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Béla Anton Leoš Fleck (born July 10, 1958) is an American banjo player. An acclaimed virtuoso, he is an innovative and technically proficient pioneer and ambassador of the banjo, playing music from bluegrass, jazz, classical, rock and various world music genres. [ 1 ]
Bela Fleck in Raleigh, North Carolina, June 6, 2011. In April 1997, the Flecktones became a quartet again, as they added saxophone player Jeff Coffin to the mix. In June 1997, the Flecktones opened for the Dave Matthews Band. [4] In July the Flecktones toured Europe and sat in on the second set of a Phish show in Lyon, France. This marked the ...
He is best known as a member of jazz and bluegrass quartet Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, along with banjoist Béla Fleck, harmonicist Howard Levy, and Roy's brother, bassist Victor Wooten. His primary instrument is the SynthAxeDrumitar, a guitar synthesizer he customized to play drum and percussion, but he sometimes plays a standard drum kit ...
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 ...
Bela Fleck: banjo, electric synth banjo; Jeff Coffin: tenor sax, keyboard; Victor Wooten: electric bass, electric standup bass; Roy Wooten: Synth-Axe Drumitar, X-Drum acoustic kick, acoustic drums and cymbals; Pamelia Kurstin: theremin; Branford Marsalis: soprano sax "Off the Top (The Gravity Wheel)" (B. Fleck) Bela Fleck: banjo
Uncommon Ritual is the second album released by Sony Classical of string trios, following Appalachia Waltz, with unusual instrumentation and influences from bluegrass and folk music to create an Americana-style of traditional classical music.
Victor Lemonte Wooten (born September 11, 1964) is an American bassist, songwriter, and record producer. He has been the bassist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones since the group's formation in 1988 and a member of the band SMV with two other bassists, Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller.
While the West-meets-Far East summit between banjo pioneer Bela Fleck, Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain and bassist/classical stylist Edgar Meyer isn’t entirely new, the music on their second ...