BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Description: Bassist, USA
Known For: Live In America (Album)
Instruments: Bass, Double Bass
Music Styles: Funk, Jazz, Fusion, Progressive bluegrass
Location: United States of America
Date Born: 11th September 1964
Location Born: Hampton, Virginia, United States of America
CONTACT DETAILS
Web Site: Victor Lemonte Wooten – official website
Other Links: See below:
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Victor Wooten
An American bass player.
Bassist, Composer, Singer, Songwriter, Bandleader, Record producer.
The Wooten Brothers band (Regi, Rudy, Roy, Joseph and Victor) played for many years in the 1970s around Williamsburg, Virginia as well as opening up for Curtis Mayfield and War.
Wooten has won the “Bass Player of the Year” award from Bass Player magazine three times in a row, and was the first person to win the award more than once.
Wooten has been a member of several fusion and progressive supergroups, including Bass Extremes (with Steve Bailey, Derico Watson and Oteil Burbridge), the Vital Tech Tones (with Scott Henderson and Steve Smith), the indian jazz fusion guitarist Prasanna, and the “Extraction” trio (with Greg Howe and Dennis Chambers).
In 2008, Wooten joined Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller to record an album. The trio of bassists, under the name SMV, released Thunder in August 2008 and began a supporting tour the same month.
Wooten is most often seen playing Fodera basses, of which he has a signature model.
His most famous Fodera, a 1983 Monarch Deluxe which he refers to as “number 1”, sports a Kahler Tremolo System model 2400 bridge. Fodera’s “Yin Yang” basses (designed/created for Wooten) incorporate the Yin Yang symbol – which Wooten often uses in various media – as a main focal point of the top’s design and construction.
As well as playing electric bass both fretted and fretless, and the double bass, Victor also played the cello in high school. He still plays cello occasionally with the Flecktones. This is the instrument to which he attributes his musical training.
Albums include.
A Show of Hands (1996)
What Did He Say? (1997)
Yin-Yang (1999)
Live In America (2001)
Soul Circus (2005)
Links:
- Victor Lemonte Wooten – official website
- Victor Lemonte Wooten Interview with Anil Prasad of Innerviews
- Live performance photographs
- Interview from honesttune.com
- The Music Lesson website
- The Bass Vault
- Bass/Nature Camp
- Victor Wooten artist page at Guitar Video Channel
- Music as a language – Victor Wooten on TED-Ed