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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.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Fleck described his ability to read music as "rather primitive." [4] He overcame this by writing the orchestral parts in banjo tab, then used computer software to "translate" the tab into standard music notation. The concerto depicts a "heroes' journey, with the banjo in the starring role."
Writing for Country Standard Time, Rick Bell commented: "On the jacket of his 1979 solo debut... a 20-year-old Bela Fleck is laughing as if there's an inside joke no one else gets. Fleck... knew the punchline. With the release of this record some 26 years ago, Fleck's immense talent quickly became an inside joke no more." [7]
Natural Bridge is an album by American banjoist Béla Fleck, released in 1982.Bela Fleck was a young bluegrass musician whose work with such bands as Spectrum and the New Grass Revival pushed the envelope of bluegrass tradition and contributed to the development of the New Acoustic movement spearheaded by mandolinist David Grisman, guitarist Tony Rice, and others.
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 ().
Sydney Morning Herald said "With the inclusion of renowned banjo player Bela Fleck, the gifted Hammond organ playing of Joey DeFrancesco and Richard Bona’s bass – the result is a successful interplay, and often joyous push-pull between elements. Displaying his now-legendary skills as an oud player – diving in and out of heroic, Slash-like ...
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The album's most thrilling moments come on the complex and exhilarating "Leaving Cottondale," which is both one of the prettiest and one of the most technically impressive of Brown's compositions. Here she's joined by fellow banjo maverick Bela Fleck for one of the most jaw-dropping passages of twin-banjo counterpoint ever put on tape.