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Bassist Victor Wooten, best known for his work with Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, joins two other contemporary bass greats, Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller, on the new SMV CD Thunder. The Heads Up International release features the three playing a variety of bass instruments together on a collection of material written by the artists. Wooten, who remembers his first meeting with Clarke when he was...
The first commercially available transistor radio came out in 1954–the year before I was born. By the time I was six years old, Sony of Japan had captured a large share of the market. Hiding under the covers (well past bedtime), listening to Houston’s Top 40 station KILT-AM, I was exposed to many songs/performers that [...]
Marcus Miller performs as part of S.M.V. with Stanley Clarke and Victor Wooten this Saturday at Times Square's Nokia Theater. Tickets available here . Five days before the release of Thunder, the debut album by a unique gathering of three accomplished bassists, Marcus Miller (the "M" of S.M.V.) answers his cell phone from the front porch of his Los Angeles home. The Brooklyn-born and Queens-raised...
Pavarotti, Domingo and Carreras did not do their most historic work in opera as the Three Tenors. Similarly, the supergroup S.M.V., featuring bassists Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten, seems more a way to maximize turnout than to create music of enduring significance.
There's only one place for every self-respecting bass player and bass lover with $30 to spare tomorrow night: the S.M.V. Thunder Tour's only Canadian stop, at Sound Academy on Polson St., comprised of arguably the most influential contemporary electric bass guitarists, Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten.
How does a music writer spend a very rainy vacation in Warren, Vt.? Listening to lots of upcoming album releases, then sharing some of the best as a guest DJ on the local community radio station WMRV-FM - "The voice of the Mad River Valley." Tal
At Wolf Trap on Saturday night, Stanley Clarke recalled conversations he had with two late jazz greats -- fellow bassists Charles Mingus and Jaco Pastorius. They all agreed that one day someone should form a "bass army."
SMV, (l-r) Victor Wooten, Stanley Clarke, and Marcus Miller Assembling a supergroup always seems like a good idea -- in theory. Practice proves otherwise, often leading to disappointment in the form of terrible music. The trepidation associated with SMV, a group co-led by groundbreaking bassists Stanley Clarke , Marcus Miller , and Victor Wooten , and their new release, Thunder , came in several forms....
A 21-year-old taxi operator, who was arrested and charged with indecent assault, was given bail, when he appeared in the Santa Cruz Resident Magistrate's Court last week.
In support of their 2008 reunion tour, Concord Records has released Return to Forever: The Anthology, a selective overview of the quartet's classic 'middle period.' Formed by principal composer/keyboardist Chick Corea, RTF included bassist Stanley Clarke, drummer Lenny White and guitarists Bill Connors or Al DiMeola...
How much low frequency pummelling can you take? With its opening gladiators-enter-the-arena music and naff back cover pic of the Fender-slinging trio against a stormy, apocalyptic sky, this supergroup session by fusion bassists Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten should be unspeakably awful.
"This is a really thrilling night for me -- my hometown and everything," Chick Corea told a Tampa Bay area audience openly hyped about the first tour in 25 years by Return to Forever, the keyboardist's seminal fusion band.
It's been a busy year for Stanley Clarke. Besides his reunion tour with Return To Forever, the Philadelphia-born bassist has released two new CDs: a solo album, "The Toys of Men," and "Thunder," an unusual project with fellow bass masterminds Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten called S.M.V., which will return Clarke to Philly in a couple of weeks.
Return to Forever, the jazz-fusion group founded in the early 1970s by master pianist Chick Corea, is in the midst of a reunion tour that few thought would ever happen.
