Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck
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Biography
[Edit]Premier banjo player Béla Fleck is considered one of the most innovative pickers in the world and has done much to demonstrate the versatility of his instrument, which he uses to play everything from traditional bluegrass to progressive jazz. He was named after composer Béla Bartok and was born in New York City. Around age 15, Fleck became fascinated with the banjo after hearing Flatt & Scruggs' "Ballad of Jed Clampett" and Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell's "Dueling Banjos," and his grandfather soon gave him one. While attending the High School of Music and Art in New York, Fleck worked on adapting bebop music for the banjo.
Fleck always had diverse musical interests, and his own style was influenced by Tony Trischka, Earl Scruggs, Chick Corea, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, the Allman Brothers, Aretha Franklin, the Byrds, and Little Feat. After graduation, he joined the Tasty Licks, a group from Boston. They recorded two albums and dissolved in 1979. Afterwards, Fleck joined the Kentucky band Spectrum. That year, only five years after he took up the instrument, he made his solo recording debut with Crossing the Tracks, which the Readers' Poll in Frets magazine named Best Overall Album. In 1982, he joined New Grass Revival and stayed with them until the end of the decade. During this time, his reputation continued to grow and in 1990, Frets added his name to their Hall of Greats. In 1988, one of his compositions, "Drive" (from the album New Grass Revival), was nominated for a Grammy.
Fleck, mandolin player Sam Bush, fiddler Mark O'Connor, bassist Edgar Meyer, and Dobro player Jerry Douglas teamed up in 1989 to form Strength in Numbers and record The Telluride Sessions. Late that year, Fleck was asked by PBS television to play on the upcoming Lonesome Pine Special; in response, he gathered together a veritable "dream team" of musicians to form the Flecktones. The original members included Howard Levy, who played piano, harmonica, and ocarina, among other instruments; bass guitarist Victor Lemonte Wooten, and his brother Roy "Future Man" Wooten on the drumitar, an electronic drum shaped like a guitar. Though the special wasn't aired until 1992, the Flecktones recorded their eponymous debut album in 1990 and followed it up with Flight of the Cosmic Hippo (1991).
In 1993, they released their third album, UFO Tofu, which featured music blending different genres ranging from bluegrass to R&B to worldbeat. In 1995, they released Tales from the Acoustic Planet; Left of Cool followed in 1998, and Tales from the Acoustic Planet 2: The Bluegrass Sessions was released a year later. Outbound followed in mid-2000. Busy and prolific, Fleck released an album of classical pieces, Perpetual Motion, in late 2001, followed by Live at the Quick in 2002, the ambitious double-disc Little Worlds (and its truncated single-disc version, Ten from Little Worlds) in 2003, and Music for Two (with bassist Edgar Meyer) in 2004. Fleck appeared on Abigail Washburn's first album, Song of the Traveling Daughter, in 2005. Hidden Land, another album with the Flecktones, appeared on Columbia Records in 2006. The band released its first holiday collection in 2008, appropriately titled Jingle All the Way. The Melody of Rhythm: Triple Concerto & Music for Trio appeared in 2009 from Koch Records, which teamed Fleck with cellist/bassist Edgar Meyer and the Indian percussionist Zakir Hussain along with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra directed by Leonard Slatkin.
Fleck was also part of Washburn's Sparrow Quartet (with cellist Ben Sollee and fiddle player Casey Driessen), which, sponsored by the U.S. government, toured China and released Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet in 2008. Also that year, Fleck went to Africa to take part in a documentary film directed by his half-brother Sascha Paladino and collaborated with over 40 of the continent's finest musicians, including D'Gary, Baaba Maal, Vusi Mahlasela, Toumani Diabaté, Bassekou Kouyate, and Oumou Sangare in Tanzania, Gambia, Mali, and Uganda. In 2009, Throw Down Your Heart, Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3: Africa Sessions — both a film and recording — was released to widespread critical acclaim and commercial success. Fleck reunited the original Flecktones for the spring 2011 release Rocket Science, and toured with the band as well as the trio with Hussain and Meyer, which resulted in the concert album The Melody of Rhythm: Triple Concerto & Music for Trio. In 2012, Fleck collaborated with the Marcus Roberts Trio, recording the co-billed Across the Imaginary Divide. Ever ambitious, he composed both an orchestral concerto and a chamber work around his banjo playing, and performed and recorded with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and the string quartet Brooklyn Rider, respectively. The recording appeared as The Imposter in August of 2013.
Fleck's next recording was also a double-billed collaborative effort with his wife, fellow banjo maestro and composer Abigail Washburn. The self-titled recording featured originals, traditional songs, and a thoroughly reimagined medley of two sections of Béla Bartok's For Children combined with his Children's Dance. The album was released by Rounder in October of 2014.
Title: Live At Cartagena
Artist: Jean - Luc Ponty, Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck, Stanley Clarke
Genre: Blues
Title: Danse macabre (with Ben Sollee) - Single
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck
Genre: Jazz, World Music
Title: Solo Banjo Works
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck, Tony Trischka
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Throw Down Your Heart - Africa Sessions Part 2
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck
Genre: World Music
Title: The Ripple Effect
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck, Toumani Diabaté / Toumani Diabate
Genre: Afro Jazz, World Music
Title: Banjo Banjo
Artist: Abigail Washburn, Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck
Genre: World Music, Country, Folk
Title: Banjo Banjo - EP
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck, Abigail Washburn
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: The Impostor
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck, Brooklyn Rider, Giancarlo Guerrero, Nashville Symphony
Genre: Jazz
Title: Echo In the Valley
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck, Abigail Washburn
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Deviation
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck, New Grass Revival
Genre: Jazz, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Tabula Rasa
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck, Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
Genre: Jazz, World Music, Country
Title: Intricacies
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck, Tim O'Brien, Stuart Duncan, Jerry Douglas, Rob Ickes, Mark Schatz, Scott Vestal, Slavek Hanzlik
Genre: Country
Title: Come All You Coal Miners / Take Me To Harlan - Single
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck, Abigail Washburn
Genre: Country
Title: Telluride Bluegrass Festival (Live 1988)
Artist: Sam Bush, Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas
Genre: World Music, Country, Folk
Title: Fiddle Tunes for Banjo
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck, Bill Keith, Tony Trischka
Genre: Country
Title: Béla Fleck And The Flecktones / Bela Fleck And The Flecktones
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Melody of Rhythm
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer
Genre: Jazz, World Music
Title: Music for Two - Single (Live)
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer
Genre: Jazz, Country, Pop, Songwriter/Lyricist, Acoustic
Title: Music For Two (Live)
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer
Genre: Classical, Classical Crossover
Title: As We Speak
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer
Genre: World Music, Classical
Title: Appalachian Journey
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck, Mike Marshall, Mark O'Connor, Edgar Meyer, James Taylor, Alison Krauss
Title: Perpetual Motion
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck, Joshua Bell, Chris Thile, Evelyn Glennie, John Williams, Edgar Meyer, Gary Hoffman, James Bryan Sutton
Genre: Country
Title: Two (Live)
Artist: Chick Corea, Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck
Genre: Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Fusion
Title: Aras
Artist: Béla Fleck / Bela Fleck, Kai Eckhardt, Ty Burhoe, Curandero, Miguel Espinoza
Genre: World Music
Collections
Title: Transatlantic Sessions - Series 5: Volume One
Genre: Country
Title: FestivaLink presents MerleFest Live
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: The Rounder Records Story
Genre: Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: The Best of Bluegrass - 80 Years of American Music
Genre: Country
Title: Classics for a New Century
Genre:
Title: A Tribute to John Hartford
Title: Appalachian Picking Society
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Bluegrass Mountain Style
Genre: Country
Title: The Most Essential Flamenco
Genre: World Music
Title: Bluegrass Class of 1990
Genre: Country
Title: Putumayo Presents: The Best Of World Music, Vol. 2
Genre: Jazz, World Music, Country, Pop
Title: The Rough Guide To Bluegrass
Genre: World Music
Title: The Real Music Box ~ 25 Years Of Rounder Records (CD2)
Genre: Blues, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: 25 Years Of Rounder Records Hand-Picked (CD2)
Genre: Blues, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: The Best Fusion Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Bluegrass Essentials (CD1)
Genre: World Music, Country, Folk
Title: Indo-Jazz Essentials
Genre: Jazz
Title: Modern Bluegrass And Country Bands
Genre: Country
Featuring albums
Title: Heartland: An Appalachian Anthology
Artist: Joshua Bell, Mark O'Connor, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Conner
Genre:
Title: Part of Your History - The Songs of John Hartford
Artist: Jamie Hartford
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: 58957 - The Bluegrass Guitar Collection
Artist: Tony Rice
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Rounder Records: 40th Anniversary Concert
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Alternative Rock, Pop, Alternative
Title: A Tribute to John Hartford
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Country, Alternative Country, Progressive Country , Alternative, Folk
Title: Rounder Banjo
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Gospel, Christian Rock, Country, Christian Country Music, Alternative Country, Classical
Title: Can't You Hear Me Callin' - Bluegrass: 80 Years of American Music
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Country
Title: Epilogue: A Tribute to John Duffey
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Country, Pop, Folk