> On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Elson Trinidad wrote:
> > Isn't there an NBA player who also moonlights as a jazz bassist (a la
> > Marcus Miller)? His name escapes me right now.
>
> The Sacramento Kings have a forward named Wayman Tisdale. He has a couple
> albums of him playing jazz-style electric bass on the American MoJazz
> label, the Motown jazz label. Unless he's released something within the
> past year and a half (lord knows he's never busy during the playoffs), I
> think his last album was called _Power_Forward_. I fear hearing it even
> though there are some NBA players with decent musical ability like Dana
> Barros (on the mic) but the horrible pretenders outnumber the average.
I read reviews of his work a couple of years ago. Practically called
him mediocre at best. I listened to a couple of tracks, myself. He
has a couple of good riffs here and there, but nothing to get excited
about.
-- Niraj Agarwalla -- niraj@shore.net -- http://www.shore.net/~niraj GO RED SOX!!!!