Victor Wooten
American bassist and songwriterWikipedia
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Sep 14, 2026
Mark ChalifouxGUEST
Well, uh, d- all right
Tom GriswoldHOST
... uh, happy birthday, uh, Victor Wooten.
Tom GriswoldHOST
Anyone?
Mark ChalifouxGUEST
Uh-
Christy LeeHOST
Victor Wooten
Mark ChalifouxGUEST
... is he a, is he a Cleveland Brown?
Tom GriswoldHOST
Uh, a v- very good guess.
Robert MillerHOST
She's got it all covered.
Robert MillerHOST
She performs at festivals and venues around the world, and she's played and recorded with stars like Danilo Perez, Terry Lynn Carrington, Charlie Hunter, and Victor Wooten, another fabulous bass player.
Robert MillerHOST
And she has her own podcast called Blind.
Robert MillerHOST
So what? Focusing on life and accessibility as a blind artist.
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Ciara MoserGUEST
Yeah.
Ciara MoserGUEST
So, I mean, I think like...
Ciara MoserGUEST
One of my biggest mentors is Victor Wooten.
Ciara MoserGUEST
I feel like before that already I thought that way but the philosophy of how things are being taught at Berklee where I went to study also after I studied in Austria I feel the philosophy of the bass and the concept of the bass being part of the rhythm section is super important and I think a lot of times people who learn bass only from Instagram or from like shred videos they don't actually know what a bass is supposed to do.
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Jazz fusion guitarist remembered as being an original member of Paul Schaeffer's house band on Late Night with David Letterman, otherwise known as the world's most dangerous band.
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Victor Wooten was born in 1964, widely considered to be one of the greatest bassists of all time.
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He revolutionized modern slap bass technique with the jazz fusion group Bella Fleck and the Flecktones.
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Harry Connick Jr. was born in 1967.
Greg MulhernGUEST
I'm ready.
Davis MichelsonHOST
Stu Hamm or Victor Wooten?
Greg MulhernGUEST
Oh, I gotta go with Victor Wooten.
Greg MulhernGUEST
I-
Davis MichelsonHOST
Victor Wooten.
Davis MichelsonHOST
Okay.
Greg MulhernGUEST
Yeah, I was, I was a huge Stuart Hamm fan back in the day.
Davis MichelsonHOST
Yeah, yeah
JordanHOST
There's a bass player who has that same...
JordanHOST
Victor Wooten.
JordanHOST
Yes.
Jeffrey StevensonGUEST
I've met him, yeah.
JordanHOST
There's a bass player who has that same...
JordanHOST
Victor Wooten.
JordanHOST
Yes.
Jeffrey StevensonGUEST
I've met him.
Jon EstesGUEST
It was cool growing up in Nashville where I think in other cities I might have just taken a lesson with Dave from the guitar shop.
Jon EstesGUEST
My parents actually got me lessons with Reggie Wooten, who's the older brother of Victor Wooten.
Jon EstesGUEST
Yeah, and so, like, I would go over to Reggie's house every week, and I got to know Victor, I got to know Jeff Coffin and Bela Fleck, and, like, that was my world growing up.
Jon EstesGUEST
It was wild.
Jesse JollyGUEST
But it's kind of got me thinking.
Jesse JollyGUEST
I was like, man, I'm such a huge fan of like, you know, Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller.
Jesse JollyGUEST
you know, Bill Dickens, you know, just all these killer bass players.
Jesse JollyGUEST
And I wanted to create a sort of industrial funk music with a medical twist to it.
Jeralyn GlassGUEST
He wrote the One of the books, This Is Your Brain on Music, and his new bestseller is I Heard There Was a Secret Chord, Music is Medicine.
Jeralyn GlassGUEST
So from his viewpoints to Victor Wooten, a dear friend who's a five-time Grammy Award-winning bass player.
Jeralyn GlassGUEST
So there's just different... different aspects of it, but how music truly is the universal language.
Jeralyn GlassGUEST
And knowing that, because I started my career at 19 on Broadway, and then I went into classical music and lived in Europe for many years.
Kevin LawrenceHOST
That's their reading of a Beatles classic.
Kevin LawrenceHOST
Bela Fleck on banjo, Howard Levy on diatonic harmonica We have Future Man on drums and the great Victor Wooten on electric bass.
Kevin LawrenceHOST
Now this band was founded back in 1988, and what they do, they mix jazz with bluegrass, rock, and classic funk.
Kevin LawrenceHOST
And before that, you heard music from vocalist and educator Mrs. Darden Purcell, and she's telling us it's a most unusual day.
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