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Bela Fleck & The Flecktones

Bela Fleck & the Flecktones: Blu-Bop

by Geno Thackara
February 11, 2025

This group's recipe does have some blues and bop buried in there somewhere, sure, although they also pack it with several houses' worth of kitchen sinks while twisting your mind and their fingers into pretzels. This one has still aged surprisingly well, even with echo-toned banjo and the frisky beats of a custom guitar-turned-MIDI-percussion device. Well, ...

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Then and now with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones

June 22, 2019

This week, let's take a look at some videos of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, who are coming to St. Louis to perform next Thursday, June 27 at Powell Hall. This year's tour marking the band's 30th anniversary is one of their most extensive since original member Howard Levy rejoined in 2009, covering 21 dates this ...

Boz Scaggs, Jill Scott, And Lake Street Dive Are Final Three Headliners Announced For Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival

February 14, 2018

Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (XRIJF) June 22 to June 30, 2018. Guitarist and singer, Boz Scaggs, will perform on Saturday, June 23. Grammy Award-winning singer songwriter, Jill Scott, will perform on Friday, June 29. Soul pop band, Lake Street Dive, will perform on Thursday, June 28. All shows will take place at Kodak Hall at ...

Doug Collette's Best Releases of 2011

by Doug Collette
January 5, 2012

In no particular order, but all artists display unusually high levels of imagination and creative courage here, rendering each album worth playing for years to come. Brad Mehldau Live in Marciac (Nonesuch) Pat Metheny

Rocket Science

By Bela Fleck & The Flecktones

Label: E1 Music
Released: 2011
Track listing: Tracks: Gravity Lane; Prickly Pear; Joyful Spring; Life in Eleven; Falling Forward; Storm Warning; Like Water; Earthling Parade; The Secret Drawer; Sweet Pomegranates; Falani; Bottle Rocket.

Bela Fleck & The Flecktones: Rocket Science

by John Kelman
May 19, 2011

Béla Fleck & The Flecktones Rocket Science E One Music Group 2011 Some say you can't go back, but that's not always true. Emerging from his formative years as a rising star in the blue/newgrass community, banjoist Béla Fleck lept onto a much bigger radar with the release of Béla ...

Kaleidoscope

Featuring the music of Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
Duration: 6:33
June 1, 2009

Bela Fleck & The Flecktones: The Hidden Land

by Doug Collette
February 13, 2006

The Hidden Land, the first album of new material recorded in the wake of a year off the road, is the logical extension of the Flecktones' recent activities. It makes sense to go back to the basics and start afresh. Also, after the eclectic complexity and artful ambitions that produced the last Bela Fleck/Flecktones album (the ...

Bela Fleck & The Flecktones: Little Worlds

by Jim Santella
October 17, 2003

This three-disc project puts Béla Fleck's music in a new light. His formidable blend of Americana and jazz is integrated with new sounds brought in by guest artists and their eclectic backgrounds. The banjo virtuoso, his multi-faceted woodwind partner, his profound bassist, and his rhythmic sidekick weave modern jazz around the flagpole with delicate airs and ...