Thunder (SMV album)

Thunder
Studio album by SMV
Released	August 12, 2008 (2008-08-12)
Studio	Hannibal Studio (Santa Monica, CA) Threshold Sound + Vision (Santa Monica, CA) House of Blues Studios (Encino, CA) Westlake Recording Studios (Los Angeles, CA) VixMix (Nashville, TN) Topanga Studios (Topanga, CA) Le Gonks West (Los Angeles, CA)
Genre	Jazz-funk
Length	1:02:33
Label	Heads Up
Producer	Marcus Miller Stanley Clarke (co.) Victor Wooten (co.)
Stanley Clarke chronology
The Toys of Men (2007) Thunder (2008) The Stanley Clarke Band (2010)
Marcus Miller chronology
Marcus (2008) Thunder (2008) Renaissance (2012)
Victor Wooten chronology
Palmystery (2008) Thunder (2008) The Music Lesson (2011)

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Guardian	[2]
All About Jazz	[3]

Thunder is the debut studio album by supergroup S.M.V., consisted of bassists Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten. It was released on August 12, 2008 via Heads Up International. Recording sessions took place at Hannibal Studio and Threshold Sound + Vision in Santa Monica, at House of Blues Studios in Encino, at Westlake Studios and Le Gonks West in Los Angeles, at VixMix Studios in Nashville, and at Ryan's Place in Topanga. The entire album was produced by Marcus Miller with co-production by Clarke and Wooten. It features contributions from Antoinette "Butterscotch" Clinton on vocals, George Duke, Ruslan Sirota, Ariel Mann, Chick Corea and Karlton Taylor on keyboards, Ronald Bruner Jr., Poogie Bell, Derico Watson and J. D. Blair on drums, Kevin Ricard on percussion, Michael "Patches" Stewart on trumpet, and Steve Baxter on trombone.

The album peaked at #186 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in the United States.