Bela Fleck And The Flecktones
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Bela Fleck And The Flecktones Biography
Premier banjo player Bela Fleck is considered one of the most
innovative pickers in the world and has done much to demonstrate the
versatility of his instrument, which he uses to play everything from
traditional bluegrass to progressive jazz. He was named after composer
Béla Bartok and was born in New York City. Around age 15, Fleck became
fascinated with the banjo after hearing Flatt & Scruggs' Ballad of
Jed Clampett and Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell's Dueling Banjos,
and his grandfather soon gave him one. While attending the High School
of Music and Art in New York, Fleck worked on adapting bebop music for
the banjo.
Fleck always had diverse musical interests, and his own style was
influenced by Tony Trischka, Earl Scruggs, Chick Corea, Charlie Parker,
John Coltrane, the Allman Brothers, Aretha Franklin, the Byrds, and
Little Feat. After graduation, he joined the Tasty Licks, a group from
Boston. They recorded two albums and dissolved in 1979. Afterwards,
Fleck joined the Kentucky band Spectrum. That year, only five years
after he took up the instrument, he made his solo recording debut with
Crossing the Tracks, which the Readers' Poll in Frets magazine named
Best Overall Album. In 1982, he joined New Grass Revival and stayed
with them until the end of the decade. During this time, his reputation
continued to grow and in 1990, Frets magazine added his name to their
Hall of Greats. In 1988, one of his compositions, Drive (from the
album New Grass Revival), was nominated for a Grammy.
Fleck, mandolin player Sam Bush, fiddler Mark O'Connor, bassist Edgar
Meyer, and Dobro player Jerry Douglas teamed up in 1989 to form
Strength in Numbers and record The Telluride Sessions. Late that year,
Fleck was asked by PBS television to play on the upcoming Lonesome Pine
Special; in response he gathered together a veritable dream team of
musicians to form the Flecktones. The original members included Howard
Levy, who played piano, harmonica, and ocarina, among other
instruments; bass guitarist Victor Lemonte Wooten, and his brother Roy
Future Man Wooten on the drumitar, an electronic drum shaped like a
guitar. Though the special wasn't aired until 1992, the Flecktones
recorded their eponymous debut album in 1990 and followed it up with
Flight of the Cosmic Hippo (1991).
In 1993, they released their third album, UFO Tofu, which featured
music blending different genres ranging from bluegrass to R&B to
worldbeat. In 1995, they released Tales from the Acoustic Planet; Left
of Cool followed in 1998, and Tales from the Acoustic Planet 2: The
Bluegrass Sessions was released a year later. Outbound followed in
mid-2000. Busy and prolific, Fleck released an album of classical
pieces, Perpetual Motion, in late 2001, followed by Live at the Quick
in 2002, the ambitious double-disc Little Worlds (and its truncated
single-disc version, Ten from Little Worlds) in 2003, and Music for Two
(with bassist Edgar Meyer) in 2004. Hidden Land, another album with the
Flecktones, appeared on Columbia Records in 2006. ~ Sandra Brennan, All
Music Guide
Written by Sandra Brennan