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“I
was happy to be called to play bass — not to spin the bass around my neck or even to solo, but just to play foundational, grooving bass, which is what I love to do.” So says Victor Wooten remembering a call from Dave Matthews Band saxophonist Jeff Coffin to anchor a live recording in Nashville featuring saxophone titan Dave Liebman. On the Corner Live!: The Music of Miles Davis, with drummer Chester
Thompson, keyboardist Chris Walters, and guitarist James DiSilva rounding out the sextet, draws from Davis’ fertile 1972 jazz–rock– funk platter of the same name, on which Liebman played a starring role. The unit also covers material from Davis’ In a Silent Way and Live Evil [all on Columbia]. That meant mining the minimalist, hypnotic ostinatos of Michael Henderson. Offers Wooten, “I was familiar with Miles’ music in that era through my brothers, who were avid listeners, but I
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