I saw them doing one tune together on TV, Andrew. The new CD is just
duo work, & should be good. Fleck is amazing, but he's certainly no
longer alone in adventurous banjo playing, see Alison Brown, eg,
etc....
Doug
On 14-Jun-07, at 12:42 AM, andrew burke wrote:
> Chikc Corea and Bela Fleck have just played in Michigan. Are they
> playing elsewhere? Anybody heard this interesting collaboration? I
> first heard of Bela Fleck here, on p'etc - and Candice was generous
> enough to mail me a CD of a live performance. Banjo ain't banjo
> anymore! Here's some advertising blurb about the Summet -
>
> 'Twelve-time Grammy award winner Chick Corea's four-decade career is
> the stuff of jazz lore--his groups are hotbeds of imagination, and he
> continues to break new ground. And just in case you're not familiar
> with Ann Arbor favorite Béla Fleck, he's often called the world's
> premier banjo player, a musical explorer who's taken his bluegrass
> instrument into progressive musical terrain it had never visited
> before. Best of all, these two great artists are both at their best
> when they're collaborating with (and challenged by) other players at
> their own level. Béla Fleck calls this collaboration with Chick Corea
> "a chance for a lot of musical growth, kind of like being thrown into
> the deep end of the pool and having to learn to swim right away!" We
> call it the progressive music summit of the year in southeastern
> Michigan.'
>
> --
> Andrew
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>
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