As leader

Albums

Singles

As co-leader/band member

With Animal Logic

• Animal Logic (I.R.S., 1989)
• Animal Logic II (I.R.S, 1991)

With George Duke

• The Clarke/Duke Project (Epic, 1981)
• The Clarke/Duke Project II (Epic, 1983)
• 3 (Epic, 1990)
• Live in Montreux 1988 (Jazz Door, 1993)

With Fuse One

• Fuse One (CTI, 1980)
• Silk (CTI, 1981)

With Hiromi and Lenny White (As The Stanley Clarke Trio)

• Jazz in the Garden (Heads Up, 2009)

With The Manhattan Project

• The Manhattan Project (Blue Note, 1989)

With The New Barbarians

• Buried Alive: Live in Maryland (Wooden, 2006)

With Jean-Luc Ponty/Al Di Meola

• The Rite of Strings (Gai Saber, 1995)

With Jean-Luc Ponty/Biréli Lagrène

• D-Stringz (Impulse!, 2015)

With Return to Forever

• Return to Forever (ECM, 1972)
• Light as a Feather (Polydor, 1972)
• Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (Polydor, 1973)
• Where Have I Known You Before (Polydor, 1974)
• No Mystery (Polydor, 1975)
• Romantic Warrior (Columbia, 1976)
• Musicmagic (Columbia, 1977)
• Return to Forever, Live (Columbia, 1978)
• The Griffith Park Band Live
• The Griffith Park Collection (1982)
• Returns (Eagle, 2009)
• Forever [as Corea, Clarke & White] (Concord, 2011)
• The Mothership Returns (Eagle, 2012)

With Stanley Clarke & Friends

• Live at the Greek (Epic, 1994)

With SMV

• Thunder (Heads Up, 2008)

With Vertú

• Vertú (Epic, 1999)

As sideman

With Gato Barbieri

• 1971 Under Fire (Flying Dutchman)
• 1973 Bolivia (Flying Dutchman)
• 1975 El Gato (Flying Dutchman)

With Luiz Bonfá

• 1973 Jacarandá
• 1974 Todo o Nada
• 1991 Grandes Compositores

With Chick Corea

• 1974 Live in New York
• 1976 My Spanish Heart
• 1980 Tap Step
• 1982 Touchstone
• 2017 The Musician [compilation]

With Norman Connors

• 1972 Dance of Magic
• 1973 Dark of Light
• 1993 Remember Who You Are

With Deodato

• 1972 Prelude
• 1973 Deodato 2
• 1975 Deodato Max 20
• 1983 Super Fusion 1900
• 1984 Deodato
• 2000 Odisea del Espacio
• 2001 Preludes & Rhapsodies
• 2004 Trios
• 2005 Beginning
• 2006 Todos Sus Grandes Exitos

With George Duke

• 1977 From Me to You
• 1977 Reach for It
• 1984 Rendezvous
• 1993 Muir Woods Suite (rel. 1996, live)

With Joe Farrell

• 1972 Moon Germs
• 1978 La Cathedral Y El Toro

With Mike Garson

• 1986 Serendipity
• 1989 Remember Love
• 1991 Admiration

With Stan Getz

• 1967 Sweet Rain
• 1974 Captain Marvel
• 1977 At Montreux (rec. 1972)
• 1979 Children of the World
• 1988 The Lyrical Stan Getz
• 2008 Complete Live at Montreux 1972 (rec. 1972 & 1974)

With Dexter Gordon

• 1972 Tangerine
• 1972 Ca'Purange
• 1996 Blue Dex: Dexter Gordon Plays the Blues [compilation]
• 1998 The Art of the Ballad [compilation]

With Howard Hewett

• 1994 It's Time
• 2007 If Only...

With George Howard

• 1986 A Nice Place to Be
• 1988 Reflections
• 1992 Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?
• 1993 When Summer Comes

With Freddie Hubbard

• 1979 The Love Connection
• 1981 Mistral
• 1989 Times Are Changing

With Bobby Lyle

• 1985 Night Breeze
• 1994 Rhythm Stories

With Teena Marie

• 1983 Robbery
• 1986 Emerald City

With Paul McCartney

• 1982 Tug of War
• 1983 Pipes of Peace

With John McLaughlin

• 1979 Electric Guitarist
• 2004 Guitar & Bass [compilation]

With Airto Moreira

• 1972 Free
• 1974 Virgin Land
• 1989 Struck by Lightning
• 1993 Killer Bees
• 2000 Revenge of the Killer Bees

With Alphonse Mouzon

• 1984 Distant Lover
• 1985 Back to Jazz (as The Alphonse Mouzon Band)

With Sunnie Paxson

• 2002 Groove Suite
• 2011 Bohemian Sun

With Dianne Reeves

• 1987 Dianne Reeves
• 1990 Never Too Far

With Pharoah Sanders

• 1971 Black Unity (Impulse)
• 1972 Live at the East (Impulse!)
• 1973 Village of the Pharoahs (Impulse!)

With McCoy Tyner

• 1979 Together
• 1982 Looking Out
• 2000 McCoy Tyner with Stanley Clarke and Al Foster
• 2007 Afro Blue [compilation]

With Lenny White

• 1995 Present Tense
• 1996 Renderers of Spirit
• 2010 Anomaly

With Tony Williams

• 1978 The Joy of Flying
• 1996 Wilderness (Live 1995)^[8]

With others

• 1971 In Pursuit of Blackness, Joe Henderson
• 1972 Blues and the Soulful Truth, Leon Thomas
• 1972 Dom Um Romão, Dom Um Romão
• 1972 The Loud Minority, Frank Foster
• 1973 Crankin', Curtis Fuller
• 1973 Gypsy Man, Robin Kenyatta
• 1973 Illusion Suite, Stanley Cowell
• 1973 Butterfly Dreams, Flora Purim
• 1973 Child's Dance: Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers Vol. 1, Art Blakey
• 1973 Extension of a Man, Donny Hathaway
• 1974 Borboletta, Santana
• 1974 The Chicago Theme, Hubert Laws
• 1974 In the Cut, Ray Bryant
• 1974 Let Me in Your Life, Aretha Franklin
• 1974 Two Is One, Charlie Rouse
• 1976 Black Rose, J. D. Souther
• 1976 I Heard That!!, Quincy Jones
• 1976 Ports of the Heart, Jimmie Spheeris
• 1976 Land of the Midnight Sun, Al Di Meola
• 1977 Killer Joe, Benny Golson
• 1977 Loading Zone, Roy Buchanan
• 1977 Sweet Bird, Lani Hall
• 1977 Just Family, Dee Dee Bridgewater
• 1979 I Loved You Then... I Love You Now, Gayle Moran
• 1979 Troublemaker, Ian McLagan
• 1980 Love at First Sight, Sonny Rollins
• 1981 Galaxian, The Jeff Lorber Fusion
• 1982 Echoes of an Era, with Chaka Khan, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Chick Corea & Lenny White
• 1982 Hollywood, Maynard Ferguson
• 1983 Spanish Wave, L. Subramaniam
• 1983 The Look, Shalamar
• 1984 In the Dark, Roy Ayers
• 1984 Marathon, Rodney Franklin
• 1984 The Big Jazz Trio, George Cables
• 1984 The Two of Us, Ramsey Lewis & Nancy Wilson
• 1985 Anywhere You Go, David Pack
• 1985 Put Sunshine in It, Arthur Blythe
• 1986 Illusions, Eliane Elias
• 1986 Blue Notes, Helen Terry
• 1986 Word Up!, Cameo
• 1987 A Sound Investment, Flip Phillips/Scott Hamilton
• 1987 Shieldstone, Stanley Clarke & Bill Shields
• 1987 All Systems Go, Donna Summer
• 1988 Every Step of the Way, David Benoit
• 1988 Diamond Inside of You, Rodney Franklin
• 1988 Heart's Horizon, Al Jarreau
• 1989 Alligator, Leslie West
• 1990 First Instrument, Rachelle Ferrell [rel. 1995, re-issue of Somethin' Else (1990)]
• 1991 The Comfort Zone, Vanessa Williams
• 1992 Precious, Chanté Moore
• 1993 Love's Alright, Eddie Murphy
• 1994 Smooth, Gerald Albright
• 1995 Giving Myself to You, Gerald Albright
• 1994 Freudian Slip, Deborah Holland
• 1995 Dance of Fire, Aziza Mustafa Zadeh
• 1995 Songs from the Key of Life: A Tribute to Stevie Wonder, Najee
• 1996 Inner City Blues, Doc Powell
• 1996 Laid Back, Doc Powell
• 1996 Leopard Son, Stewart Copeland
• 1998 Gershwin's World, Herbie Hancock
• 1998 Walk Tall: Tribute to Cannonball Adderley, Eric Marienthal
• 1998 World According to M.T., Michael Thompson
• 2003 In Between the Heartaches, Phyllis Hyman
• 2003 Timeless Eliane Elias, Eliane Elias [compilation]
• 2004 A Man and His Music, Claus Ogerman [2CD compilation]
• 2004 The Trip, Tom Middleton
• 2005 Master of All Trades, Marcus Miller [2DVD video]
• 2006 Givin' It Up, George Benson/Al Jarreau
• 2009 The Playmaker, Mads Tolling
• 2011 Ruslan, Ruslan Sirota
• 2011 Somos, Kennard Ramsey
• 2011 Swing Shift, Doug Webb
• 2012 Fusion Best, Ithamara Koorax
• 2012 Rhythm Sessions, Lee Ritenour
• 2013 Ritzville, Allen Vizzutti
• 2014 Morning Phase, Beck
• 2017 Elaborations (1982) / Light Blue: Arthur Blythe Plays Thelonious Monk (1983) / Put Sunshine In It (1985), Arthur Blythe [reissue of three albums]
• 2017 World Wide Funk, Bootsy Collins^[8]

As producer

• 1978 Just Family, Dee Dee Bridgewater
• 1982 Hollywood, Maynard Ferguson
• 1983 I'm Ready, Natalie Cole
• 1983 The Look, Shalamar
• 1984 Beyond the Clouds, Free Flight
• 1984 In the Dark, Roy Ayers^[7][8]
• 1984 Marathon, Rodney Franklin
• 1984 The Two of Us, Ramsey Lewis & Nancy Wilson
• 1984 No Question About It, Kent Jordan
• 1986 I Commit to Love, Howard Hewitt
• 1988 Diamond Inside of You, Rodney Franklin
• 1988 Get Here, Brenda Russell
• 1990 Private Flight, Jim Walker

Feature films

Television

Television movies

Animation

• Static Shock 2000

directed by Denys Cowan, Dan Riba

• Waynehead (1996–1997)

directed by Damon Wayans

• Cool Like That Christmas 1994

directed by David Feiss, Swinton O. Scott III

Music videos

• "Michael Jackson: Remember the Time" 1992

directed by John Singleton

Documentaries

• Meet Bob Shaye 2004

directed by Jeffery Schwartz

• Maryanne e gli altri (Italy) 1995

directed by Ita Cesa, Giuseppe Selva