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  Victor Wooten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victor is also famous for his Stanley Jordan-like two-handed tapping and trademark open-hammer-pluck technique.
Wooten is most often seen playing Fodera basses, of which he has a signature model.
According to Wooten, when speaking or listening, we don't focus on the mouth as it is forming words; similarly, when a musician is playing or performing, the focus shouldn't be on the instrument.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victor_Wooten   (727 words)

  
 Victor Wooten   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Wooten’s wide range of musical tastes reflected in the album are also reflected in his choices of projects.
Wooten was born into the role of bass player in the family band his four older brothers had formed when they were young.
Wooten and his band pride themselves on being adept at pulling an audience into the performance.
www.marqueemag.com /06_05/victor.html   (709 words)

  
 Victor Wooten Bass Guitars
Victor Wooten is one of the most celebrated electric bassists of all time.
Victor himself would be the first to tell you how his solo work is influenced by those around him.
Victor made his professional stage debut at age five with "The Wooten Brothers Band", the five-brother band that started out playing covers and later opened concert tours for Curtis Mayfield and War.
celebrityrockstarguitars.com /rock/wooten.htm   (1007 words)

  
 Glide Magazine Reviews - Victor Wooten 4/05/2005
Wooten, seen by many as the best bassist in the world, should need no introduction, so I’ll spare you what you already know and get on to the show.
Victor Wooten’s current touring band, featuring two of his four musical brothers, known collectively as the “Soul Circus” (touring behind the recently released Soul Circus album) may prove to be the link between George Clinton’s Mothership Connection and the funk of the future.
Then Wooten went on to defy all laws of speed and motion as he delivered one of his trademark solos.
www.glidemagazine.com /1/reviews787.html   (528 words)

  
 Victor Wooten: Sould Circus
Victor Wooten counts Marcus Miller among his influences, and on his ne CD Soul Circus he displays an interest in combining various musical styles without regard for boundaries.
Wooten has a lot of work under his belt, including his longstanding gig with Bela Fleck’s Flecktones, but he is still young and developing when compared with Miller.
Maybe it could have worked, but Wooten’s commitment to the individual elements he adds to the mix would have to be greater.
www.jazzitude.com /wooten_circus.htm   (572 words)

  
 Me and My Bass Guitar; The life and music of Victor Lemonte Wooten
Wooten's world is bigger than that though, and once you read his story, you'll understand not only the man he is, but also the gift he's given the world of music."
The history is related through stories, photographs and in-depth interviews with Victor, his family, friends and some of the most respected musicians on the global stage.
There are chapters about the martial arts and their influence on Victor and his music, tracking and Victor's biannual Bass and Nature Camp, (Victor is an accomplished survivalist and tracker trained by noted author and teacher Tom Brown, Jr.) and a chapter about Victor's talented brothers.
www.meandmybassguitar.com   (1034 words)

  
 Fame & Fortune: Victor Wooten (Page 1 of 2)
Victor Wooten is one of those performers that other musicians speak of in hushed tones.
Wooten, meanwhile, has carved out an impressive solo career while bolstering his reputation.
Victor and the band are currently on tour promoting "Soul Circus," a tour that will include select dates opening for Dave Matthews Band.
www.bankrate.com /brm/news/investing/20050920b1.asp   (617 words)

  
 Victor Wooten - Biography - AOL Music
By 1988, Victor Wooten moved to Nashville to join a rock band, and the following year met Béla Fleck, the banjo player for New Grass Revival.
Fleck was forming a jazz group to appear on a TV show; he recruited Wooten, his brother Roy on drums, and Howard Levy on keyboards and harmonica.
As the '90s progressed, Wooten added a solo recording career and numerous collaborations to his duties in the Flecktones.
music.aol.com /artist/victor-wooten/139737/biography   (341 words)

  
 Victor Wooten: If people were more like music...
Victor Wooten: If people were more like music...
Wooten utilizes one of the most unique and complex approaches ever devised in the electric bass guitar's short history.
Wooten's technique enables him to perform solo on his bass exactly the same way a guitarist would—with all of the same flexibility, subtlety, warmth and lyricism.
www.innerviews.org /inner/wooten.html   (10638 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Victor Wooten   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Wooten first began laying down bottom lines at 5, and he and his brothers (including Roy "Future Man" Wooten, now a Flecktone) made one recording that sunk without a trace.
Wooten's a tough act to follow, but Will Bernard's quartet is up to the challenge.
Victor Wooten and Will Bernard play Saturday (Oct. 12) at 8:30pm at the Agenda Lounge, 399 S. First St., San Jose.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.10.96/wooten-9641.html   (281 words)

  
 Victor Wooten
Her childlike babblings and occasional clear words, were painstakingly studied by Victor, tearing each phrase apart and building a bass accompaniment to the child's voice.
So it was rare treat to talk to Victor and hear this somewhat famous young ladies voice talking to her Dad as he tried to balance being the attentive Dad with the equally attentive interview subject.
Victor is known, aside from his incredible playing, as a even tempered sort of person that demands a lot of himself.
www.globalbass.com /archives/nov2001/victor_wooten.htm   (5017 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Soul Circus: Music: Victor Wooten   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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Victor clearly has a soft spot for R&B, specifically soul, funk and a dash of hip hop.
I first heard of Wooten playing as a member of the Flecktones, and he was great in that context.
www.amazon.com /Soul-Circus-Victor-Wooten/dp/B0007TKHP2   (1325 words)

  
 Rockzilla.net Victor Wooten "Live in America" by Reid Mitchell
Live in America is a two CD set designed to show what jazz and funk bassist extraordinaire Victor Wooten and his brothers sound like in their live shows.
Wooten's core band consists of himself on bass and a bass-driven synthesizer, Regi Wooten on electric guitar, Joseph Wooten on keyboards and that Soviet-invented outer space instrument, the theremin, and J.D. Blair on drums.
Victor Wooten shouldn't be labeled a funk player or a jazz musician.
www.rockzilla.net /rockzilla/mitchell5.html   (679 words)

  
 Sheet Music Plus - Victor Wooten
Victor also discusses his thoughts about music as a language, the tradition of the electric bass, inspiration and practicing, and provides a brilliant 30-minute private lesson on technique.
Special DVD Features: an additional 60-minute interview in which Victor discusses the techniques he is working on now * influences (including Stanley Clarke, Bootsy Collins, Larry Graham, Jaco, Curtis Mayfield and Prince) * a multi-language feature to view the DVD in Spanish, German and Japanese * a beautiful unaccompanied solo by Victor.
Victor Wooten: Super Bass Solo Technique Video (VHS) For electric bass guitar...
www.sheetmusicplus.com /a/item.html?item=3981521&id=79590   (195 words)

  
 Victor Wooten
Victor Lamonte Wooten, Grammy nominated for his third solo album ‘YIN YANG’, brilliant melodic bassist for Bela Fleck and the Flecktones and accomplished solo artist, sits down for a chat with Orin Isaacs, fellow bassist and band leader for Canada award winning comedy and talk show OPEN MIKE with Mike Bullard.
There is a part of me that wanted to be the one talking to Victor, but to tell the truth, one thing I learned a while ago is to ‘hire up’.
Orin also plans a second solo album soon, that if I have my way, will tear up the charts, forcing him to face the fact that he is not only gonna turn some heads, he’s gonna have to deal with the fact that he is just going to have to tour.
www.globalbass.com /archives/sept2000/victa.htm   (5763 words)

  
 Victor Wooten '99   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Victor Lemonte Wooten came to Muskegon and joined with Mona Shores Jazz students and Percussion Instructor
In addition to performing with us at the 1st Annual Mona Shores Jazz Masters Series concert in the MSPAC, Victor and Derico joined MS Jazz Ensemble I for a performance in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan's Rackham Center Auditorium during the annual Midwestern Conference on School Vocal and Instrumental Music.
Victor's warmth, generosity of spirit and passion for his art were truely an inspiration for all of us.
www.mona-shores.k12.mi.us /msbands/victor_wooten_concert.htm   (131 words)

  
 Victor Wooten Camp Awakening CD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Victor Wooten Camp Awakening CD Woot Camp Awakening CD Want to see what the product of the Victor Wooten Bass/Nature camp is? Sure you do!
This Cd is the product of alumni from the first Victor Wooten's Bass/Nature Camps, which was held in October 2000.
It was a priviledge to take lessons from Victor, Steve Bailey, Adam Nitti, Regi Wooten and nature lessons from Victor and the naturalists he brought to the camp.
www.jaytv.com /store/wootencd/wootencd.htm   (292 words)

  
 Glide Magazine Reviews - Victor Wooten
For his first solo album in four years, Victor Wooten is still establishing himself as an innovator and growing musician.
Also adding to the mix are a heaping helping of Wooten’s good friends, family, and great bass players.
While most of the guests only sing and leave it up to Victor to represent his favorite bass lines it is a fully powerful piece.
www.glidemagazine.com /2/reviews800.html   (393 words)

  
 Victor Wooten & Carter Beauford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Wooten (of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones) and Mr.
Beauford (drummer for the Dave Matthews Band) have been friends since childhood, their collaboration on Wooten's 1999 YIN-YANG album marks the first time the pair have recorded together.
Critics found the big-screen adaptation of Dan Brown's phenomenally successful page-turner mostly inert, but their opinions had no effect on the rest of the movie-going public.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/victor_wooten_and_carter_beauford   (373 words)

  
 Victor Wooten News
News about Victor Wooten continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
For years, Victor Wooten has been asking one question of people who come to see him perform or learn about playing the bass at his camps and clinics.
Since their debut album in 1990, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones have been fusing bluegrass, jazz, world, funk pop and every other conceivable genre of music with virtuosic musicianship and a whimsical,...
www.topix.net /who/victor-wooten?removemenu=who/victor-wooten   (263 words)

  
 KODAK: LIVE Events Bassist Victor Wooten & photographer Greg Kessler - Photographing Bass Camp and The Flecktones
Greg and Victor will share their pictures and stories at kodak.com.
Victor Wooten, the band's bassist, recently invited Kessler to photograph his bass camp, where aspiring and established musicians gather from around the world to trade licks and sharpen their styles.
Tonight, Victor and Greg co-host the kodak.com chat room to share pictures and stories.
www.kodak.com /US/en/corp/magazine/transcripts/11-09-2000.1-1.shtml   (651 words)

  
 "Victor Wooten" - Shopping.com
Wooten, baxs virtuoso and Baxs Player Magazine's Baxs Player of the Year for 1997 and 1998,...
Steve Bailey and Victor Wooten demonstrate how the bass guitar can supply Bass lines, piano and...
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 Victor Wooten - AOL Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Wooten Brothers band (Regi, Rudy, Roy, Joseph and Victor) played for many years...
As a child, his older brother Regi Wooten helped Victor develop his...
Download, listen and watch Victor Wooten music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
music.aol.com /artist/victor-wooten/139737/main   (116 words)

  
 Victor Wooten
Victor Wooten Is Credited On The Following CDs
Victor Wooten - Bass on "These Are Odd Times"
Victor Wooten - Bass and Bass Solo on "Yin & Yang"
www.guitar9.com /summvictorwooten.html   (130 words)

  
 Putfile - thumpoff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
That's Victor Wooten with the fl/red shirt - he's the sheeit.
Thats Victor Wooten and his older brother Reggie Wooten.
victor wooten and his big brother arpegio wooten (no im not kidding) they both rock check out arpegio on the electric guitar
media.putfile.com /thumpoff   (257 words)

  
 Victor Wooten - Amazing Grace Video
Amazing piece by an amazing bass player Victor Wooten..
this is very cool, but in my opinion wooten make too much tapping...
It lets you see the bass guitar in a whole new light..
www.metacafe.com /watch/45171/victor_wooten_amazing_grace   (147 words)

  
 CMT.com : Victor Wooten : Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
New group earn success with their debut single.
At age three, his brother Regi taught him to play bass, and at age five he made his stage debut with his four older
brothers in the Wootens, playing songs by R&B mainstays like James Brown, Sly & the Family Stone, War, and Curtis Mayfield.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/wooten_victor/bio.jhtml   (328 words)

  
 Victor Wooten MP3 Downloads - Victor Wooten Music Downloads - Victor Wooten Music Videos
At age three, his brother Regi taught him to play bass, and at age five he made his stage debut with his four older brothers in the Wootens,...
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 Victor Wooten - Soul Circus :: Vote Page
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 Skyline Music :: Victor Wooten
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As Bela Fleck's bassist and through his own solo releases, Victor is gathering a fast growing following of his own.
Voted "World's Best Bassist" three times, Victor's secret seems to lie in breaking boundaries and defying categorization along the way.
skylineonline.com /wooten.shtml   (48 words)

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