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The Flecktones owe more to bebop than bluegrass, and here the group finally names their style "blu-bop." That's why Flight of the Cosmic Hippo topped the jazz, not the country, chart. The Flecktones continue to make it look easy, adding banjo power chords to "Turtle Rock" and reworking Lennon/McCartney's "Michelle." ~ Brian Mansfield
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones: Bela Fleck, Roy Wooten, Victor Wooten.Q (1/92, p.72) - 3 Stars - Good "..expertly unites Fleck's virtuoso five-string banjo with the harder, more modern sounds of the rhythm section.."
Musician (7/91) - "..Fleck's jazz pedigree is impeccable..his sparkling arpeggios, popping rolls and daring counterpoint are something else again...beautiful blend of funky folk rhythms.." Flight Of The Cosmic Hippo Music Bela Fleck Flight Of The Cosmic Hippo Songs Flight Of The Cosmic Hippo Review
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Purchase Flight Of The Cosmic Hippo CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Bela Fleck & The Flecktones CD (1990)
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The distance between Bela Fleck's work with New Grass Revival (and even his adventurous late-1980s solo albums) and this eponymous 1990 debut with the Flecktones is difficult to measure. Fleck handpicked this assembly of super-musicians, which includes Victor Wooten on bass, Roy "Future Man" Wooten on the "drumitar" (a combination drum machine/guitar synthesizer), and Howard Levy on harmonica (and keys, Jew's harp, and other assorted noisemakers). Their music obliterates genre distinctions by bridging bluegrass, jazz, classical, rock, funk, and everything ...
| | Bela Fleck UFO Tofu CD (1992)
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All songs written by Bela Fleck except "Sex In A Pan" (Victor Lemonte Wooten) and "Seresta" (Howard Levy/Manfredo Fest).
The Flecktones' third release, UFO TOFU, is a classy forward-thinking fusion outing that doesn't merely challenge listeners with technocratic bluster, but engages them with wit, intelligence, dynamic interplay...and a whole lotta heart. And it's a testament to Fleck's maturing talents as a composer and arranger that UFO TOFU doesn't merely project a hodge-podge of novelties and notions, but a distinctive group identity.
UFO TOFU is the culmination of three-plus years of unrelenting road work, during which time virtuosos Bela Fleck, Howard Levy, Victor Wooten and Roy "Futureman" Wooten had polished their act to a fine sheen, while expanding and refining their synthesis of jazz, country, funk and world music stylings.
But there's nothing self-conscious or contrived about their concord between urban black music and folkish, hillbilly elements, which is what makes the down-home funk of "Magic Fingers" and the dancing Afro-bluegrass of "The Yee-Haw Factor" such a delight. On the latter, they not only employ five-string ...
| | Bela Fleck Three Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest CD (1993)
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All songs written or co-written by members of Bela Fleck & The Flecktones.
Those who have enjoyed earlier Béla Fleck & the Flecktones recordings will not be disappointed with Three Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. The Flecktones have stuck with the formula that made their previous records successful: complex, tight grooves wrapped in a very musical, user-friendly package. ...
| | Bela Fleck Tales From The Acoustic Planet CD (1994)
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Recorded from January to March 1994. Includes liner notes by Bela Fleck.
All songs written by Bela Fleck except "Arkansas Traveler" (P.D.).
"Cheeseballs In Cowtown" was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance.
Having spent the last five years touring and recording with his virtuoso electric ensemble, the Flecktones, banjo innovator Bela Fleck has created a concept album that celebrates his many musical friends and influences, in a homey setting. TALES FROM THE ACOUSTIC PLANET, an elegant, immaculately produced aural novella, is something of a homecoming dance for Bela--and surely the most ambitious, satisfying portrait yet of Fleck as a composer and arranger.
In exploring connections and defying conventions, TALES FROM THE ACOUSTIC PLANET presents an open-ended suite, drawing upon Fleck's roots in bluegrass, jazz, folk, country, pop and world music--eschewing hot licks in favor of tightly structured, bucolic musical settings. Tunes such as "Up And Running," "The Great Circle Route," "The Landing" and "System Seven" seem to mix a ...
| | Neil Young On The Beach CD (1974) Remastered
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After working his way through loss and chaos on the brilliant TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT (recorded in 1973, but not released until 1975), Neil Young deftly exorcised any lingering demons with 1974's ON THE BEACH. The album opens with the saunter of the aptly titled "Walk On," followed by the utterly gorgeous, Wurlitzer-tinged "See the Sky about to Rain."
The set also features a trio of scathing songs--"Revolution Blues," "Vampire Blues," and "Ambulance Blues"--that address issues important to Young, both social and personal. It is good to hear Young back with such bite and vitriol, especially after the broken desperation of TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT. But while ...
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| | Mark Buselli Take The Mitsu CD (2003)
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Take the Mitsu is an almost entirely spontaneously improvised album of jazz mildly in honor of composer Toru Takemitsu, recorded by Indianapolis jazzers Mark Buselli and Claude Sifferlen. The album opens up with the songbook standard "My Ideal," before moving quickly into some more progressive numbers, with the more energetic "Bhutan," and the almost third stream "Syncretism." Buselli gets to stretch out a bit with his flugelhorn phrasing in the bluesy "Blullage," ...
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