![]() Perfecting, creating and discovering new techniques and jazz theory while incorporating and layering into strong funk grooves for keen listeners to uncover and pick up on is one of his many notable fortes.Īt only nine years old Regi started teaching his younger brother Victor Wooten bass guitar and Joseph Wooten keyboards, and soon the Wooten Brothers Band was formed featuring Regi on ukelele, Roy on drums, Rudy on Saxophone, Joe on Keys and Victor on bass. From picking, slapping, strumming, thumping, and tapping to some of the most ear bending advanced chords you’ll hear on any instrument, Regi has earned world-wide notoriety and comparisons to other innovators such as Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and Chuck Berry. Known as “The Teacha”, Regi Wooten is one of the most innovative, talented and dynamic musicians around the scene, and has pushed the boundaries of jazz, funk, soul, R&B, rock, and even bluegrass to some of the most extreme musical limits. ![]() I’ve always believed that if you write from your heart, your truth, it will touch someone’s heart as well. Of course, there’s a love song in there’. They are just my thoughts, my feelings and a few emotions put into song. “These songs are special because they are mostly about what we’re going through as a country and our struggles as a nation dealing with its past and looking to is future, and the growing pains associated with all that. His first project, ‘Love Izz” has been critically acclaimed by the music community as well as the general public.īizz currently works with multi Grammy award winning producer and writer Tommy Sims on a yet entitled EP. I learned so much about business, showmanship, and the importance of branding”.Ībout 6 years ago, he started a cover band called "Bizz and Everyday People” that has become one of the premier cover bands in Nashville and the country, but his first love has always been to create and perform program music. “Those were the best 5 years of my life”, says Bizz. That year they were also named "The #1 Wedding Band in America" by Vouge magazine. They traveled the country playing, from Clint Eastwood’s home in Carmel, California, to Diana Ross’s in Greenwich, Connecticut. ![]() While running lights in his dads’ band, the lead singer got sick, and his dad asked him could he fill in for a show or two. They gained local popularity in local clubs while he was honing his skills and writing songs. He then realized he was actually pretty good at this.īizz developed several bands while in high school, and after college, he put a band together called “Bizz and The Crew”. He started his first group at 9 doing Jackson 5 covers while in middle school and winning most of The High School talent shows they entered. I said to myself then “I want to do that, that looks like fun’”. “I remember when I was 4 or 5 years old my grandmother would let me stay up and watch my dad on ‘Night Train’. The eldest son of Nashville legend Jimmy Church, Bizz has opened up for The Godfather of Soul James Brown, The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, The King of Rock and Roll, Little Richard and many more. Only our tables and bar seats will have guaranteed seating for this show.īizz is an accomplished artist and songwriter who has played on Nashville stages and shows around the country and Canada for more than 20 years. General admission tickets will have standing room as well as limited seating. General admission tickets for the front section are not guaranteed to have seats as we will have a large part of the front section seating cleared for the dance floor. Tickets for bar seats and tables are available as well. Melvin Macias (piano/vocals), Jesus Agreda (Timbales), Lorenzo Molina Ruiz (Trumpet), Manuel 'Manotas' Ramierez (multi-Percussion), and Giovanni Rodriguez (bass/vocals).įor this show general admission tickets are available for standing and sitting in the front section of the room near the stage with the dance floor. ![]() A Nashville favorite on the Salsa and jazz scene and electric night of Salsa dancing! Multi-instrumentalist Giovanni Rodriguez, one of Nashville's leading percussionists, bassists and favorite on the Salsa and jazz scene, plays the sounds of salsa, bachata and percussion-driven rhythms with some of the most seasoned veterans in the Nashville Latin music scene. ![]()
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