Victor Wooten
Victor Lemonte Wooten (born September 11, 1964 in Hampton , Virginia ) is an American electric bassist , composer and music producer .
He was awarded five Grammys for his achievements . He was also named Bass Player of the Year three times in a row by Bass Player Magazine , making him the first to do so more than once.
Live and act
Wooten comes from a family of musicians and grew up with four brothers. His brother Regi is a guitarist, brother Roy plays percussion and drums . Since there was only one bass player missing in the family band, Regi Wooten taught his two-year-old brother to play. At the age of three he played with his family at small concerts in the neighborhood, at six he was with his brothers as opening act for Curtis Mayfield and War . In the 1980s he met the banjo player Béla Fleck and founded the band Béla Fleck and the Flecktones with him .
In addition to his work with the Flecktones, Victor Wooten recorded several solo albums on which he presented new possibilities of bass playing. Wooten is sometimes seen as the next electric bass innovator since Jaco Pastorius . His virtuosity in fingerstyle, slapping and tapping set new standards. He was also involved in recordings of Mike Stern and Bill Evans . Wooten is one of the best known representatives of double thumbing . He mentions Curtis Mayfield , Jaco Pastorius, James Jamerson , Larry Graham , Stanley Clarke and Prince as influences , where he appeared as a guest on May 7, 2004 at the Rocket Town music club in Nashville (Tennessee).
In addition to his concerts, Wooten lectures and publishes instructional DVDs. He organizes his multi-day workshops ("Bass Camps") at Wooten Woods, a site near Nashville in Tennessee that Wooten had specially converted for his purposes. He also teaches at the annual "Bass Camp" run by the German bass guitar manufacturer Warwick .
In 2006 he published the book Music Lesson. The story of a search for truth, wisdom and perfection, in which he describes his attempt to "reach out to what makes music so deeply."
Discographic notes
Albums under your own name:
- A Show Of Hands (1996)
- What Did He Say? (1997)
- Yin-Yang (1999)
- Live In America (2001)
- Soul Circus (2005)
- Palmystery (2008)
- Sword and Stone (Vix Records, 2012)
- Words and Tones (Vix Records, 2012)
With Steve Bailey :
- Bass Extremes 1
- Bass Extremes 2
- Bass Extremes 3
More publishments:
- Béla Fleck - Tales Of The Acoustic Planet I & II
- Henderson / Smith / Wooten - Vital Tech Tones
- Greg Howe , Victor Wooten, Dennis Chambers - Extraction (2003)
- SMV ( Stanley Clarke , Marcus Miller , Victor Wooten) - Thunder (2008)
Well-known songs:
- U can't hold no groove
- Sex in a Pan
- Flip flop
Web links
- Literature by and about Victor Wooten in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website of Victor Wooten
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c biography of Victor Wooten on his official website. Retrieved September 14, 2010 .
- ^ Grammy award winning bassist Victor Wooten to perform in Bangalore. Daily News & Analysis, accessed September 14, 2010 .
- ↑ Victor Wooten on Bassplayer.com ( Memento from October 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ^ Biography of Victor Wooten on the Flecktones website. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 21, 2010 ; accessed on September 17, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Wooten Woods homepage. Retrieved September 17, 2010 .
- ↑ Teresa Nehm: Audio: Next Generation - The Bass Camp in Markneukirchen ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: MDR Figaro , "The interactive magazine" of September 7, 2013.
- ↑ Stefan Braunschmidt / Dieter Roesberg: In close contact with the stars. In: Guitar & Bass , 11/2013, pp. 82–84.
- ↑ See Victor L. Wooten: Music Lesson. The story of a search for truth, wisdom and perfection, Irisiana Verlag (Random House), Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-424-15031-5
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wooten, Victor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wooten, Victor Lemonte (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American electric bass player, composer, and music producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hampton , Virginia |