Marc Johnson's Bass Desires, Second Sight - 52m 6s

Tracks & Durations

1. Crossing The Corpus Callosum	8:30
2. Small Hands	6:44
3. Sweet Soul	7:31
4. Twister	4:57
5. Thrill Seekers	8:38
6. Prayer Beads	3:57
7. 1951	5:07
8. Hymn For Her	6:37

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Review

This second recorded meeting of Johnson's quartet with drummer Peter Erskine and celebrated guitarists Bill Frisell and John Scofield took place in 1987, and it's every bit as inspired as the first. Each member of the group contributes compositions, and they pick up on different qualities inherent in the band. Erskine's slow infusion of the gospel "Sweet Soul" offers Memphis soul notes to Scofield, while Frisell finds a comfortable base for some pedal steel-like country. Scofield's "The Twister" picks up on the rock basics implicit in the instrumentation--he and Frisell are both very electric guitarists here--and adds some harmonic complexity to the groove. Frisell's "1951" gives the listener a good idea of what Thelonious Monk writing quarter-tone country & western would sound like. There's much here that's playful, but there's also emotional power in the brooding force of Johnson's "Crossing the Corpus Callosum" and elegiac beauty in his "Hymn for Her." --Stuart Broomer

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