Victor Wooten

Tue., April 1, 7:30 p.m., $28.50, Keswick Theatre, 291 Keswick Ave., Glenside, 215-572-7650, keswicktheatre.com.

by Mary Armstrong

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Published: Mar 26, 2008

funk/jazz

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You don't need to sell bassists on Victor Wooten; his peers have proclaimed him the best, via Bass Player mag, three different years. Flecktones fans also know — Wooten has helped determine that group's unique sound since its earliest days. The people who might need a nudge are the seekers, the wholistic thinkers, those wanting to see the world as completely interlaced. They will delight in Wooten's deep thinking. He makes some out-there concepts accessible in his newly reissued parable-novel, The Music Lesson (Berkeley). A wise man literally pops into the bass-playing narrator's life, urging and challenging. Jam! The stranger says that's how you learned your first language, just playing with it, so if music is the universal language, there's nothing to it but to do it. Palmystery (Heads Up), Wooten's new CD, is launching the day of his Keswick show. The tunes draw from many sources: funk, jazz, even a nod to flamenco. A South African-style chorus puts emphasis to "I Saw God the Other Day." The lyrics resonate strongly with words of the mystical teacher of The Music Lesson.

Tue., April 1, 7:30 p.m., $28.50, Keswick Theatre, 291 Keswick Ave., Glenside, 215-572-7650, keswicktheatre.com.

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