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San Francisco's white bassist Michael Formanek (1958) debuted with the creative watercolors of
Wide Open Spaces (january 1990), featuring saxophonist Greg Osby, violinist Mark Feldman, guitarist Wayne Krantz and drummer Jeff Hirshfield.
Longer compositions such as Dominoes gave Extended Animation (november 1991), with Tim Berne replacing Osby, a completely different feeling, almost like a philosophical version of the previous album's impressionism.
The progression towards a more pensive and plaintive style continued on
Low Profile (october 1993), for a septet including Berne, trumpeter Dave Douglas, saxophonist and clarinetist Marty Ehrlich, trombone, piano and drums,
that included the 12-minute Great Plains,
and reached a peak with the 12-minute Thick Skin/ Dangerous Crustaceans on Nature of the Beast (april 1996), in a quartet with trumpeter Douglas, trombonist Steve Swell and drummer Jim Black, recorded while Formanek was a member of Tim Berne's Bloodcount.
These albums had rarely been showcases for his technique, but the
solo-bass tour de force of Am I Bothering You (december 1997)
made amend, offering a
dazzling catalogue of bass inventions.
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