Victor Wooten
WHAT DID HE SAY
Compass Records 74245
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This album might be more aptly titled What Can't He Play? Again this has to be one of the most superb, varied, playfully crafted discs to spin on my player in a long time. Another absolutely stunning groundbreaking effort that surpasses expectations. I have heard other discs that I have really loved for the music that spins forth taking one away from the mundane reality, but this is an entirely different and much more total experience. The music varies from funk and rap to a fantastic version of John Coltrane's NAIMA, to a beautiful, very different, yet quite recognizable without being boring, version of the Lennon/McCartney standard that is extremely overplayed, NORWEGIAN WOOD.
The shifts of stance, posture, and presentation are at times abrupt but never disconcerting, but rather they provoke thought and reflection. These shifts at times between the tracks and at times in the midst of the piece itself. The disc is never inaccessible, at times you wonder where is he coming from, but the settle back and go with the swings of thought. (I have a feeling he would be one extraordinarily interesting person to talk to. For the heck of it put on a piece he wrote called THE SOJOURN OF ARJUNA. Look at the instrumentation he is going to use (this brings me to my only complaint - the type is exceedingly hard to read), then see if you can figure the journey the song implies. The combination of jazz and Irish music brings to mind the seemingly ridiculous combinations that work, of Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains. The big departure from the first album is this is not a solo bass album. He uses other instruments, and uses them well. NOT TO BE MISSED.
Songs, musicians, writers all songs Victor Wooten unless noted
1. Yo Victa - :06
2. What Did He Say? - 3:16 - Victor Wooten, J.D. Blair, Kurt Storey,
Victor Wooten - bass, lead and BG vocals
J.D. Blair - drums, BG vocals
Cherokee - BG vocals
3. What You Won't Do For Love - 4:41 - Robert Hunter Caldwell/Altans Fernando Kettner
Victor Wooten - bass
J.D. Blair - drums
4. Cherokee - 1:49 - Ray Noble
Victor Wooten - bass
James Genus - acoustic bass
Raymond Massey - drums,
Futch - swinging ride cymbal
Regi Wooten - guitar
Joseph Wooten - piano
Rudy Wooten - alto sax
Jeff Coffin - tenor sax
Rod McGaha - trumpet
Cherokee - vocal
5. Don't Wanna Cry - 5:05
Victor Wooten - bass, vocals musical programming
Ann McCray & Robert Bailey - soulful BG vocal
6. The Loneliest Monk - 4:33
Victor Wooten - bass, cello, percussion, vocals, and piano solo
J.D. Blair - drums, percussion
7. A Chance - 2:53 - J.D. Blair
Victor Wooten - bass
J.D. Blair - Drums, drum program, bass
8 Radio W-OO-10 - 1:03
Michael Kott - vocal
Matt Smith - vocal
9 Norwegian Wood - 4:49 -John Lennon/Paul McCartney
Victor Wooten - bass
10. Bro John -4:16
Elijah "Pete" Wooten - lead vocal
Victor Wooten - bass, BG vocals, stomps and claps
J.D. Blair - drums, percussion, stomps and claps
Holly Wooten - stomps and claps
Kurt Storey - stomps and claps
11. Naima - 5:54 - John Coltrane
Oteil Burbridge - electric bass
Regi Wooten - nylon string guitar
J.D. Blair - drums
Jim Roberts - percussion
Victor Wooten - acoustic bass
12. Somtimes I Laugh - 3:19
Victor Wooten - bass
13. My Life
Victor Wooten - bass, guitar, lead and BG vocals
J.D. Blair - drums, BG vocal
Kurt Storey - BG vocals
14. The Sojourn of Arjuna - 6:24
Victor Wooten - bass
Future Man -drums
Joseph Wooten - keyboards
Paul McCandless - soprano sax
Davy Spillane - Uilleann pipes
Bela Fleck - banjo
Rod McGaha - trumpet
Raymond Massey - snare drum
J.D. Blair - snare drum
Jennie Hoeff - snare drum
15. buzz ntro - :37
16. A Little Buzz - 2:40
Buzz loop created by Victor Wooten and Kurt Storey
Victor Wooten - electric bass, acoustic bass, lead and BG vocals
J.D. Blair - drums
17. kids didn't change - :53
18. Heaven Is Where The Heart Is - 5:03
Vocal arrangement by the Wooten Brothers
Victor Wooten - bass, lead and BG vocals
J.D. Blair - drums, percussion
Regi Wooten - lead and BG vocals
Royel Wooten - lead and BG vocals
Rudy Wooten - lead and BG vocals
Joseph Wooten - lead and BG vocals
Holly Wooten - BG vocal
Unborn baby Wooten - heartbeat
Produced by Victor Lemonte Wooten, Kurt Storey, and J.D. Blair