Jazz
Contemporary Jazz
Recorded: Top Of The Hill Studios, Nashville, Tennessee and The Powerless Station, New York, New York
Victor Lemonte Wooten - vocals, bass, tenor bass;
Will Lee, J.D. Blair, Cortney Knight, Brittany Knight, Michael Saleem, Mark "Zeke"
Sellers, Roy Wooten, Joseph Wooten, Michael Kott, Elijah "Pete" Wooten, Park Law,
Kurt Storey, Aashid, Dorothy G. Wooten - vocals.
A SHOW OF HANDS contains samples of the voices of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
This is one of the most ambitious albums I have run across. The only instrument on it other than bass guitar is voice. Before you come to a sliding stop, give it a moment and listen to the beauty that comes forth from the speakers. "It won't hold my interest!" you say. "Horse feathers!" say I. This is an album from the heart of a thinking and feeling human, who has so much to give. I was skeptical for about 20 seconds, then I was hooked into it. It is complex/it is simple. It is here/there. Confusing/Straightforward. Straight/Narrow. Big/Small. Top/Bottom. Put it on and open up to the music.
---Bob Gottlieb, allmusic
Includes liner notes by Victor Wooten |
