SMV [Clarke, Miller & Wooten – EPK]

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African American, Bass Guitar, Heads Up Records, Jazz Fusion

Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten each a powerful force of nature in his own right have done

SMV

more in recent decades to redefine the electric bass and push the limits of its potential than any other musician alive today. When these three titans collectively known as S.M.V. converge on the low frequencies, the results are no less than earth shaking.

Thunder, their debut collaboration on Heads Up International was released on August 12, 2008. SMV is a high-energy project that’s guaranteed to resonate throughout every corner of the jazz world. – Heads Up International

SMV Tour Dates: MarcusMiller.com

Herbie Hancock | V.S.O.P. [Classic Jazz/Fusion]

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African American, Funk, Jazz, Keyboards, Piano

Herbie Hancock, 77

V.S.O.P. is a landmark album in the history of jazz, though not at all in the way it was intended. George Wein organized a Herbie Hancock retrospective concert at the 1977 Newport Jazz Festival in New York where three bands from Hancock’s past and present — the 1965-1968 Miles Davis Quintet with Freddie Hubbard deputizing for the indisposed Miles, the 1969-1973 sextet, and Hancock’s then-current jazz-funk outfit — would share the stage. As things turned out, it was the Miles band reunion that grabbed most of the attention, leading to several tours which in turn inspired a whole generation of young musicians (led by Wynton Marsalis) to turn their backs upon electronics and make bop-grounded acoustic jazz the lingua franca of jazz for the rest of the 20th century.