“I have to follow that?!” an incredulous Steve Bailey asked into his mic, as waves of audience laughter rolled across the cavernous Sony Hall in midtown Manhattan. This was Bailey’s response to Victor Wooten’s solo, in which he plucked, slapped, and tapped a dizzying cascade of polyrhythms and deep-from-the-soul melodies while also sending his bass over his shoulder and back around, and then tossing it up in the air and spinning himself 360 degrees before the instrument settled back down. Bailey, of course, rose to the challenge on his 6-string fretless fingerboard, issuing a polyphony of melodies, slides, harmonics, and chords that sounded like an orchestra with the bass section jamming. In other words, it was just another night at a Bass Extremes show; a blend of mind-bending musicianship and sharp-tounged humor—on this August Saturday rounded out by the combustible Derrico Watson on drums. The most extreme show in bass is back as Wooten and Bailey have released S’Low Do