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Flight of the Cosmic Hippo is the second album by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, released in 1991. [ 4 ] [ 8 ] It reached number 1 on the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart. [ 9 ] The album title came from an audience member who suggested "Flight of the Codeine Hippo"; the band changed "codeine" to "cosmic".
A native of New York City, Fleck was named after the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, the Austrian composer Anton Webern, and the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. [4] He was drawn to the banjo at a young age when he heard Earl Scruggs play the theme song for The Beverly Hillbillies television show [5] and when he heard "Dueling Banjos" by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell on the radio.
The band's debut album, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones (Warner Bros, 1989), received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, as did their second album, Flight of the Cosmic Hippo (Warner Bros., 1991), which also received a nomination for Best Instrumental Composition for the song "Blu-Bop" and contained the Flecktones's version of "The Star-Spangled Banner".
Name Béla Fleck Best known for Bringing the banjo into unwelcome places, kind of like telling an inappropriate joke or farting loudly in a crowd. Really want to be in Would love to be in ...
This is the discography of the Grammy-winning banjoist Béla Fleck which consists of 25 studio albums (15 solo, two with Tasty Licks, three with Spectrum, two with Sparrow Quartet, three with Abigail Washburn), 13 collaboration albums, one live album, three music videos, 22 singles (16 as lead artist and six as featured artist), and 76 other appearances.
All songs by Béla Fleck unless otherwise noted. "The Sinister Minister" – 4:37 "Stomping Grounds" (Victor Wooten, Fleck)– 5:26"Flight Of The Cosmic Hippo" – 4:28 ...
UFO Tofu is the third album by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, released in 1992. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The title is a palindrome , which is also a musical theme in the title track; the idea originated with the musician Baby Gramps .
Live at the Quick is the ninth album released by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones and their second live album. It was recorded live at the Quick Center For The Arts in Fairfield, Connecticut in 2000. Reception