Dennis Chambers has dazzled you before and he's about to do it again. History will gaze fondly on this man. Dennis Chambers will rank among the top twenty drumset artists of the last hundred years. He's the one who left jaws dropping when he played with Parliament Funkadelic. And the one who put a sub-woofer under John Scofield for the tour/album Loud Jazz. He's now doing the monstrous thing, plus a little authoritative traffic control, with Santana. Given all that activity on stage, he may seem a little less prominent, but zoom in on Dennis Chambers—it's the same bombast, the same firm guidance, the same chops that nobody else's got. Those lightning single-stroke rolls; those jagged excursions that do not trail off when he gets to the lowest floor tom; those bulldozer grooves—they carry an implicit message: You want a piece of this? Better practice hard starting now or give up.

 




You'll gasp and you will rise up, jump and shout. Heck, we stood and applauded the moment he agreed to join the Montréal Drum Fest 2009. And again when Dennis told us who he was bringing....

Victor Wooten, solo artist (check out Soul Circus and Palmystery), ensemble artist (Bela Fleck, Dave Matthews, Mike Stern, Branford Marsalis, Chick Corea), and educator (host of stimulating summer camps), can hold his own no matter who he plays with. He's the one bassist who's on par technically and creatively with Jaco Pastorius. And he's one of the few who stands on level playing field with Dennis Chambers.

Dennis is Dennis. Victor is Victor. Known quantities, known qualities. You hear a couple of notes, you know them. Months later, in this instance months after the Montréal Drum Fest 2009, you will not shake the memory of their performance. This is as good as good gets.
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