Clive Stevens

Clive Stevens was a saxophonist, composer, session player, producer, and writer from Bristol, England. He recorded under his own name and as Mandorla, and worked with a wide variety of international jazz, pop, rock, and world music acts. Stevens formed the studio-only Atmospheres in the early 1970s and included John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner in its lineups -- both were classmates at the Berklee College of Music. He issued two seminal, oft-reissued, star-studded fusion dates for Capitol in 1974: Atmospheres featuring Clive Stevens & Friends and Voyage to Uranus. He cut Semja...