Fleck doc world premieres in Nashville
Directed by Sascha Paladino and Fleck, the film looks at the banjo player's creative process and relationships, including lifelong friend and colleague Edgar Meyer, his hero Earl Scruggs (making one of his last on-camera appearances and to whom the concerto is dedicated), wife Abigail Washburn, mentor Tony Trischka, Chris Thile, Chick Corea and Béla Bartok.
"The fact that I had no qualifications whatsoever as a classical composer didn't seem to bother the symphony, and honestly it bothered me only a little," said Fleck. "I've always enjoyed dreaming up challenging scenarios, and then digging deep and working obsessively to attempt to pull them off."
Fleck and the 90-piece Nashville Symphony Orchestra world premiered "The Impostor" concerto to a sold out audience in September, 2011.
More news for Bela Fleck
- 08/06/15: Fleck, Washburn announce EP
- 11/07/14: Fleck, Washburn, Hot Rize, McCoury lead MerleFest line up
CD reviews for Bela Fleck
Drop the needle on Rounder 0106, Tasty Licks' debut album from 1978, and the first sound heard is Béla Fleck's initial recorded offering, a flurry of 5-string banjo notes immediately appealing and electrifying.
Forty-three years later, and in a year that marked the loss of two founding legends of bluegrass banjo, J.D. Crowe and Sonny Osborne, it seems appropriate that an equally influential innovator should make his return to the music that gave him his start. ...
On the jacket of his 1979 solo debut, banjo in hand, a 20-year-old Bela Fleck is laughing as if there's an inside joke no one else gets. Fleck, along with a smattering of musicians and bluegrass junkies in the Northeast, knew the punchline. With the release of this record some 26 years ago, Fleck's immense talent quickly became an inside joke no more.
Rounder recently reissued the album so a new generation now gets it. Brushed up with Fleck's reflections in the liner notes, the album predates his ...
Originally released in 1982, the year he joined up with New Grass Revival, this was the second album from a young but already experimental Bela Fleck. A New York schooled musician who was as much a student of jazz as of bluegrass, here he incorporates '20's era ragtime, fleet-fingered bluegrass romps and more.
The band included Mark Schatz on bass, Jerry Douglas on dobro, Mark O'Connor on guitar, fiddle, and viola, Darol Anger, Sam Bush, and Ricky Skaggs on fiddles, and Jimmy Gaudreau, David ...
©Country Standard Time • Jeffrey B. Remz, editor & publisher • countrystandardtime@gmail.com
About • Copyright • Newsletter • Our sister publication Standard Time
Country News
CD Reviews
Follow us on
