He was a keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. During a career spanning six decades, Clare Fischer worked with jazz artists like George Benson and pop icons like Prince and Robert Palmer and recorded in a wide variety of settings from solo piano to heading a vocal-dominated Latin group, Salsa Picante. When he had time-off he composed some memorable jazz standards like “Pensativa” and “Morning.”
Tune in at 8 p.m., Monday, March 4 to listen to the works of this amazing musician, on another edition of “Unsung Heroes, Influential but Overlooked Masters of Modern Music.”