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Marcus Miller
Marcus Miller
American jazz musician
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Victor Wooten
Victor Wooten
American bass guitarist
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Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke
American bassist, film composer and founding member of Return to Forever
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Gerald Veasley
Gerald Veasley
American musician
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Larry Graham
Larry Graham
American bass guitar player
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Béla Fleck
Béla Fleck
American banjo player
6
Lenny White
Lenny White
American drummer
7
Steve Weingart
Steve Weingart
American musician
8
Jimmy Earl
Jimmy Earl
Musician, producer
9
Dean Brown
Dean Brown
American jazz fusion guitarist and session musician
10
Gerry Brown
Gerry Brown
American audio engineer
11
Jaco Pastorius
Jaco Pastorius
American jazz bassist, producer, educator
12
Mike Stern
Mike Stern
American jazz guitarist
13
Oteil Burbridge
Oteil Burbridge
American musician
14
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
band
15
Nitro
Nitro
American glam rock band
16
Alison Brown
Alison Brown
American musician
17
Rachel Z
Rachel Z
American jazz pianist
18
Thundercat
Thundercat
American musician
19
Steve Smith
Steve Smith
American drummer
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Chick Corea
Chick Corea
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
21
Kai Eckhardt
Kai Eckhardt
German musician
22
Ross Valory
Ross Valory
American guitarist
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George Duke
George Duke
American keyboardist, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer (1946-2013)
24
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
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Tom Malone
Tom Malone
American musician
26
Christian McBride
Christian McBride
American musician
27
Juan Alderete
Juan Alderete
musician
28
Everette Harp
Everette Harp
American musician
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John Entwistle
John Entwistle
English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer, bassist for The Who
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Joseph Wooten
Joseph Wooten
American musician
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Louis Johnson
Louis Johnson
American bass guitarist, songwriter
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Mark King
Mark King
British musician
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Alison Faith Levy
Alison Faith Levy
American musician
34
Hiromi Uehara
Hiromi Uehara
Japanese-born jazz composer and pianist (1979-)
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Yellowjackets
Yellowjackets
American jazz fusion band
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Ian McDougall
Ian McDougall
musician
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Janek Gwizdala
Janek Gwizdala
American musician
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Lonnie Liston Smith
Lonnie Liston Smith
American pianist
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Leon Lee Dorsey
Leon Lee Dorsey
American musician
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Charnett Moffett
Charnett Moffett
American musician
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Breathe
Breathe
English pop rock group
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War
War
American funk band
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SMV was a bass guitar supergroup formed in 2008. The group's name comes from the first initials of each of its members, Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, and Victor Wooten.

The collaboration gained momentum when the three first played together at a concert held by Bass Player magazine in New York City in 2006, where Miller and Wooten joined on stage to present Clarke with the magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award.

SMV's debut album, Thunder, was released on August 12, 2008, with a supporting world tour beginning the same month.

Stanley Clarke and Victor Wooten (left) and Marcus Miller (right) in 2009 at the Stockholm Jazz Festival.