If This Bass Could Only Talk

If This Bass Could Only Talk
Studio album by Stanley Clarke
Released	1988
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)

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If This Bass Could Only Talk is a 1988 album by the American bassplayer Stanley Clarke.

Track listing

1. "If This Bass Could Only Talk" – 2:30
2. "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" – 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)" – 6:07
6. "Workin' Man" – 6:27
7. "Tradition" – 7:11
8. "Come Take My Hand" – 4:08
9. "Bassically Taps" – 3:15

Personnel

• Eddie Arkin – Synthesizer, Arranger
• Gerry Brown – Drums
• Stanley Clarke – Electric and Acoustic Bass Guitars, Fylde Acoustic Bass Guitar, Synthesizers; Arranger and Producer
• Stewart Copeland – Drums
• Paulinho Da Costa – Percussion
• George Duke – Piano
• James Earl – Bass
• Gregory Hines – Dancer
• Allan Holdsworth – Guitar
• George Howard – Sax (Soprano)
• Freddie Hubbard – Trumpet
• Steve Hunt – Synthesizer
• Byron Miller – Arranger, Producer, Synthesizer Bass
• John "J.R." Robinson – Drums
• Wayne Shorter – Sax (Soprano)
• Vance Taylor – Piano

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