Wayman Tisdale

[toni_dawg35]

Has anyone heard his new cd "way up"? i picked up a copy at my job at fontana and its got some solid songs on it - i was pretty impressed with wayman's bass skills since i'll always view him as an nba player. any fans of his, what did ya think of the new cd. check it out at www.waymantisdale.com if youre interested

[Guy Berger]

From AMG (doesn't sound too promising):

by Thom Jurek

Wayman Tisdale returns to the recording fold after a two-year break to issue another jazz-funk, groove-laden coaster with Way Up! The case of characters on this set is enormous, a few of the more prominent names include Jeff Lorber, Bob James, George Duke, Ricky Peterson, Kirk Whalum, Jonathan Butler, Dave Koz and Mel Brown. Tisdale, as expected, plays "lead bass" on all tracks. His bass-playing, tuned way up high, feels more like an electric baritone guitar than anything else. He plays it like a lead guitarist who never, ever falls out of time. Check out "Let's Do It Again," or "Get Down on It," that also features Darren Rahn's saxophone sweetening things up quite a bit., and Brown's bass holding down the bottom end as Tisdale riffs it up. Lorber uses slippery programming and treated keyboards on the ballad "Shape of Your Heart," with a lovely solo by saxophonist by Donald Hayes. Tisdale's melodic sensibility is simple, but tasty too, and he employs it throughout here. His read of Sly Stone's "If You Want Me to Stay," would be heresy except that it contains fine keyboard work from Lorber, a great saxophone chart and solo by Whalum, and Tisdale's take on the melody is just gritty enough to get away with it, making it one of the set's finer cuts. Check "Sweet Dreams," with vocals by Eric Benet, and we have a neo-soul single in the making. George Duke's "Tell It Like It Is" is the baddest funk on the side, and the synth horns, brass, and the doubling of Duke's synth playing and Tisdale's gutbucket chops make it the winner on an album where there are no losers.

[Guest akanalog]

how is that bernie williams album?

just joking, i don't really care.

[Dan Gould]

how is that bernie williams album?

just joking, i don't really care.

Funny you should mention it, cuz Bernie and Waymon sound like musical soulmates. How long before we get a collaboration?

[Guest akanalog]

that collaboration would be like "a dump taking a dump".

[Spontooneous]

Hot diggity. Another thread started by a spammer from Universal.

[sheldonm]

...good b-ball player....not good bass player!

[sheldonm]

Hot diggity. Another thread started by a spammer from Universal.

....wow, I can't believe you could see right through it!

[Ken Dryden]

Pseudo-jazz...

[Brad]

how is that bernie williams album?

just joking, i don't really care.

Funny you should mention it, cuz Bernie and Waymon sound like musical soulmates. How long before we get a collaboration?

I wonder if John Stirling (voice of the Yankees) likes Bernie's cd? I can hear it now "Burn, Bernie, burn."

[relyles]

I guess no one here is actually going to listen to the recording.

[Dave James]

I don't think you actually have to listen to this to have a pretty good idea what it sounds like. Everyone knows the drill; spanky bass, drum machine-like percussion, maybe some pseudo rap lyrics, a synth or two. That's what this stuff is all about. It's so cookie cutter, there is absolutely no way someone like Wayman Tisdale is going to do anything that 50 other smoothies haven't done to death already.

Up over and out.

[catesta]

I don't think you actually have to listen to this to have a pretty good idea what it sounds like. Everyone knows the drill; spanky bass, drum machine-like percussion, maybe some pseudo rap lyrics, a synth or two. That's what this stuff is all about. It's so cookie cutter, there is absolutely no way someone like Wayman Tisdale is going to do anything that 50 other smoothies haven't done to death already.

Up over and out.

Yep.

I heard a partial track over the weekend. All I can say is it's very lame.

[Cali]

Bo-o-o, spanky bass player!

Hoo-ray, Dave James!