Clare Fischer

Clare Fischer (22 October 1928, Durand, Michigan — 26 January 2012, Los Angeles, California) was an American jazz composer, arranger, bandleader, keyboardist, and multi-instrumentalist. He was the younger brother of Stewart "Dirk" Fischer (1924—2014), uncle of André Fischer (b. 1948), and father of Brent Fischer (b. 1964), with whom Clare extensively collaborated. With a career spanning over five decades, Fischer came to prominence in the early 1960s with seminal albums in Afro-Cuban jazz, salsa, and bossa nova genres, and wrote two standards, Pensativa and Morning. Since the 1970s, Clare Fischer was a sought-after session musician and arranger, collaborating with Prince, João Gilberto, Paul McCartney, Céline Dion, Robert Palmer, Paula Abdul, Natalie Cole, Branford Marsalis, and Michael Jackson.