- jazz
- 54 min
- 7 tracks
- ECM Records
Bass Desires is the debut album by jazz acoustic bassist Marc Johnson, recorded in May 1985 and released on ECM the following year. The quartet—featuring guitarists Bill Frisell and John Scofield, and former Weather Report drummer Peter Erskine—would record Johnson's 1987 follow-up as “Marc Johnson's Bass Desires”.
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Spare, grave, classical in form and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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Tracks
- 1Samurai Hee-Haw7:45
- 2Resolution10:31
- 3Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair7:10
- 4Bass Desires6:12
- 5A Wishing Doll6:17
- 6Mojo Highway8:44
- 7Thanks Again7:16
7 tracks, 54 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Marc Johnson
- Label
- ECM Records
- Released
- 1986
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- DE
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