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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.
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 ...
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".
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.
Béla Fleck - 1937 Style 75 Gibson Mastertone banjo (tracks 1, 7, 8, 13), 1936 Style 18 Gibson Top Tension gut string banjo (track 3), 2004 Deering Tenbrooks banjo (track 5), 1932 Vega-Vox Deluxe banjo (track 6), Deering Crossfire electric banjo (tracks 2, 9), 1967 Rickenbacker 5-string electric banjo (track 10, 11), Deering 6-String bantar ...
Little Worlds is the tenth album by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, released in 2003. The album was released as a 3-disc set. The album was released as a 3-disc set. Ten tracks from the set were also released on a single disc called Ten from Little Worlds .
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Sparrow Quartet in Asheville, North Carolina, 2008. The Sparrow Quartet is an American acoustic music group that formed in 2005. Its members include Abigail Washburn (banjo and vocals), Béla Fleck (), Casey Driessen (), and Ben Sollee ().