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Béla Fleck: The Melody of Rhythm

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Label: Koch Records
Released: 2009
Time:
 53:53
Category: Jazz, Classical
Producer(s): Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Steven Epstein
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.flecktones.com
Appears with: Name
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Babar (Z.Hussain) - 6:10
[2] Out of the Blue (B.Fleck/Z.Hussain/E.Meyer) - 4:58
[3] Bubbles (B.Fleck) - 7:12
[4] The Melody of Rhythm: Movement 1 (B.Fleck/Z.Hussain/E.Meyer) - 11:51
[5] The Melody of Rhythm: Movement 2 (B.Fleck/Z.Hussain/E.Meyer) - 6:26
[6] The Melody of Rhythm: Movement 3 (B.Fleck/Z.Hussain/E.Meyer) - 9:39
[7] Cadence (B.Fleck/Z.Hussain/E.Meyer) - 3:56
[8] In Conclusion (B.Fleck/Z.Hussain/E.Meyer) - 6:34
[9] Then Again (E.Meyer) - 6:40

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Béla Fleck - Banjo, Editing, Mixing, Producer
Zakir Hussain - Tabla
Edgar Meyer - Bass, Producer

Detroit Symphony Orchestra - Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin - Conductor

Steven Epstein - Producer
Dave Sinko - Engineer, Mixing
Richard King - Recording
Matthew Pons - Assistant Engineer
Todd Whitelock - Editing
Richard Dodd - Mastering
David Bennett - Management
James Egelhofer - Management
Kevin Kastrup - Management
Paul Grosso - Creative Director
Andrew Kelley - Art Direction, Design
Donald Dietz - Photography
Jim McGuire - Photography

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2009 CD Koch KOC-CD-2024

The Melody of Rhythm is a 2009 album by banjoist Béla Fleck. After returning from Africa and recording "Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3: Africa Sessions", Fleck put together the musical trio, consisting of him, Tabla player Zakir Hussain and bassist Edgar Meyer to record this album. They are accompanied by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin.



The story so far:

Edgar and Bela have been playing together since 1983, when they first jammed in front of the Haagen Dazs store in Aspen, Colorado. As a result of all this playing, they were approached by the Nashville Symphony to compose their double concerto for banjo and bass in 2004. This went nicely, and a couple of years later they were asked to create a triple concerto for the Grand Opening of Nashville Symphony's new home, the Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

Edgar and Bela agreed that their dream collaborator for the triple would be Zakir Hussain. And Zakir agreed to participate. They cowrote the piece together in various locations during the year preceding the concert. On September 9, 2006, they premiered "The Melody of Rhythm; Concerto" with Leonard Slatkin conducting the Nashville Symphony. They enjoyed working together, and decided to record the piece. and create additional trio music to go with it, some of it derived from the original concerto composition.

The Orchestra recording transpired in the first week of January, 2009, with the participation of the Detroit Symphony and Leonard Slatkin conducting. The trio recordings happened during several periods in late 2008 and early 2009. Bela, Zakir and Edgar look forward to performing together with orchestras and as a trio in the days, months and years to come. To be continued ...

CD notes



Béla Fleck wasn't done after his world music extravaganza Throw Down Your Heart, Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3: The Africa Sessions. Those groundbreaking explorations led to the forming of this group and yet another collaboration, The Melody of Rhythm: Triple Concerto & Music for Trio, which teams him with cellist/bassist Edgar Meyer and the mighty Indian percussionist Zakir Hussain. The trio collaborates here with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra directed by maestro Leonard Slatkin. Fleck and Meyer had been playing together on and off for 26 years at the time of this recording, and had previously composed a double concerto for banjo and cello for the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in 2004. They were commissioned by the same orchestra to create a triple concerto in 2006. They decided on Hussain as a collaborator for this set, and performed "The Melody of Rhythm" with the NSO conducted by Slatkin. This is the debut recording of the work and it is augmented by other incidental music either inspired by the original piece or derived directly from it. The DSO, Slatkin's new home, recorded it in 2009. As for the music? What's not to like? Its three movements over 28 minutes are a spacious, wide-ranging, beautifully paced concerto with the trio interacting on its own quite intently and with The DSO not as individual instrumentalists, but as a group in dialogue with the orchestra. Jazz, Indian folk forms, classical music, Appalachian folk, progressive instrumental music, and something utterly new emerge for the listener. "The Melody of Rhythm" is preceded by three compositions. "Babar," which opens the set, is a wandering Eastern European folk song meeting near Asian folk forms. "Out of the Blue" is a work that combines elements of Gypsy swing, Indian classical music, and mountain blues. There are three pieces that follow the concerto as well; most notable among them is the haunting closer, "Then Again," with its high-neck modal explorations by Fleck answered contrapuntally by Meyer and covered in differing textures and tempos by Hussain. This CD is a stellar buy, because it showcases two entirely different faces of this group: one that plays a scripted work in the context of interacting with a much larger ensemble, and as what can only be called a new kind of improvising jazz trio that can work from a set composition and travel far and wide in sound, texture, and color. Bravo.

Thom Jurek - AllMusic.com



"Astoundingly virtuosic on their own instruments, these three masters - of the banjo, the Indian tabla and the upright bass, respectively - make alchemical gold by intertwining repertoires and world traditions."

Los Angeles Times



"It's a breathtakingly beautiful creation...Perfectly titled, The Melody of Rhythm is the textbook definition of creativity."

Relix



In this era of cookie-cutter, synthetic sounds that can be generated by virtually anyone and everyone, it's almost impossible to make music that can be instantly recognized as unique and incomparable. To have that music revealed as both groundbreaking and accessible to all is an even rarer occurrence. Banjo legend Bela Fleck, tabla genius Zakir Hussain and double-bass master Edgar Meyer, internationally-renowned virtuosi and composers, have achieved that pinnacle with their newest music. The centerpiece and catalyst for the album is "The Melody of Rhythm: Concerto," a gorgeously haunting, dynamic three-movement composition for banjo, double bass and tabla. Recorded live with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Leonard Slatkin, the highly rhythmic work soars, melding Indian classical rhythms with American roots-derived melodies and big-sky orchestral horizons. The remaining trio pieces further explore a group dynamic that promises to gain in richness and nuance as they continue their travels throughout the world. Fleck and Meyer have been collaborating for over 25 years, including the Grammy-winning "Perpetual Motion" and the classic "Appalachian Journey" with Yo Yo Ma. Fellow Grammy winner Zakir Hussain is generally acknowledged to be the world's greatest virtuoso of the tabla drums, renowned for his cross-genre work with the likes of John McLaughlin's Shakti, Mickey Hart's Planet Drum, and Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project. For all three of these explorers, an understanding of musical tradition and improvisation has led them to this common crossroads - or as Bela Fleck described it in a recent Downbeat cover story, "getting together with some brothers he hadn't seen in some time." For the rest of us listeners along for the ride, it's a chance to hear - and savor - the new music of several lifetimes.

rskentertainment.co.uk



Die Möglichkeit zu einer gemeinsamen Live-Aufnahmen zu Dritt und mit dem Detroit-Symphony Ochestra konnten sich Fleck, Hussain und Meyer nicht entgehen lassen, vereint es doch wie nie zuvor die drei Meister des Jazz. Zakir Hussain, der bedeutendste Tabla-Musiker der Welt, hat entscheidend bei der Eröffnung neuer musikalischer Horizonte mitgewirkt und voller Kühnheit mit anderen Legenden des Genres wie Yo-Yo Ma, John McLaughlin oder Mikey Hart zusammen gearbeitet; der  Banjo-Star  Béla Fleck, der sich vom Jazz, Funk und Bluegrass über Bach bis zum westafrikanischen Griotgesang an alles wagt, wenn er nicht gerade mit The Flecktones auf Tournee unterwegs ist; Edgar Meyer, den die New Yorker als "einen der herausragendsten Virtuosen des Kontrabass der noch nicht geschriebenen Geschichte" bezeichnet. Mehr als ein Trio ist dies eine Zusammenkunft von musikalischen Genies, die ohne Weiteres mit jeder „Supergruppe" der Jazzgeschichte konkurrieren kann. The melody of the rhythm beweist, dass eine Abgrenzung zwischen den Genres absurd ist.

JPC.de
 

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