When Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten and Stanley Clarke joined forces as SMV back in 2008, it was the obvious next step in each bassist’s long career. These three guys are among the most accomplished electric musicians in the nebulous funk, soul, and jazz arenas, having played with the world’s most acclaimed bandleaders between them. You’d expect a clash of egos, right? Envelope filters at dawn?
Far from it, according to Miller. “You know what?” he chuckles, talking to us between rehearsal sessions. “We just picked up our basses and started playing! I heard what Stanley was doing and what Victor was doing, and they sounded like they were playing in the high range and in the mid-range, so I just jumped right into the bottom and tried to fill that part up. I’m sure they did the same thing—just reacting to the other two players in the band.”
This generally ego-free approach is typical of Miller, who is that rare thing, a man wholly devoted to his own vision (“the voice”, he calls it), but entirely tolerant of the visions of others. He’s evolved a mature opinion of the way he used to play bass, as opposed to the way he plays it today. “I was a kid when I started playing,” he enthuses, “so I played like a kid plays—with energy. Young, male energy! I played the bass, man, that was who I was, but as you get older you start playing for different reasons. You want to keep that energy, but you want to use it more judiciously.”
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