Victor Wooten On Tour In Support of Tenth Album
First Album in Five Years Recorded With Renowned Musicians Dennis Chambers and Bob Franceschini
TRYPNOTYX Out Now To Widespread Acclaim
“Wooten and company make white knuckle rides seem like an A ticket on this accessible yet G Force of a trip.” –Jazz Weekly
“Whether
it’s through his music or other life interests, Victor Wooten is
constantly looking for ways to innovate and make the world a better,
more interesting place.”—Chicago Sun-Times
“Wooten
and his mates are sculptors of a sort, gleefully going all funkadelic
with the electronics, inventing impossible rhythms or just tossing
around a playfully virtuosic lick or two.”—Relix
“The
supreme talent and skill drenching this album from start to finish
attest to, if nothing else, the heights of artistic accomplishment
humans with all their flaws can reach. The disc is a joy from beginning
to end.” —Blogcritics
Five-time GRAMMY award-winning bass player, producer, composer, author, and educator Victor Wooten is on tour in support of his 10th album and first in five years, TRYPNOTYX, released September 8. A full list of dates is below.
Produced by Wooten, TRYPNOTYX features
legendary drummer Dennis Chambers (Bootsy Collins, Santana), veteran
saxophonist Bob Franceschini (Mike Stern, Paul Simon), and also features
singer Varijashree Venugopal and comedian/voicetrumentalist Michael
Winslow (Police Academy). The album is now available for pre-order.
From
the sizzling “Funky D,” which features Winslow’s voice and sound
effects and recalls the night a kindergarten-aged Wooten saw the
Godfather of soul on stage for the first time, to “Cupid,” which
features bucolic textures, a sylvan flute, and spoken word exchanges
with Wooten and his children, themes from his life thread through the
album, tying virtuoso performance and life experience together.
“Music
is a great way – and a safe way – to teach just about any life
principle,” Wooten insists. “To be in a band, you have to listen to each
other. Bands are at their best when every instrument is different, not
the same. Everyone takes turns talking. Everyone speaks their voice. A
lot of times musicians might ask, ‘What would you like me to play?’ I
say, “Listen to the music. The music will tell you exactly what it
needs.”
Named “one of the Top 10 Bassists of All Time” by Rolling Stone, he has been voted “Bassist of the Year” three times by Bass Player magazine reader’s poll, and in February 2017 Huffington Post named him one of “50 Iconic Black Trailblazers,” pictured just after President Barack Obama.
The
youngest of five boys, Wooten began playing music at two years old, and
was playing gigs by the tender age of five with the family band, the
Wooten Brothers, opening for Curtis Mayfield and War, among others. He
first “wowed music heads” nationwide (Kansas City Star) in 1987, as a founding member of Béla Fleck & The Flecktones.
Not
only an accomplished musician, Wooten is also an acrobat, magician, and
skilled naturalist, who created Victor Wooten’s Center for Music and
Nature, a 147-acre retreat in Tennessee for people of all ages. As an
author, he penned a novel, The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search For Growth through Music,
which is now part of the curriculum at The Berklee College of Music,
where he is a performance scholar in residence, Stanford University, and
other prestigious institutions.
VICTOR WOOTEN TRIO TOUR
February 15-17 — Billboard Live Japan — Tokyo, Japan
March 1-2 — Alumni Auditorium — Beavercreek, OH
March 23 — Paramount Theatre — Austin, TX
March 24 — Granada Theater — Dallas, TX
March 24 — Granada Theater — Dallas, TX
March 25 — Warehouse Live Ballroom — Houston, TX
March 27 — Old Rock House — St. Louis, MO
March 28 — City Winery — Nashville, TN
March 29 — Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center — Birmingham, AL
March 29 — Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center — Birmingham, AL
April 3 — The Broadberry — Richmond, VA
April 4 — Rams Head On Stage — Annapolis, MD
April 5 — Shea Center for Performing Arts — Wayne, NJ
April 6 — JE Broyhill Civic Center — Lenior, NC
April 6 — JE Broyhill Civic Center — Lenior, NC
April 7 — Berks Jazz Festival — Reading, PA
April 25 — The Redstone Room — Davenport, IA
April 26 — SPACE — Evanston, IL
April 28 — Bell’s Eccentric Cafe — Kalamazoo, MI
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