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Béla Fleck: Béla Fleck & The Flecktones

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Label: Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Released: 1990
Time:
 47:45
Category: Progressive Jazz
Producer(s): Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.flecktones.com
Appears with: Victor Wooten
Purchase date: 2001.07.05
Price in €: 10,99



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[1] Sea Brazil (B.Fleck) - 3:41
[2] Frontiers (B.Fleck) - 6:10
[3] Hurricane Camille (B.Fleck) - 2:34
[4] Half Moon Bay (B.Fleck) - 5:10
[5] The Sinister Minister (B.Fleck) - 4:38
[6] Sunset Road (B.Fleck) - 5:01
[7] Flipper (B.Fleck) - 4:19
[8] Space Is a Lonely Place (B.Fleck) - 4:00
[9] They're Here (B.Fleck) - 4:28
[10] Reflections of Lucy (B.Fleck/J.Lennon/P.McCartney) - 3:38
[11] Tell It to the Gov'nor (B.Fleck) - 4:06

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Béla Fleck & The Flecktones:
BÉLA FLECK - Banjo
HOWARD LEVY - Harmonica, Harp, Jew's-Harp, Keyboards, Guiro
ROY "Futureman" WOOTEN - Synthesizer, Drums, Drumitar
VICTOR LEMONTE WOOTEN - Bass

Additional personnel:
AL JARREAU - Vocals, Background Vocals
SIEDAH GARRETT - Background Vocals
BILL CHAMPLIN - Background Vocals
BILL REICHENBACH - Horn
DAVID FOSTER - Synthesizer, Piano
MICHAEL BAIRD - Percussion, Cymbals, Drums
U.L. BLOWTY - Drums
ROBBIE BUCHANAN - Synthesizer, Piano
NATHAN EAST - Bass
CHUCK FINDLEY - Horn
STEVE GEORGE - Synthesizer
GARY GRANT - Flugelhorn, Horn
JAY GRAYDON - Guitar
JERRY HEY - Flugelhorn, Horn
PAUL JACKSON Jr. - Guitar
CHARLES LOPER - Horn, Background Vocals
TUBS MARGRANATE - Drums
CHIP MCSTICKS - Drums
PAT MOSTELLOTTO - Electric Drums
RICHARD PAGE - Background Vocals
GREG PHILLINGANES - Synthesizer
O. RAPAGE - Drums
CHAMP TIME - Drums
RUG TOUPE - Drums
CARMEN TWILLIE - Background Vocals
SHIUSOH UMOR - Drums
BO TOMLIN - Synthesizer, Programming

DENNY PURCELL - Mastering
BIL VORNDICK - Mixing
LAURA LIPUMA - Art Direction
CARLOS GRIER - Editing
JIM MCGUIRE - Photography
MARK FOX - Artwork, Design

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1990 CD Warner Brothers 2-26124
1990 CS Warner Brothers 4-26124



After disbanding New Grass Revival, Bela Fleck began re-creating the role of the banjo in the same way Charlie Parker redefined the role of the saxophone. But Fleck may be the least-innovative member of this quartet: Howard Levy gets chromatics from his blues harp, Victor Wooten picks banjo rolls on his bass, and Roy "Future Man" Wooten plays a Frankenstein-monster drum-machine/guitar synthesizer. For all the flash, there's little pretense; the group's astonishing musicianship keeps an "aw-shucks" accessibility that lets everybody follow the melody while they marvel.

Brian Mansfield, All-Music Guide, © 1992 - 2001 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



When bluegrass banjo whiz Bela Fleck formed the Flecktones in 1990 with jazz pianist Howard Levy, funk bassist Victor Wooten, and electronic-drummer Roy Wooten, it seemed like just one more of those new-acoustic music bands that appear and disappear in Nashville with depressing regularity. There was something special about this quartet, though, for it used its peculiar instrumentation not as an end in itself but as a means to three albums of startling melodicism, improvisation, and feeling. At the end of 1992, Levy amicably departed to spend more time with his family and his own music. Rather than hire a new fourth member, Fleck and the Wootens have tried to compensate for his absence by an increased reliance on synthesizer sounds that they can trigger from their instruments and floor pedals. This has led to less emphasis on melody, harmony, and feeling and an increased emphasis on rhythm and showy virtuosity.

Geoffrey Himes, Amazon.com essential recording
 

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