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Victor Lemonte Wooten (born September 11, 1964) is an American bassist, songwriter, and record producer. He has been the bassist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones since the group's formation in 1988 and a member of the band SMV with two other bassists, Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller .
Victor Wooten auditioned over the phone and volunteered his brother Roy as a potential member. [2] After the PBS performance, Fleck decided to keep the group together, calling it Bela Fleck and the Flecktones and using it to explore a more complex series of his own compositions.
Left of Cool is the first album to feature Jeff Coffin, who had already toured with the band after the departure of Howard Levy.The album cover depicts Future Man, Béla Fleck, and Victor Wooten standing on Coffin's head.
Béla Anton Leoš Fleck (born July 10, 1958) is an American banjo player. An acclaimed virtuoso, he is an innovative and technically proficient pioneer and ambassador of the banjo, playing music from bluegrass, jazz, classical, rock and various world music genres. [ 1 ]
Roy Wooten, Regi, and his three younger brothers, Rudy (1959–2010) (saxophone), Joseph (keyboards), and Victor (bass guitar), performed as The Wooten Brothers in numerous musical venues in the Hampton Roads area of southeast Virginia during the 1970s. Wooten is a five-time Grammy Award-winning performer with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. [2]
All tracks composed by Béla Fleck; except where noted. "That Old Thing" (Intro)/"Earth Jam" (Fleck, Future Man, Victor Wooten) – 7:55 "Zona Mona" (Jeff Coffin, Fleck) – 6:34 "Ovombo Summit" (Future Man) – 2:48 "Hall of Mirrors" – 5:42 "Scratch & Sniff" (Fleck, Victor Wooten) – 6:43; Improv/"Amazing Grace" (John Newton) – 5:18
The album was produced by Fleck, Roy Wooten, Howard Levy, and Victor Wooten. [6] "Bonnie & Slyde" is a tribute to Bonnie Raitt and her slide guitar mastery. [7] "Sex in a Pan" was inspired by a dessert offered at a restaurant in North Carolina. [8]
Little Worlds is the tenth album by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, released in 2003.The album was released as a 3-disc set. Ten tracks from the set were also released on a single disc called Ten from Little Worlds.