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Stanley Clarke: If This Bass Could Only Talk

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Artist: Stanley Clarke
Title: If This Bass Could Only Talk
Released: 1988
Label: Epic Records
Time: 43:15
Producer(s): Byron Miller
Appears with: Al Di Meola, Jean-Luc Ponty
Category: Jazz
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2000.08.03
Price in €: 8,99
Web address: www.stanleyclarke.com

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[1] If This Bass Could Only Talk (S.Clarke) - 2:30
[2] Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (Mingus) - 6:25
[3] I Want to Play for Ya (S.Clarke) - 3:27
[4] Stories to Tell (S.Clarke) - 3:47
[5] Funny How Time Flies [When You're Having] (Harris) - 6:05
[6] Workin' Man (S.Clarke) - 6:26
[7] Tradition (S.Clarke) - 7:11
[8] Come Take My Hand (S.Clarke) - 4:09
[9] Bassically Taps (S.Clarke) - 3:15 

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STANLEY CLARKE - Synthesizer, Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Acoustic & Electric Bass, Percussion, Arranger, Keyboards

STEWART COPELAND - Drums
GREGORY HINES - Dancer
GEORGE DUKE - Piano
ALLAN HOLDSWORTH - Guitar
GEORGE HOWARD - Soprano Saxophone
WAYNE SHORTER - Soprano Saxophone
JAMES EARL - Bass
EDDIE ARKIN - Synthesizer, Arranger
GERRY BROWN - Drums
PAULINHO DA COSTA - Percussion
FREDDIE HUBBARD - Trumpet
STEVE HUNT - Synthesizer
BYRON MILLER - Arranger, Synthesizer Bass
JOHN "J.R." ROBINSON - Drums
VANCE TAYLOR - Piano

JOE GASTWIRT - Engineer
MITCH GIBSON - Engineer
CSABA PETOCZ - Engineer
STEVE SYKES - Engine Perhaps aware of some creeping staleness in his records, Clarke brought in a lot of help and sailed in the general direction of The Wave on Hideaway — but with only slightly improved results. George Howard, Angela Bofill, Herbie Hancock, Stewart Copeland (with whom Clarke would soon form Animal Logic), the newly emerged Stanley Jordan, and bass colleague Alphonso Johnson are some of the more recognizable names on board, and Clarke mans all of the instruments himself on the drum computer-driven "When It's Cold Outside." Some points of note: Stevie Wonder's "Overjoyed" gets a lush treatment augmented by Jordan's spidery guitar and Clare Fischer's string chart; "Old Friends" features the core of the School Days band and sounds fresher than its companions while allowing for some electronic updating of the style. But rarely are the guests challenged to their capabilities in this polished, often relaxed collection of synth-textured tracks, for the material remains mostly routine.

Richard S. Ginell, All-Music Guide, © 1992 - 2001 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.er
DAN HUMANN - Engineer
BERNIE GRUNDMAN - Mastering
MICK GUZAUSKI - Mixing
TONY LANE - Art Direction
NANCY DONALD - Art Direction
CHRIS CUFFARO - Photography

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1988 LP Epic 4608831
1990 CD Columbia 40923
1990 CD CBS 40923
1991 CD Portrait RK-40923
1991 CS Portrait ORT-40923
1991 CD Columbia 40923


This was bassist Stanley Clarke's twelfth solo set, and one of his very few that would be recommended to jazz (as opposed to funk and R&B) listeners. On the instrumental set, Clarke's bass is featured in a wide variety of settings, including duets with tap dancer Gregory Hines and drummer John Robinson, a quartet with Wayne Shorter ("Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"), in a power trio with guitarist Allan Holdsworth and drummer Stewart Copeland, a piece with George Duke (on acoustic piano for a change) and soprano saxophonist George Howard, a quartet with the synthesizers of Steve Hunt, and "Funny How Time Flies," which has a colorful Freddie Hubbard trumpet solo. Throughout, Clarke's bass has plenty of solo space, and he shows how strong a player he can be when given decent material.

Scott Yanow, All-Music Guide



Yeah, me and Stanley seen some wild shit together alright. He's been playing me since `72, and over the years, the two of us created a style of bass playing that's changed the very conception of what me and my kind should sound like. Stanley dragged me out of the rhythm section and let me shine as a lead instrument, sometimes putting me down in favor of his piccolo bass for further melodic excursions (or else givin' me one of them wild tunings). Me and Stanley developed a style that can be applied to all genres, and on this record (which Stanley produced all by himself), he demonstrates just how diverse his virtuoso playing can be. The coolest things here are our two collaborations with Lefty and Righty-Gregory Hines' tap dancin' feet! We laid down a blues jam on the title track, and wildly smokin', finger-poppin' workout on the closing tune, "Bassically Taps," where my sharp percussive pops and Hines' taps blend together almost seamlessly! Also, Stanley covers (and transforms) Mingus' "Goodbye, Porkpie Hat" (dedicated to Gil Evans and Jaco Pastorius, whose playing Stan and I occasionally evoke here), as well as Janet Jackson's hit "Funny How Time Flies." Don't miss "Workin' Man," where we show our rock chops, and the trad-style swing of "Traditional." And yo, don't I look right nice on the album jacket?

CMJ.com



"Stories To Tell" ist ein unspektakuläres Beispiel für Stanley Clarkes Baß-Klasse. Er läßt die Saiten swingen, singen, jammern, funkt gar zu ge- stepter Percussion ("Bassically Taps"). Trotz Koryphäen wie Wayne Shorter oder Freddie Hubbard geht im ätherischen Fusion-Ambiente oft der Faden verloren.

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