“Thunder” combination – SMV!

Besides the over two hours of waiting the audience was completely blown by the bass trio later on!

On 20^th this month on the stage of Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture in Sofia performed one of the most expected musicians not only in Bulgaria, but also abroad – Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten, and that to with their common project, SMV.

The three outstanding instrumentalists, each of them a bass virtuoso and a proved composer, gather spontaneously before a bit more than a year. It all starts on the award ceremony of the magazine Bass Player in 2006 where Stanly Clarke receives a Life Achievement Award, after which Marcus and Victor come on stage for a little jam session with him. The audience responds so strongly that this inspires the musicians for future common work. This is how one of the youngest jazz projects is born… and one of the strongest, having in mind who stays behind it.

The bass trio comes after the invitation from Sofia Music Enterprises as a part of this year’s edition of Sofia Music Jam. SMV were probably the first headliner to be confirmed for this edition back in august when this provoked emotional outbursts among music appreciators. The concert is part of the first tour of the bend and presented their debut album – Thunder, released before two months.

The one and only thing that was near to fail the unique musical evening last Monday was the also unique delay of the concert which heated with negatively part of the audience, made to wait for the beginning near three hours. Regardless the bad emotions among some of the people, the true fans patiently remained on their seats and they definitely did the right thing. Stepping on the Stanley, Marcus and Victor were able to steal the attention of everyone just with few accords and dedicate it entirely to music. Performing with them were also Derico Watson on the drums and Federico Peña on keyboards.

Besides the 13 tracks from the album, the musicians presented also few unheard by the audience compositions as well as exceptional solo improvisations – Stanley Clarke on cello, Marcus Miller on bass clarinet and Victor Wooten on bass.

 

 

After the two-hour set the audience just could not let the bend go and applauded them on feet for several minutes continuously and made all five to come back for a final track and a reverence. In spite of the panic among the security, Marcus gave a sign to the guards to pull back and the three bass players went along to shake hands with the crowd that gathered in an instant in the orchestra chamber in front of the stage of Hall 1. At the end of the encore performance three of them gave autographs and some good quantity of drumsticks was sent in the air to the crowd. Such was the end of that unbelievable evening that gave some memorable musical experience “as for appreciators” to everyone that was there on the concert.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thearyn for
Stroeja.com