Douglas Clare Fischer was an American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader.
28 Facts About Clare Fischer
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Clare Fischer composed the Latin jazz standard "Morning", and the jazz standard "Pensativa".
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Clare Fischer was the third of four children born to Cecil and Louella Clare Fischer of Durand, Michigan, United States.
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Clare Fischer's parents were of German, French, Irish-Scot, and English backgrounds.
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Clare Fischer returned the favor by orchestrating and copying music for him.
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Whenever the concert band needed an instrument, Clare Fischer would be supplied with it and the fingering chart to play it in concert.
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Clare Fischer started his own band at 15, for which he wrote all the arrangements.
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Clare Fischer was introduced to the music of Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez, Machito and others.
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Clare Fischer knows what language it is and is familiar with one or two words.
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Clare Fischer next lived in Detroit, Michigan, whereupon, after first hearing the vocal quartet The Hi-Lo's in a live performance, he promptly offered his services.
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Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept.
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When Clare Fischer moved to Hollywood in 1958, he went to East Los Angeles, to play and learn more about Latin-Jazz.
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Clare Fischer started in a charanga group with Modesto Duran as leader and played with many different groups.
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In 1961, Clare Fischer became interested in Brazilian music through the recordings of Elizete Cardoso and Joao Gilberto.
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In turn, Gillespie hired Clare Fischer to write arrangements for a small ensemble featuring brass and woodwinds for his own album, A Portrait of Duke Ellington, which was well received.
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Clare Fischer presented himself both as pianist and arranger and composed his most famous pieces, "Pensativa" and "Morning".
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Clare Fischer began to record on a Hammond B-3 for Pacific and on an album by Cal Tjader, Sona Libre.
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In 1975, after ten years of studio work and artistically successful yet obscure solo records, Clare Fischer found a new direction.
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Clare Fischer started his own group with Latino musicians, "Salsa Picante", which showed great eclecticism in musical styles.
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Clare Fischer's walls are now covered with gold and platinum records from these recordings, Grammy Award nominations, and several NARAS MVP Awards, culminating in an MVP-emeritus in 1985.
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Once his fame as an arranger was established, Clare Fischer worked with pop musicians such as Paul McCartney, Prince, Celine Dion and Robert Palmer.
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Clare Fischer's arrangements appeared both on Prince's albums and in the Prince film soundtrack music for Under the Cherry Moon, Graffiti Bridge, Batman and Girl 6.
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In 1995 Clare Fischer released the solo jazz piano album Just Me on the Concord Jazz label.
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In 1998, the album The Latin Side, which featured Clare Fischer compositions, was released by The Netherlands Metropole Orchestra.
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One of Fischer's last projects in his own name was a recording with Brazilian guitarist Helio Delmiro called "Symbiosis" which has been released on a "Clare Fischer Productions" recording as has his Clare Fischer's Jazz Corps recording.
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On January 8,2012, Clare Fischer suffered a cardiac arrest in Los Angeles, following a minor surgery a few days before.
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Clare Fischer remained in ICU on life support, and died on January 26,2012.
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Clare Fischer was survived by his wife; three children, Lee, Brent and Tahlia; and two stepchildren, Lisa and Bill Bachman.