Clarke also released seven studio albums with Return to Forever from 1972 to 1977. He has released 23 albums as either co-leader or band member. Clarke produced albums for artists such as Roy Ayers, Roy Buchanan, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Natalie Cole, and Jim Walker. As a sideman he was recorded with Chick Corea, Curtis Fuller, Dexter Gordan, Pharaoh Sanders, and more. Clarke was awarded Bass Player Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. He also won a Grammy Award in 1975 and was Rolling Stone Magazine’s first “Jazzman of the Year”. He was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Sunset Boulevard in 1999.
