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Victor Wooten: Live In America

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Label: Vanguard Records
Released: 2001
Time:
 57:42 / 60:49
Category: Jazz Fusion
Producer(s): Victor Wooten
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.victorwooten.com
Appears with: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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Disc 1

[1] Are You Ready, Baby? (Bootsy Collins) - 2:24
[2] What Did He Say? (J.D. Blair / Kurt Storey / Victor Wooten) - 6:53
[3] Hormones in the Headphones (Michael Kott) - 6:46
[4] Nobody Knows My Name (Joe Wooten / Victor Wooten) - 4:50
[5] Hero (Joe Wooten) - 5:06
[6] Yinnin' and Yangin'/Hey Girl (J.D. Blair / Victor Wooten) - 12:36
[7] Sacred Silence/The Jam Man (Victor Wooten) - 5:46
[8] Tappin' and Thumpin'/Born in the Dark/I Can't Make You Love Me (Regi Wooten) - 5:31
[9] James Brown/Iron Man (James Brown / Geezer Butler / Tony Iommi / Ozzy Osbourne / Black Sabbath / Bill Ward) - 7:46


Disc 2

[1] Miller Time: Panther/Teen Town (Marcus Miller / Jaco Pastorius) - 10:41
[2] Good People (Victor Wooten) - 7:52
[3] Imagine This (Victor Wooten) - 8:39
[4] I Dream in Color (Joe Wooten) - 4:17
[5 ] My Life (Victor Wooten) - 4:48
[6] U Can't Hold No Groove... (Victor Wooten) - 5:24
[7] Me and My Bass Guitar (Victor Wooten) - 4:40
[8] Pretty Little Lady (Victor Wooten) - 4:37
[9] If You Want Me to Stay/Thank You [Fallentin Me Be Mice Elf Agin] (Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart) - 9:47

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Victor Wooten - Arranger, Electric & Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Vocals, Producer
Joe Wooten - Keyboards, Theremin, Vocals on [2:4]
Marcus Miller - Electric Bass on [2:1]
Regi Wooten - Arranger, Electric Guitar, Vocals
Bootsy Collins - Electric Bass & Electric Guitar & Engineeron [1:1]
J.D. Blair - Drums, Vocals
Tony Byrd - Drums
Marcus Miller - Vocals
Michael Kott - Vocals
Sweet Lipps - Background Vocals
D. Walker - Rap

Kurt Storey - Editing, Engineer, Mixing
Zach Newton - Engineer
Randy LeRoy - Mastering
Greg Kessler  - Photography

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Victor Wooten's fourth solo record is a double-disc package documenting four years on the road with brothers Reggie Wooten (guitar and vocals) and Joseph Wooten (keyboards and vocals), as well as JD Blair (drums and vocals). The Wooten band serves up full-throttle funk, R&B, and pop power ballads, as well as feel-good fusion, often with a dash of hip-hop courtesy of rapper (and guest bassist) MC Divinity. The leader's widely celebrated bass virtuosity is on display throughout, but most explicitly during "Hey Girl," "Tappin' and Thumpin'," "Sacred Silence/The Jam Man," "Me and My Bass Guitar," and "Pretty Little Lady." Disc one begins with a studio-recorded introduction from P-Funk bass legend Bootsy Collins, disc two with a bass duel featuring fusion veteran Marcus Miller. Tributes to other musical heroes (Sly Stone, James Brown, and Jaco Pastorius) crop up during the course of the album's 118 combined minutes. While there's much to be said for their tightness and musicianship, Wooten and company can get bogged down in overly long jams, and some of their live schtick doesn't translate so well on record.

David R. Adler - All Music Guide



Victor Wooten's Live in America is a two-disc demonstration of what this electric bass legend is about. Primarily, he's about thump 'n' slap technique taken to the nth degree, and he's about mixing and matching the genres of funk, jazz and folk traditions. An integral part of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, on his own Wooten leans more toward the funky side. In Wooten's world, there's always a friendly party going on, and the accent is on pumping grooves. This band is essentially a continuation of the pre-Flecktones group, the Wooten Brothers, with guitarist Regi Wooten and keyboardist Joseph Wooten, who also sings on his own pretty gospel tune "I Dream in Color." Stellar guests show up, including Bootsy Collins on "Are You Ready, Baby?" and Marcus Miller, who offers his more rounded sound in dialogue with Wooten's bright-toned intricacies on the "Miller Time" medley that includes Jaco Pastorius' "Teen Town." Closing the album is a Sly and the Family Stone medley, "If You Want Me to Stay/Thank You (Falletin Me Be Mice Elf Agin)," underscoring the fact that Wooten and brothers are happily extending '70s musical culture, when the electric bass first came into its own.

Josef Woodard in April 2002
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