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Berks Jazz Fest releases complete schedule Allentown Morning Call, PA - Nov 30, 2008 Bela Fleck: The Africa Project: Fleck, the genre-blending banjo player, made a trip to West Africa in 2005 to explore the roots of his instrument. ...

Bela Fleck: Christmas Time is Here, At Last! Relix, NY - Nov 26, 2008 Bela Fleck has been plucking his banjo since the age of 15 and with the Flecktones, his band of nearly 20 years, he has been consistently pushing the ...

Fleck brings the ineffable to the Pops Honolulu Star-Bulletin, HI - Nov 24, 2008 That's why it's such a pleasure to team up with the musicians who will join us this weekend -- the indefinable and unique Bela Fleck & the Flecktones. ...

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Jingle All the Way

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones have come together with a wonderful Christmas CD in the form of Jingle all the Way.
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones are making some of the most innovative and refreshing music these days, and it really shows in this Christmas CD.

Bela plays the banjo, Victor Wooten on bass guitar, Future Man on percussion, and Jeff Coffin on sax and woodwinds and strange vocals. The last one does make some really strange vocal noises that I've heard in recent years; he doesn't sing, he nasally and throatfully performs, and strangely appropriate at times(Jingle Bells and Jingle Bells are examples).

Tracks:
    1. Jingle Bells
    2. Silent Night
    3. Sleigh Ride
    4. The Christmas Song
    5. Twelve Days of Christmas
    6. J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio - BVW 248 # 41
    7. Christmas Time Is Here
    8. Linus and Lucy
    9. Jingle Bells (reprise)
    10. The Hanukkah Waltz
    11. Danse of the Sugar Plum Fairies
    12. What Child Is This/Dyngyldai
    13. O Come All Ye Faithful
    14. Medley
    15. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
    16. River

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Live at the Quick

Béla Fleck & the Flecktones
If you're lucky enough to have stumbled on to Bela Fleck like I did six years ago buy this.

Heartland: An Appalachian Anthology

Great violin, appalachian music, brings out your country roots, beautiful song by Allison Krauss, good mix of slow and up beat songs, excellent cd!

Tracks:
    1. Short Trip Home
    2. Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier
    3. 1B
    4. Appalachia Waltz
    5. Soldier's Joy
    6. Sliding Down
    7. BT
    8. Butterfly's Day Out
    9. College Hornpipe
    10. Fancy Stops and Goes
    11. Old Tyme
    12. Emily's Reel
    13. Slumber My Darling
    14. Death by Triple Fiddle
    15. Amazing Grace
    16. Song of the Liberty Bell (folk version)

Perpetual Motion

Fleck's 2001 disc `Perpetual Motion' is by far his most ambitious foray into virtuosity, performing classical works by Bach, Scarlatti and Chopin.

And he does it without really showing off. He only tackles mazurkas, fugues and Bach classical inventions on the five-string banjo, a simple instrument for which this music was never conceived.

I once flirted with playing the banjo, and it wasn't an easy task, even trying to play 'Uncle Pen'.

But the man must be possessed to play it like Bela does.

Tracks:
    1. Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata in C Major K. 159
    2. Bach: Two-Part Invention No. 13
    3. Debussy: "Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum" from Children's Corner
    4. Chopin: Mazurka in F-sharp Minor
    5. Bach: "Prelude" from Partita No. 3 for Solo Violin
    6. Chopin: Etude in C-sharp Minor
    7. Chopin: Mazurka in F-sharp Minor
    8. Bach: Three-Part Invention No. 10
    9. Tchaikovsky: Melody in E-flat
    10. Brahms: "Presto in G-Minor I after Bach"
    11. Bach: "Prelude" from Suite for Unaccompanied Cello 1
    12. Bach: Three-Part Invention No. 15
    13. Paganini: Moto Perpetuo
    14. Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata in D Minor K. 213
    15. Bach: Two-Part Invention No. 6
    16. Beethoven: "Adagio sostenuto" from "Moonlight" Sonata
    17. Bach: Two-Part Invention No. 11
    18. Beethoven: Seven Variations on "God Save The King"
    19. Bach: Three-Part Invention No. 7
    20. Paganini: Moto Perpetuo (Bluegrass version)

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