Béla Fleck & the Flecktones - Live at the Quick
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Artist: Béla Fleck & the FlecktonesEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2002-02-26
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Earth Jam
- That Old Thing (Intro)
- That Old Thing (Intro)/Earth Jam
- Zona Mona
- Ovombo Summit
- Hall Of Mirrors
- Scratch & Sniff
- Amazing Grace
- Improv
- Improv/Amazing Grace
- Big Country
- Interlude
- Lover's Leap
- Alash Khem (Alash River Song)
- A Moment So Close
- Improv
- Improv/Prelude from Bach violin partita #3
- Prelude from Partita No. 3 for Solo Violin (BWV 1006)
- Intro
- Hoedown
Free Music Notes for Live at the Quick
Free Music Review: Take that, Dave Matthews Band!
Hit: 5 Stars
True, I don't really care for live albums, but this album (produced by Fleck himself) doesn't sound like it was recorded in a cave (you know the usual sound, just check out Live). It's still crystal clear, well balanced, and smooth. That's a great thing, but you still get the live atmosphere on top of that. Granted, you can't expect music like this to have the wildness of a rock concert, so they won't pump you up. Eh, just listen, it's not that important compared to the actual playing.
Okay, for those of you not familair of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, it consists of Bela Fleck (Banjos. He even has a sythnesizer banjo, as he calls it), Jeff Coffin (reeds), Futureman (Synth-axe drumitar. Just check out the thing!), and Victor Wooten (bass). What you heard is true, these guys can do very difficult things on their instruments. They are mega skilled, and Victor Wooten, just watch some clips of this guy. If you think he has zero talent, you are musically retarded. Listen to him talk about music as well. Enough of their skills, the music is what's important.
All the songs on here are blends of all kinds of styles. I like the way that Big Country is a eight minute soundtrack for my imagination to fly over forests, deserts, oceans, and fields of America. There's even some vocals on here, Alash Khem and A Moment So Close feature throat singing, with Futureman singing lyrics! Earth Jam has Victor Wooten doing...something, and the intro before Hoedown does too, though I have no idea what it is. They all sound great, and these voices aren't touched up, sang without any voice enchancers. Joining them are a lot of musicians, so you got more than just Bela Fleck? Still not convinced? See below!
If your wondering whether to get this or it's studio counterpart (Outbound), I say get this. I don't know, it's just more exciting, but to be fair, I haven't heard that album. You don't need to worry about owning both, because the sound quality in this one isn't a drawback compared to a studio album. Oh the cd is on DVD as well: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Live at the Quick. But it is (See comment box!) Fun stuff indeed, great energy and vibe. Some of these songs take me back to big country fields, and some let me fly through space, and other stuff. Reccomended!
9/10
Live at the Quick Poster
Béla Fleck's music is a three-ring circus of stylistic outreach, rooted in folk musics from around the globe, yet tethered to an American improviser's sensibility. Here, the composer and banjo virtuoso is captured in full flight at a concert venue with his core band of collaborators, the Flecktones, featuring multi-reedman Jeff Coffin and the charismatic Wooten Brothers, bassist Victor and percussionist Roy (better known as Futureman). The emotional and technical range the Flecktones routinely explore is showcased in a series of adventurous solo spots: Futureman's sampled percussion and evocations of African vocal traditions on "Ovombo Summit"; Victor's rapid-fire percussive techniques and masterful use of harmonics in a moving improv based on "Amazing Grace"; and Béla's crystalline adaptation of the prelude from Bach's Violin Partita No. 3. Better yet, Fleck augments his presentation with a Justice League of America-styled cabal of master musicians, who, like himself, push the envelope on instruments all too infrequently represented in jazz. Thus, we experience Andy Narell's lithe, sparkling steel drum harmonies on the Americana-inflected pathways of Béla's "Big Country" and on his gorgeous solo turn, "Interlude"; Paul McCandless's airborne, lyric oboe on the reggae changes of "Lover's Leap"; the funky facility of Paul Hanson on "Scratch and Sniff" (as he transforms his bassoon with wah-wah effects until it suggests a synthesizer); and the uncanny emotional impact of Tuvan throat singer Kongar-ol Ondar, who trumps any synth player you've ever heard through his use of multiphonics in the Mongolian vocal tradition. --Chip SternCountry Music CDs
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