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If This Bass Could Only Talk

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Released
  
1988

If This Bass Could Only Talk (1988)
  
Passenger 57 (1992)

Release date
  
1988

Genre
  
Jazz fusion

Length
  
43:10

Artist
  
Stanley Clarke

Label
  
Portrait Records

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Producers
  
Stanley Clarke, Byron Miller

Similar
  
Stanley Clarke albums, Jazz fusion albums

Stanley clarke if this bass could only talk 1988 wmv


If This Bass Could Only Talk is a 1988 album by American bass player Stanley Clarke.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed and arranged by Stanley Clarke; except where indicated

  1. "If This Bass Could Only Talk" – 2:30
  2. "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" (Charles Mingus; arranged by Stanley Clarke and Eddie Arkin) - Dedicated to Jaco Pastorius and Gil Evans – 6:24
  3. "I Want to Play for Ya" – 3:22
  4. "Stories to Tell" – 3:46
  5. "Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)" (James Harris, Terry Lewis, Janet Jackson; arranged by Stanley Clarke and Byron Miller) – 6:07
  6. "Workin' Man" – 6:27
  7. "Tradition" – 7:11
  8. "Come Take My Hand" – 4:08
  9. "Bassically Taps" – 3:15

Personnel

  • For #1 and #9:
  • Gregory Hines – Tap Dancer
  • Stanley Clarke – Electric Bass Guitar
  • For #2:
  • Wayne Shorter – Sax (Soprano)
  • Eddie Arkin – Synthesizer
  • Stanley Clarke – Electric Bass Guitar
  • Gerry Brown – Drums
  • For #3:
  • Stanley Clarke – Synthesizers, Vocals
  • John "J.R." Robinson – Drums
  • For #4:
  • Allan Holdsworth – Guitar
  • Stanley Clarke – Electric Bass Guitar, Acoustic Bass, Synthesizers
  • Stewart Copeland – Drums
  • For #5:
  • Freddie Hubbard – Trumpet
  • Vance Taylor – Piano
  • Stanley Clarke – Electric Bass Guitar, Fylde Acoustic Bass Guitar
  • Byron Miller – Synthesizer Bass
  • Leon "Ndugu" Chancler – Drums
  • Paulinho da Costa – Percussion
  • For #6 and 7:
  • Steve Hunt – Synthesizer
  • Stanley Clarke – Electric Bass Guitar
  • James Earl – Low Bass
  • Gerry Brown – Drums
  • For #8:
  • George Howard – Sax (Soprano)
  • George Duke – Acoustic Piano
  • Stanley Clarke – Electric Bass Guitar, Synthesizers
  • John "J.R." Robinson – Drums

    • Production

  • Chris Cuffaro – Photography
  • Nancy Donald – Art Direction
  • Joe Gastwirt – Engineer
  • Mitch Gibson – Engineer
  • Bernie Grundman – Mastering
  • Mick Guzauski – Mixing
  • Dan Humann – Engineer
  • Tony Lane – Art Direction
  • Csaba Petocz – Engineer
  • Steve Sykes – Engineer

    • Songs

    1If This Bass Could Only Talk2:30
    2Goodbye Pork Pie Hat6:26
    3I Want to Play for Ya3:22

    References

    If This Bass Could Only Talk Wikipedia
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