Birthday: May 5

1. Is the youngest of 11 children
2. Discovered Jazz at 14
3. Considered a master of the 6-string bass
4. Member of UZEB, who reunited in 2016
5. Does most of his writing at the piano

• We Are All In This Together: January 2021 Issue
• Review – Bass Line Continuum By Jason Raso
• Bass Player Alain Caron
• Alain Caron, From A to Z – Bass Musician Magazine, September 2017 Issue – Part 3
• Alain Caron, From A to Z – Bass Musician Magazine, September 2017 Issue – Part 2
• Alain Caron, From A to Z – Bass Musician Magazine, September 2017 Issue
• Alain Caron’s 25 Year UZEB Reunion Tour
• Bass Musician Magazine NAMM 2016 – Markbass 15th Anniversary
• BASS LINES BY JAIME VAZQUEZ: THE SIXTEENTH-NOTE GROOVE PART II – ALAIN CARON’S STYLE
• Bass Musician Magazine Friends…
• Interview with Alain Caron
• Stretch’s & Jumps
• 5-Dim Scale
• Musical Concepts: Harmonic Minor Scale
• Alain Caron | “Conversations”
• Musical Concepts with Alain Caron
• Bass Musician Magazine: October – November 07 Issue With Alain Caron

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Birthday: September 11

1. Is the youngest of 5 brothers, all musicians, who played at Busch Gardens in Virginia
2. Victor wrote, “The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music”
3. Co-designed his “Yin Yang” Fodera bass
4. Has a Bass/Nature Camp at Wooten Woods, located in Tennessee
5. Is part of the S.M.V. trio, (Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten), who released Thunder

• Bass Extremes – Steve Bailey And Victor Wooten
• Victor Wooten Bass Workshop: The Language of Music and How to Speak It
• Victor Wooten and Steve Bailey’s BASS EXTREMES Celebrate 30th Anniversary With S’Low Down
• Victor Wooten on “The Spirit Of Music”
• Watch Bass Legend Victor Wooten Makes Some Funk-“E” Magic
• Winter NAMM 2020 – Victor Wooten for Hartke
• Winter NAMM 2020 – Victor Wooten and John Ferrara Jam at the Hartke Booth
• BASS 2 BASS with FREEKBASS – Victor Wooten
• Bass Player Victor Wooten
• Victor Wooten Presents ‘Fun & Funk Xplosion’ Tour With Special Guest Sinbad
• Ended – Enter to Win the Wooten Woods Bass/Nature Camp Scholarship Fund!
• Bass Musician Magazine on Location with Victor Wooten
• CD Review – Tryptonyx by Victor Wooten
• New Haiti 10 Documentary Featuring Victor Wooten Debuts
• Victor Wooten To Release TRYPNOTYX
• Bunny Brunel and Stanley Clarke Bring Notable Bass Players Together for this Historical New Bass CD
• Mark Marxon Meme Monday – The First Time You Watch Victor Wooten
• Bass Musician Magazine NAMM 2016 – NAMM 2016 Photos Part Three
• Bass Musician Magazine NAMM 2016 – NAMM Friends
• Bass Musician Magazine NAMM 2016 – Hartke Amps Presents Victor Wooten
• Bass Musician Magazine NAMM 2016 – Victor Wooten performs at the DR String Booth
• Bass Lines: Famous Bass Intros – Part V – “The Sinister Minister”
• Victor Wooten’s Sex in a Pan
• A Report on a Victor Wooten Workshop in Budapest
• Cody Wright Bass Solo, Blackbird
• Victor Wooten Huge Holiday Sale
• The Right Hand Rasgueo of The Lesson by Rhayn Jooste
• Bass Musician Magazine Featuring Steve Bailey – August 2011 Issue
• The Collective School of Music Updates and Expands the Bass Collective
• Victor Wooten’s The Music Lesson Now Available as Audio Book, Distributed by Alfred
• The Music Lesson on CD by Victor Wooten
• Victor Wooten | “Palmystery”
• The Music Lesson by Victor Wooten, a Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
• Bass Musician Magazine Featuring Victor Wooten / Feb-Mar 2008 Issue

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Birthday: Feb 8

1. Comes from a musical family (Mom = Opera Singer / Dad = Musicologist)
2. Attended the Berklee College of Music, where he met Steve Vai and Joe Satriani
3. He was inspired to create his latest CD from Patrick Xavier’s diary
4. Fans are not ‘BOO-ing’ Stu during concerts, they are ‘STU-ing’ him, which sounds like ‘BOO-ing’

• Stu Hamm, Hold Fast – September 2023 Issue
• Album Review: Stu Hamm, Hold Fast
• Stuart Hamm Bass Transcriptions – The Early Years
• Online Bass with Stu Hamm: Pre-sales LIVE + Special Perks!
• Artist Update With Stu Hamm… New ArtistWorks Course and More!
• The Missing Song Features All-star Bass Lineup
• Bass Player Stu Hamm
• Bass Icon Stu Hamm To Tour The US In Support Of New Album “The Diary of Patrick Xavier”
• The Diary of Patrick Xavier by Stu Hamm
• Alberto Rigoni Releases “Mad Tex” Video Features Legendary Bassist Stu Hamm
• Bass Musician Magazine Interviews Stu Hamm
• Stu Hamm, More Than A Monster – Bass Musician Magazine, August 2015 8th Anniversary Issue
• The Sky There’ll Always Be – New CD Featuring Tony Levin, Billy Sheehan and Stu Hamm
• Kala U-Bass Day at Musicians Institute with Stu Hamm, Abraham Laboriel, and Bakithi Kumalo
• Just Outside Of Normal by Stuart Hamm
• Pulso By Marcelo Yakko
• Interview with Stu Hamm…Rock Bass: Artist Spotlight with Biscuit

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Birthday: May 28

1. Likes mandolin frets on all of his basses
2. In the early 70’s he purchased a candy-apple, metallic-flake Fender bass for $90, which he proceeded to ‘customize’ with a hack-saw, chisel and decoupage
3. Has a franken-bass consisting of P-bass body, a Jazz-bass neck with mandolin frets and two sets of P-bass pickups
4. He has a signature Warwick bass, which carries his signature ‘finger’ salute

• Leland Sklar, Over Half a Century of Bass, March 2024
• New Studio Album: The Immediate Family, Skin In The Game
• New EP: The Immediate Family, Live from Telefunken Soundstage
• Out Now, The Immediate Family Self-titled Album!
• What’s New With Leland Sklar
• New Book: Lee Sklar, Everybody Loves Me
• Lee Sklar News: The Immediate Family New EP Slippin’ And Slidin’
• “Immediate Family” Follows Up On “The Wrecking Crew”
• Review – Bass Line Continuum By Jason Raso
• Bass Player Lee Sklar
• Beneath The Bassline – Bass Greats Assemble For New Documentary
• Lee Sklar, Transcending Bass – Bass Musician Magazine, February 2017 NAMM Issue
• Bass Musician Magazine NAMM 2016 – NAMM Friends

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Birthday: December 8

1. Was 16 years old when he went on the road with Barry White
2. Holds a BA degree in Music from the University of California, San Diego
3. Founding member of Fourplay
4. Released his first ever debut self-titled solo album on March 25, 2014 on Yamaha Entertainment Group label, which included his 13-year-old son Noah East

• Album Review: Fourplay 30th Anniversary Edition
• Remastered Album: Fourplay (30th Anniversary)
• CD Review: The Best of Fourplay, Remastered
• Fourplay – Best of Fourplay Remastered
• Watch Nathan East Share Tips for Playing with Feel – Sponsored
• Yamaha BBNE2 Nathan East Signature Model Review
• Conversation with Nathan East… His Yamaha BBNE2 Signature Bass
• Bass Player Nathan East
• Beneath The Bassline – Bass Greats Assemble For New Documentary
• Review – TC Electronic Spectra Comp Bass Compressor
• Video Interview with Nathan East On His Upcoming Album, “Reverence”
• Nathan East Releases Star-Studded Cover of “Serpentine Fire”
• Nathan East Announces ‘Reverence’
• VOLUME 1: Through the Lens of Music Photographer Rob Shanahan – Featuring Photos of Paul McCartney, Sting, Nathan East, Michael Anthony and More
• Review – Fourplay “Silver”
• CD Review – The New Cool with Nathan East and Bob James
• Nathan East Looks Back – For The Record
• Nathan East Earns GRAMMY Nomination for Solo Debut
• Nathan East: Dramatic Debut Solo Album – Bass Musician Magazine, March 2014 Issue
• Bass Education
• Lee Ritenour: Rhythm Sessions (Bassists: Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Nathan East, others)
• Michael Jackson: Bad 25th Anniversary Deluxe (Bassists: Nathan East, Don Boyette)
• September 2012 Issue of Bass Musician Magazine
• Bass Musician Magazine Featuring Nathan East / January 2011 Issue
• Nathan East DVD: The Business Of Bass
• Bass Musician Magazine: Dec07/Jan08 Issue Featuring Nathan East

Nathan & Son Noah Record “Yesterday”

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