Recent tours included Bass Extremes and fellow bass legends Lee Sklar and Jonas Hellborg in the three bass group JoStLe.Ĭombining 35 years as a working musician and ten years faculty experience at B.I.T.

His latest album is a collection of duets featuring Willie Nelson, Ian Anderson, Ron Carter, Anthony Jackson, and Susan Hagen, and a recent multi-bass production, Warwick’s Fuss On The Buss 2, a live DVD, featuring Bootsy Collins, Larry Graham, Robert Trujillo, Lee Sklar, as well as many others.įor over 25 years he has partnered with fellow bassist Victor Wooten in the cutting-edge group, Bass Extremes, and their newest venture,, an interactive/educational online experience. He has been voted in the top 5 Bass Players in World and was a regular columnist for Bass Player Magazine. He has written six books and released numerous solo CD’s and instructional DVD’s. Steve has performed solo concerts and clinics all over the world. Among other things, Victor is a loving husband and father of four, a skilled naturalist, and a published author of two novels - The Music Lesson and The Spirit of Music, both available also as audiobooks. These programs are held at Victor and his wife’s 146-acre retreat center called Wooten Woods. Wooten has also become widely known for Vix Camps, a not-for-profit organization that has continued to run music and nature camps since the year 2000. In 2011, Rolling Stone Magazine voted Victor one of the Top Ten Bassists of ALL TIME. In 2008 Wooten co-created SMV, a bass super-trio, with two of his heroes and fellow bassists Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller. Currently, he is a five-time Grammy winner who hit the worldwide scene in 1990 as a founding member of the super-group Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Victor is the youngest of five musical brothers and began playing the bass guitar at the tender age of two years old. The Bass Vault is a “safe” place for all to talk about, learn, and explore all things Bass…and much more! To join all the regular lessons, concerts, special content, webinars, and other stuff that we haven’t even thought of yet, click here.

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