If This Bass Could Only Talk

If This Bass Could Only Talk
Studio album by Stanley Clarke
Released	1988
Studio	Garage Recorders Ocean Way Recording Capitol Studios Baby'O Cherokee Studios The Complex Westlake Recording Studios (Los Angeles, California)
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	43:10
Label	Portrait
Producer	Stanley Clarke Byron Miller
Stanley Clarke chronology
Hideaway (1986) If This Bass Could Only Talk (1988) Passenger 57 (1992)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

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

Track listing

All tracks are written by Stanley Clarke except where noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"If This Bass Could Only Talk"		2:30
2.	"Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"	Charles Mingus	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)"	Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Janet Jackson	6:07
6.	"Workin' Man"		6:27
7.	"Tradition"		7:11
8.	"Come Take My Hand"		4:08
9.	"Bassically Taps"		3:15

Personnel

• Stanley Clarke – double bass, bass guitar, acoustic and electric guitar, keyboards
• Wayne Shorter – soprano saxophone (on 2)
• George Howard – soprano saxophone (on 8)
• Freddie Hubbard – trumpet (on 5)
• Allan Holdsworth – guitar (on 4)
• George Duke – piano (on 8)
• Vance Taylor – piano (on 5)
• Eddie Arkin – synthesizer (on 2)
• Steve Hunt – synthesizer (on 6, 7)
• Byron Lee Miller – synthesizer bass (on 5)
• Gregory Hines – tap dancer (on 1, 9)
• Jimmy Earl – bass (on 6, 7)
• Gerry Brown – drums (on 2, 6, 7)
• Stewart Copeland – drums (on 4)
• Leon "Ndugu" Chancler – drums (on 5)
• John Robinson – drums (on 3, 8)
• Paulinho da Costa – percussion (on 5) ^{[2] [3]}

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

References

1. Yanow, Scott (2011). "If This Bass Could Only Talk - Stanley Clarke | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved July 20, 2011.
2. "If This Bass Could Only Talk". AllMusic . Retrieved September 19, 2017.
3. "Stanley Clarke – If This Bass Could Only Talk (1988, Carrollton pressing, Vinyl)". Discogs.com. Retrieved December 25, 2021.