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Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Outbound


Album : Outbound
Artist : Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Release date : 2000
Label : Columbia
Number of discs : 1
Genre : Bluegrass
Total size : 82,5 MB
Total time : 00:59:48

Tracks :
1. Intro
2. Hoedown
3. Moment So Close, A
4. Zona Mona
5. Hall of Mirrors
6. Earth Jam
7. Something She Said
8. Ovombo Summit
9. Aimum
10. Prelude
11. Lover's Leap
12. Outbound
13. Scratch & Sniff
14. Shuba Yatra
15. That Old Thing
16. Reprise

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OUTBOUND won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album. "Zona Mona" was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.

With OUTBOUND, Bela Fleck and his Flecktones blend their eclectic mix of high-energy bluegrass and jazz with instrumentalists and vocalists from a wide range of styles. Among these are B3 master John Medeski, eclectic guitarist Adrian Belew, and pop vocalists Shawn Colvin and Yes' Jon Anderson. As you may expect, this makes for some of the most unique aural adventures to come down the pike in a long while.

With a nod to Oliver Nelson's BLUES & THE ABSTRACT TRUTH arrangement, Fleck offers a contemporary take on Aaron Copland's "Hoedown." He then launches into the intriguing "A Moment So Close," which mixes urban funk, Middle Eastern flavors, and contemporary pop vocals. If that's not enough to strip your gears, Adrian Belew's space-age guitar textures and Shawn Colvin's wordless vocal introduction into the otherwise rolling groove of "Hall of Mirrors" are likely to make you sit up and take immediate notice. More evidence of Fleck's stylistic wizardry is the exciting "Ainum," a piece that, while at first appearing as merely a pop vocal, incorporates everything from bluegrass and jazz to Indian drumming and funk. Other mesmerizing musical escapades include the lilting "Lover's Leap," the fusion-esque title track, and the impenetrable "Scratch & Sniff."

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Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Live at the Fillmore Auditorium 11-28-2003


Album : Live at the Fillmore Auditorium 11-28-2003
Artist : Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Number of discs : 3
Genre : Bluegrass
Total size : 60,6 MB
Total time : 00 :43 :58


Tracks :
Disc 1: (Set 1)
1. Next 6:52
2. Mudslingers of the Milky Way 8:43
3. Puffy 11:05
4. Band Intros 2:45
5. New Math 9:04
6. Snatchin' 8:31
7. Futureman Solo -> Futch/Béla Jam 12:31
Disc 2: (End of Set 1 & Start of Set 2)
1. Scratch & Sniff ^ 14:31
------ Set Break ------
2. Victor Solo -> 17:42
3. Vic/Jeff Jam (Mad Hatter)->Sleeper 18:08
4. Something She Said ^ -> 4:18
5. A Moment So Close ^ 8:03
Disc 3: (End of Set 2 & Encore)
1. Poindexter 6:05
2. Sherpa 19:51
3. Béla & David * 14:02
4. Am Latin ^* 9:48
------ Encore Break -----
5. Sleeping Dogs Lie ^* 7:29

Notes:
^ With guest Paul Hanson on bassoon
* With guest David Grisman on mandolin

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Béla Fleck
Tales From the Accoustic Planet


Album : Tales From the Accoustic Planet
Artist : Béla Fleck
Release date : 1995
Label : Warner
Number of discs : 1
Genre : Jazz
Total size : 78,3 MB
Total time : 00:59:13

Tracks :
1. Up and Running
2. First Light
3. Great Circle Route, The
4. Circus of Regrets
5. Three Bridges Home
6. Landing, The
7. Arkansas Traveler
8. Backwoods Galaxy
9. In Your Eyes
10. System Seven
11. Cheeseballs in Cowtown
12. Bicyclops
13. Jayme Lynn
14. For Sascha

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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 ...

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Béla Fleck– The Bluegrass Sessions
Tales From the Accoustic Planet Vol. 2


Album : The Bluegrass Sessions
_Tales From the Accoustic Planet Vol. 2
Artist : Béla Fleck
Release date : 1999
Label : Warner Bros.
Number of discs : 1
Genre : Bluegrass
Total size : 173 MB
Total time : 01:15:35

Tracks :
1. Blue Mountain Hop
2. Buffalo Nickel
3. When Joy Kills Sorrow
4. Spanish Point
5. Polka on the Banjo
6. Clarinet Polka
7. Over Grown Waltz, The
8. Ode to Earl
9. Home Sweet Home
10. Valley of the Rogue
11. Plunky's Lament
12. Maura On A Bicycle / Stout And Molasses / Way Back When
13. Dark Circles
14. Old Jellico / Puddle Jumper / Dead Man's Hill
15. Katmandu
16. Do You Have Room?
17. Foggy Mountain Special
18. Major Honker

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Banjo master Bela Fleck takes a time-out of sorts from the dizzying NewGrass/Jazz-Country-Funk fusion for which he has become famous and returns to his bluegrass roots. THE BLUEGRASS SESSIONS: TALES FROM THE ACOUSTIC PLANET, VOLUME 2 runs the gamut from the humorous, old-time "Polka on the Banjo" (lead vocal by John Hartford) to the straight-ahead bluegrass of "Ode to Earl" (Scruggs, that is, the legendary banjoist). In the mysterious and beautiful "Katmandu," the music of the hills of Kentucky meets that of the hills of Asia. "Spanish Point" is the most Flecktones-sounding tune. This album, which contains fine contributions from Tony Rice, Vassar Clements, and Jerry Douglas, should appeal to the more adventurous bluegrass fan.

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Béla Fleck – Drive


Album : Drive
Artist : Béla Fleck
Release date : 1988
Label : Rounder
Number of discs : 1
Genre : Bluegrass
Total size : 119 MB
Total time : 00:52:04

Tracks :
1. Whitewater
2. Slipstream
3. Up and Around the Bend
4. Natchez Trace
5. See Rock City
6. Legend, The
7. Lights of Home, The
8. Down in the Swamp
9. Sanctuary
10. Open Road, The
11. Crucial County Breakdown - (bonus track)
12. Shuckin' the Corn - (previously unreleased, bonus track)

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Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Perpetual Motion


Album : Perpetual Motion
Artist : Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Release date : 2001
Number of discs : 1
Genre : Bluegrass
Total size : 79,7 MB
Total time : 00:57:33

Tracks :
1. Keyboard Sonata in C Major K. 159 - Béla Fleck, Béla Fleck, Chris Thile
2. Two-Part Invention No. 13
3. Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum
4. Mazurka in F-Sharp Minor
5. Partita No. 3 for Solo Violin (Prelude)
6. Etude in C-Sharp Minor
7. Mazurka in F-Sharp Minor
8. Three-Part Invention No. 10
9. Melody in E-Flat - Béla Fleck, Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer
10. "Presto in G Minor 1 After Bach"
11. Suite for Unaccompanied Cello No. 1 (Prelude)
12. Three-Part Invention No. 15
13. Moto Perpetuo - Béla Fleck, Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer
14. Keyboard Sonata in D Minor K. 213
15. Two-Part Invention No. 6
16. "Adagio Sostenuto"
17. Two Part Invention No. 11 - Béla Fleck, Béla Fleck, Evelyn Glennie
18. Seven Variations on "God Save the King" - Béla Fleck, Béla Fleck,
19. Three-Part Invention No. 7
20. Moto Perpetuo (Bluegrass) - Béla Fleck, Béla Fleck, Bryan Sutton

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Amazon.com
Bela Fleck is one of the greatest five-string banjo players performing today. Beginning in the 1970s, he honed his lightning-fast chops performing bluegrass, then moved on to contemporary jazz and fusion sounds. With this album, he broadens his horizons once again by performing an entire program of classical music transcriptions. Reminiscent of classical guitar albums by John Williams (who makes a guest appearance here), the disc traverses a wide range of repertoire--from Chopin mazurkas to Bach's Two and Three Part Inventions. Throughout, Fleck displays a feathery touch on his banjo, and his instrument offers a pleasant, brassy tone with very little twang. The technique he displays on Perpetual Motion is astounding and a refreshing change of pace from the smooth grooves found on the banjoist's Flecktones recordings. The arrangements are generally minimalist and understated, but violinist Joshua Bell, bassist Edgar Meyer, mandolinist Chris Thile, and percussionist Evelyn Glennie join in on this groundbreaking disc. Bluegrass purists may be disappointed (this is a far cry from the free-spirited, folksy abandon found on Sony's Short Trip Home and Appalachian Journey CDs), but classical fans will be astounded by how perfectly natural Fleck's banjo sounds on these works.
--Jason Verlinde

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Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Little Worlds


Album : Little Worlds
Artist : Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Release date : 2003
Label : Columbia
Number of discs : 3
Genre : Bluegrass
Total size : 119 MB + 105 MB + 117 MB
Total time : 00:52:10 + 00:45:57 + 00:51:25

Tracks :
Little Worlds CD DISC 1:
1. Bill Mon
2. Ballad of Jed Clampett, The - (with Bobby McFerrin/Sam Bush)
3. Puffy
4. New Math
5. Longitude
6. Latitude
7. Centrifuge - (with Derek Trucks)
8. Off the Top: A Gravity Wheel - (with Nickel Creek)
9. Off the Top B: Line Dance - (with Nickel Creek)
10. Untitled - (hidden track)
Little Worlds Songs DISC 2:
1. Fjords of Oslo, The
2. Sherpa
3. What It Is
4. Leaning Tower, The - (with Bobby McFerrin/The Chieftains)
5. Mudslingers of the Milky Way
6. Captive Delusions - (with Branford Marsalis)
7. Costa Brava
8. Poindexter - (with Jerry Douglas)
9. Prequel
10. Return of the Mudslingers - (with Branford Marsalis)
Little Worlds Album DISC 3:
1. Cave, The
2. Next
3. Pineapple Heart - (with Derek Trucks/Sam Bush)
4. Snatchin'
5. Reminiscence
6. Sleeper - (with Bobby McFerrin)
7. Flunky
8. Last Jam, The - (with Derek Trucks/Jerry Douglas/Bernie Williams)
9. Untitled - (hidden track)

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JazzTimes (11/03, p.110) - "What a glorious musical excursion this is!...LITTLE WORLDS is filled from start to finish with inventive compositions and top-level musicians from around the world..."


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Part4:

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Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet


Album : Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet
Artists : Sparrow Quartet
Release date : 2008
Label : Nettwerk Records
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 77,4 MB
Total time : 00:53:24

Tracks :
1. Overture 2:35
2. A Fuller Wine 5:00
3. Strange Things 4:55
4. Great Big Wall In China 6:08
5. Taiyang Chulai 2:37
6. Oh Me, Oh My 3:30
7. Captain 5:55
8. A Kazakh Melody 1:47
9. Banjo Pickin' Girl 3:00
10. Sugar & Pie 4:56
11. Kangding Qingge/Old Timey Dance Party 4:43
12. It Ain't Easy 3:41
13. Journey Home 4:13

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Washburn has created a new sound that crosses global and cultural lines, personified in the raw, transcendental music of the Sparrow Quartet. The all star collaboration features banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck, acclaimed cellist Ben Sollee and Grammy nominated fiddler Casey Driessen. The artistry of Abigail is her love of both American roots musics and the Chinese culture she has been exploring for over a decade. Produced by Bela Fleck, the music was composed and arranged by the foursome. The unprecedented mixture of two banjos (clawhammer and three finger style), cello and fiddle unfolds like an otherworldly chamber suite.

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Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
The Hidden Land


Album : The Hidden Land
Artist : Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Release date : 2006
Label : Columbia
Number of discs : 1
Genre : Bluegrass
Total size : 68,6 MB
Total time : 00:59:53

Tracks :
1. Fugue From Prelude & Fuge No. 20 in A Minor, BWV 889
2. P'Lod in the House
3. Rococo
4. Labyrinth
5. Kaleiloscope
6. Who's Got Three
7. Weed Whacker
8. Couch Potato
9. Chennai
10. Subterfuge
11. Interlude
12. Misunderstood
13. The Whistle Tune

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Bela Fleck's progressive fusion of jazz, bluegrass, classical, rock, and anything else he can get his hands on has been surprising listeners for some time now. 2006's THE HIDDEN LAND offers more of the same, though "sameness" for Fleck is liberated from its usual meaning. For example, the elaborate riff on Bach's "Fugue from Prelude & Fugue No. 20" that opens the disc is a stylistic whiplash that manages to incorporate bop, swing, funk, and psychedelia while still honoring the spirit of the original.

Fleck's genre-smashing banjo playing is enough to win the heart of any adventurous listener, but his Flecktones--who include bassist Victor Wooten, multi-instrumentalist Jeff Coffin, and drummer Future Man--are as flexible and risk-hungry on their instruments as the leader is on his. Whether on breezy, tuneful jams like "Roccoco" or frenetic free bop like "Couch Potato" (which comes complete with countrified interludes), Fleck and the Flecktones keep fans guessing, but in the most delightful way.

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Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Jingle All The Way


Album : Jingle All The Way
Artist : Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Release date : 2008
Label : Rounder
Number of discs : 1
Genre : Bluegrass
Total size : 81,4 MB
Total time : 01:01:30

Tracks :
1. Jingle Bells
2. Silent Night
3. Sleigh Ride
4. Christmas Song, The
5. Twelve Days of Christmas, The
6. J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio - Bvw 248: #41 "Ich Will Nur Zu Ehren Leben"
7. Christmas Time is Here
8. Linus and Lucy
9. Jingle Bells [Reprise]
10. Hanukkah Waltz, The
11. Danse of the Sugar Plum Fairies
12. What Child is This/Dyngyldai
13. O Come All Ye Faithful
14. Medley
15. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
16. River

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Description
Béla Fleck, often considered the premiere banjo player in the world, has made a name for himself as a virtuoso instrumentalist unbounded by genre. His band The Flecktones - Victor Wooten on electric bass, Jeff Coffin on sax and flute, and Future Man on percussion - are equally talented and adventurous as Fleck himself, and together they have made a string of critically acclaimed albums that combine bluegrass, jazz, funk and world music with technical prowess, unlimited imagination and occasional zaniness. Their new holiday CD Jingle All the Way is all of that, with bells on - Christmas music as it's never been heard it before, with unique tonal textures (banjo, Tuvan throat singing, klezmer mandolin), hot solos and tight ensemble arrangements that make every measure new. Jingle All the Way is the perfect stocking stuffer for those who like their Christmas music fun and challenging at the same time.

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