s. His incisive playing on Hancock’s “Actual Proof” garnered him an international cult following and has influenced generations of drummers. His versatility led him to a two-year stint with Brand X, the British jazz/rock fusion band founded by Phil Collins. With them he recorded “Do They Hurt?” and “Product.” Mike and Lenny recently sat down to "chew the fat".

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