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Julian Lage and Jimmy Greene: The Delight in Sharing
by Martin Gladu
For an artist to belong to a tradition implies a certain indebtedness to an historic wealth of knowledge most often found in those somewhat advanced in years. That said, there will always be precocious newcomers who will drop into the scene and shake its contentions anew. Not that long ago, a young tenor saxophonist called Michael ...
Chick & Hiromi: Duet
by Carl L. Hager
Combined with his abilities as a soloist, Chick Corea's uncanny accompanist's instinct for supporting and focusing the spotlight on another player's efforts has produced celebrated duets with everyone from Gary Burton and Herbie Hancock to John McLaughlin and Bela Fleck. With Hiromi Uehara he has done it again. Duet captures the two ...
Bela Fleck's Africa Project Featured in RFT Story
Genre-busting banjo player Bela Fleck will be in St. Louis next Wednesday, April 1 for a performance at the Sheldon Concert Hall with his latest venture, the Africa Project. A couple of weeks ago, I had a chance to talk with Fleck about the tour, which features performers that he first met in 2005 ...
Julian Lage: Stepping Into the Limelight
by R.J. DeLuke
A documentary film made in 1996 centers on an eight year-old guitarist who is already a professional and how he mixes that life with everything else, like family and being a kid. At one point, he's shown playing the guitar behind his neck, a la Jimi Hendrix, adroitly picking a melodic line. At another, he lays ...
Bela Fleck Throw Down Your Heart: Tales from the Acoustic Planet Vol. 3, Africa Sessions
BELA FLECK Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From the Acoustic Planet Vol. 3, Africa Sessions(Rounder) Four years ago the banjoist Bela Fleck went to Africa with an agenda. He had long been intrigued by his instrument’s ancestral history there; he had also been gripped by the transcendent voice of Oumou Sangare, the queen of ...
Grammy Winner 2009: Jazz
= winner Category 45 Best Contemporary Jazz Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) Randy In Brasil Randy Brecker [MAMA Records] Floating Point John McLaughlin [Abstract Logix] Cannon Re-Loaded: All-Star Celebration Of Cannonball ...
South African Ensemble Soweto Gospel Choir and Banjo Master Bela Fleck & the Flecktones Perform Their Own Twist on Holiday Classics at the Kimmel Center This December
Soweto Gospel Choir Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | 8pm Verizon Hall Price: $29-61 “Dressed in a sunburst of colors, they danced, clapped, drummed and even whistled through a fast-paced program, building song after song to heart-stopping pitches of intensity." --Washington Post Rich harmonies, earthy rhythms and ...
The New Yorker's 100 Essential Jazz Albums
While finishing “Bird-Watcher," a Profile of the jazz broadcaster and expert Phil Schaap, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the uninitiated than as a source of quarrelling for the collector. First, I asked Schaap to assemble the list, but, after a ...
The Hidden Land
By Bela Fleck
Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Fugue from Prelude & Fugue No. 20 in A-Minor, BWV; P'lod In The House; Rococo;
Labyrinth; Kaleidoscope; Who
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones: The Hidden Land
by Doug Collette
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 ...
