The fellowship of Bass players lost a comrade with the passing of former NBA player and smooth jazz artist Wayman Tisdale

Wow; thanks for posting this.  I liked his playing; he was a good player.  He died of bone cancer.

Here is a nice remembrance.

Wow!!!!......

He was a young man too. Terrible loss. The Way Up interview on the first link is real cool.
 
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He was the only bass player I ever saw who made Stanley Clarke look physically small by comaparison.

Very sad news.

I used to manage the Maintenance Shop bar in the Iowa State University Student Union.  It was a Friday night, and we were to play Oklahoma in basketball the next day.  I think they were ranked #2 in the country at the time.
 
Several players from the Oklahoma team came into the bar, and I started giving them beer in the hope that they would over consume and be hung over for the game, and perhaps ISU would have a chance.
 
Wayman Tisdale came in and said, ?I see that you are giving my friends beer.  If you give me some beer, I might score 40 points tomorrow!?.  I gave him a six pack and asked him to please not do that.  I think he scored 38.
 
After the team left the bar, one of my bartenders said, ?Call the police, and tell them that the Oklahoma team was here and stole a bunch of beer!?.  I declined, knowing that the ISU coach (Johnny Orr) would kill me if I pulled anything like that.
 
By the way, all of the players were perfect gentlemen.
 
I wish I had known at the time that Tisdale was a bass player.  I?ll bet he didn?t get the chance to talk about that much during basketball season.

WOW!!!
What a great guy.....and what a performer..I was well impressed by his tone and the feel he put into Sunday's Best
What a tragig loss to the world.yet again.
What bass was that ??

I see also, that he was another upsidedown player  Brilliant!

This is so sad. From all accounts he was a truly wonderful human being.
 
Edwin