The message

"Stanley Clarke has seemingly done it all by this point, but that doesn't stop him from barreling ahead as if he still has something to prove. What else can be said about such a muscular album arriving after 45 years of music making?".

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"... full marks, Commander Clarke, for a masterly Bach prelude, expertly bowed. But surely we could have been spared "To Be Alive"-the seemingly inevitable rap number. The message (perhaps from an older, wiser civilisation in a galaxy far, far away) is that even a great musician comes unstuck trying to be all things to all men... and women".

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"Ultimately, while the conceptual "message" of The Message can often seem a bit unfocused, Clarke's music remains as crisp and inventive as ever".

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