B?la Fleck & The Flecktones - Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
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Free Music Notes for Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
Free Music Review: Different But Great
Hit: 5 Stars
Bela Fleck isn't really pigioned holed into one particular catagory. Kind of a Blue Grass/Country Rock band. Fine musicians and good arrangements. A great change of pace.Free Music Review: How It Started
Hit: 4 Stars
Who else would have seen any common ground between bluegrass and jazz? That being said, among those few, who else would have seen a connection between bluegrass and not just jazz but electric, fusion-style jazz?
The sheer brilliance of this originality comes through on this debut CD - collectable just for its new-ness. The music is strong enough, but when you reflect on how completely innovative it was in its time, you sit back in awe.
And that said, this first album is not Fleck's best. The best, by far, is "Flight of the Cosmic Hippo." However, no collection is complete without the first chapter...
Free Music Review: The Northern Exposure Halloween Song!
Hit: 5 Stars
Northern Exposure, Season 3, Episode 5, "Jules et Joel". Throughout this episode a great song plays that I couldn't get out of my head. I did a search and found the name of the song, Flight of the Cosmic Hippo, on moosechick's site. I got the CD for that one song and now love every track.Free Music Review: Just a Great CD
Hit: 5 Stars
Very different type of music, goes from songs like Half Moon Baby which is a gorgeous smooth song, with a good harmonica solo, to songs like Flipper which is just a funky type of song, really good album definately buy it.Free Music Review: Where it all began...
Hit: 5 Stars
If you have been through the Flecktone collection of CDs and don't have this one, this will show you where much of their ideas began. There has a unique "airiness" to it that the following recordings do not quite possess. The beauty of this is the ablilty it gives you to separate the instruments out in your mind while listening, and really begin to understand the God-given talent of each musician and how they put it all together as a group. From simply beautiful ballads to experiments with different musical time signatures.
This CD is before they got "big", still working in night clubs and playing in schools...traveling around from venue to venue in a old bus. There is a wonderful VHS tape to this (possibly on DVD now) that not only shows you how some of these songs are put together, but brings you through how the group came to play with one another. After watching the video, I was not only completely immersed in their music forever, but was intrigued by this wholesome band. They didn't need fireworks, fancy lights, wardrobe malfunctions, etc...the music and musicianship spoke for themselves, leaving people (all ages alike) in almost a trance-like state, awed by this oddly-fitting quartet.
This is a great first CD for the Flecktones and is followed by other wonderful CDs as well.