Béla Fleck & the Flecktones - Live at the Quick
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Free Music Review: Super! Get the DVD too!
Hit: 5 Stars
You won't be disappointed. Who else but Fleck takes so many musical influences and mixes them together to provide us with such a delicious menu of good taste. Gourmet music for the heart.The Tuvan throat singing is amazing, Indian tabalas, a funky oboe solo, one guy plays two saxes at once, Future-man's drum-i-tar and the African influences PLUS bluegrass and rock and the most amazing concert footage [on the DVD] sounds SO good with my home theater system in surround sound. You won't believe their rendition of Aaron Copland's 'Hoedown.'
Free Music Review: response to 'a music fan' in regards to Live At the Quick
Hit: 5 Stars
OK, 'a music fan', what would you suggest would make this album better? This is the first time in over 20 years I've ever publicly ranted about music, but I'm compelled to do so now. I see that you have some good taste in music, so what is it about this album that you find unpleasing? The musicians on this album are some of the best on their instruments in the world, if not the best, and boy, if you could do better, let's hear it. You're welcome to reply, but let's remember to keep it polite.Free Music Review: Amazing Talented Musicians Here People
Hit: 5 Stars
You absolutely must get this CD. It is incredible, the musicians are so talented and the music flows greatly with a very weird sound that is cool if you are into Bela, check it out fans, 5 STARS!Free Music Review: If you want a complete live overview of the Flecktones...
Hit: 4 Stars
...pick up the double-disc set "Live Art" as well. This album seems to zero in on material from their more recent releases, hardly ever reaching back to material from their earlier albums. Of course, to the owner of the earlier Fleck live set, this means you don't get duplicates of classics like "The Sinister Minister". I hate it when a band does that--of King Crimson's many live efforts, only two lack the song "21st Century Schizoid Man". Only the fourth Rush live set is missing "Closer to the Heart". Another thing you get is a lot more improvisational material here like you never get on their studio releases, including bits from Fleck's classical effort "Perpetual Motion". It makes for an interesting listen when a banjo man does Bach. Also carried on from "Live Art" is Fleck's use of guitar timbres on his electric banjo--you can't tell by the sound that it isn't a six-string. To lump the Flecktones into "smooth jazz" is a mistake. This is not to say they adhere to the strictures of "true jazz"--it's just that they jam like beboppers as smooth jazz people never do, they can do classical, they can cover pop material easily, they include the grievously underrated Vic Wooten on bass, plus they have contemporary music's only drummer who doesn't look like one--Roy "Future Man" Wooten plays a guitar synthesiser set to its drum kit programs. So if you can't call them "real jazz", you can't call them "phony jazz" either. You can't even call them...er..."adult contemporary". Bela Fleck and the Flecktones are a genre into themselves.Free Music Review: Better than the studio "outbound", which has same songs
Hit: 4 Stars
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones have a "big band" concert which rehashes many of the songs on the "Outbound" studio CD. The live disc, I feel, works better because it has more spirit. Even though there are a lot of guests with different styles, it all works together fine because the guests, frankly, aren't prominent in the mix. You have to listen closely. One notable exception is Ondar's exceptional Tuvan throat singing on "Alash Khem", which he does solo. If you're deciding between "Outbound" and this one, pick this one. If you already have "Outbound", your decision will hang on just how much you like the Flecktones!