Jazz Articles about Eric Holle

Eric Holle And Friends: Banjo Rebop

by Mark Sabbatini
June 23, 2004

Maybe this is what Bela Fleck would sound like as an unknown playing coffee houses, jamming with other struggling musicians and trying out various unusual ideas designed to get noticed.

Eric Holle’s “Banjo Rebop” is something akin to a redneck Flecktones album, which in this case is a compliment. A resident of the tiny artist-oriented town of Haines, Alaska, his biggest moment in the limelight to date might be National Public Radio’s selection of a song from this ...