BassDrumBone

LP version. Wooferlo is the 1989 Soul Note album of BassDrumBone, the collective trio of trombonist Ray Anderson, bassist Mark Helias and drummer Gerry Hemingway. Bradley Bambarger, reviewing a later album in DownBeat in 2017, dates their playing together to an impromptu gig in 1977. Hemingway's entry in the jazz.com encyclopedia lists the trio's records as Oahspe (1979), then Right Down Your Alley (1984), You Be (1986) and Wooferlo, so this comes about ten years into the trio's life.

The session was recorded on 2 and 3 November 1987 at Barigozzi Studio in Milan, with Giancarlo Barigozzi at the desk, Giovanni Bonandrini producing and Gennaro Carone mastering. The three designed the cover themselves, and Ken Van Sickle took the back cover photograph. The eight pieces are short to medium length, from four to nine minutes, and the writing is shared. Two, I Don't Know and Alligatory Crocodile, are published by Anderson's Raybone Music, and the rest go to two other publishers, Nagual Music and Radio Legs Music. The title track opens the record in under four minutes. Space, at over nine minutes, is the longest and most open piece, with Beau Regard and Siambali each passing six. Struttin With Some Mutton closes the set.

This is the original 1989 Soul Note LP, catalogue 121 187-1, a 140-gram copy of the first pressing that CAM Jazz, owner of the Soul Note catalogue, rediscovered in its vaults: original stock, not a reissue.