Victor Wooten & The Wooten Brothers @ Old Rockhouse

Victor Lemonte Wooten (born September 11, 1964) is an American bass player, composer, author, producer, educator, and recipient of five Grammy Awards.  Wooten has won the “Bass Player of the Year” award from Bass Player magazine three times and is the first person to win the award more than once.  In 2011, he was named #10 in the “Top 10 Bassists of All Time” by Rolling Stone.  In addition to a solo career and collaborations with various artists, Wooten has been the bassist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones since the group’s formation in 1988.  In 2008, Wooten joined Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller to record an album.

The Wooten Brothers began in R+B.  They evolved as teens into Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Classical and Country.  Then, they emerged in 1985 on Arista records with an album called, “The Wootens”, that combined Electronic, Funk, Soul, Disco, and Boogie—and offered only a sliver of the Wooten whole.  The Wooten whole is all of that… and classical, and jazz, and country, and Rock-and-Roll.

As a family band, they are second to none.  But they are comparable to other notable family bands: The Beach Boys, the Allman Brothers, The Neville Brothers, and the Jackson Five.  Sonically inventive, soulful, musically driven, blood kin, that fill the dance floor, tickle the brain, and rock your world– they are comparable to the best of the best family bands.  The Wooten Brothers are the family band you need to know that you don’t know, or the family band you know, and want the world to know. Connecting a musically deep past to musical future, the Wooten Brothers explode genres and build bridges across genres.