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Song Review: Sierra Hull with Jeff Coffin - “Stomping Grounds” (Live, March 23, 2024)
With Flecktones’ “OG” Jeff Coffin onstage and their shared connection with a banjo player named Béla, there was almost no way Sierra Hull and the saxophonist couldn’t team up on “Stomping Grounds.”
Hull’s been playing the tune on the regular with Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart for the past few years and though Coffin - now with Dave Matthews Band - has not, she and he turned in a fiery bit of call on mandolin and response on soprano sax while performing the track March 23 in Tennessee. Hull got her fiddler, drummer, bassist and guitarist involved in the wordless conversation, too, and the just-released, pro-shot video is just the thing to make fans aware they missed something quite special, indeed.
Grade card: Sierra Hull with Jeff Coffin - “Stomping Grounds” (Live - 3/23/24) - A+
4/5/24
#Youtube#sierra hull#jeff coffin#béla fleck and the flecktones#béla fleck#my bluegrass heart#dave matthews band#stomping grounds
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Béla Fleck and the Flecktones - The Ballad of Jed Clampett
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Tracklist:
Sea Brazil • Frontiers • Hurricane Camille • Half Moon Bay • The Sinister Minister • Sunset Road • Flipper • Mars Needs Women Pt. 1 (Space Is A Lonely Place) • Mars Needs Women Pt. 2 (They're Here) • Reflections Of Lucy • Tell It To The Gov'nor
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#hyltta-polls#polls#artist: béla fleck and the flecktones#language: instrumental#decade: 1990s#Jazz Fusion#Progressive Bluegrass#Jamgrass
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@leonstamatis tagged me to rec a song for every letter of my url so STRAP IN I GUESS
c - caustic prayer - eidola
h - heart of gold - ilsey ft. bon iver
a - and i smoke - hot mulligan
r - revive - crying
a - a moment so close - béla fleck and the flecktones
z - zombies ate my neighbors - single file
n - nice to you - vulfmon ft. jacob jeffries
a - alchemist - good kid
b - bunny is a rider - caroline polachek
l - let’s throw a party! - sammy rae & the friends
e - easy (live ver.) - may earlewine & theo katzman
s - soapy water - chase petra
c - cenotaph - woe.begone
a - ashtray - hippo campus
n - no strings - i fight dragons
o - obituary - nick lutsko
n - nightlifetypebeat - nightlife
t - the summoning - sleep token
o - only a lad - oingo boingo
y - you look like a drunk phoebe bridgers - winona fighter
o - oh! - the linda lindas
t - the ballad of smokin’ joe rudeboy - tom cardy
a - air quotes - stop.drop.rewind
uhhhh tagging @ibitedoctors @tallahasseemp3 @haunthouse @citadelofswords and whoever else wants to
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♪10 Songs♫
tagged by @fritzwilhelm 💛✌🏻
genre's all over the place as always. no theme really, just songs that have stuck with me and i'd like more people know!
Sinister Minister by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
Doomed by Moses Sumney
Choir by Pig Pen Theatre Co.
Lullaby by The Cure
Kaneda by Geinō Yamashirogumi
Ghetto Defendant by The Clash
The Foggy Dew by Sinéad O'Connor & The Chieftains
Pigs by Aesop Rock (+bonus Blockhead remix)
The Killing Moon by Echo & the Bunnymen
Asylum by Crass
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Tagging a handful of mutuals (and whoever reads this and wants to do it too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) @discoerysimum @leftshoethief @goodplace-janet @gallifreygal @zerobotic @sweetsummerchildofmine @margflower @wastelandimperiatrix @nonlinear-nonsubjective @aaghht
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Low-flying birds
The sampled song is a sped up version of Flight of the Cosmic Hippo by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.
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Kind of a silly title, but damn this harmonica player is amazing. Not only did he develop the (now well-known) "overblows" technique allowing a diatonic harmonica to hit any note, he's also just... impossibly good at playing. Casually playing a song in D on an Ab harmonica. Using tongue-blocking to play two-part Bach counterpoint.
For me as a listener, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones was about Victor shredding on bass, but clearly I was sleeping on the harmonica player.
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holy shit how did i not know Future Man from Béla Fleck and the Flecktones is a sovereign citizen guy
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Song Review: Umphrey’s McGee feat. Huey Lewis & the News and Jeff Coffin - “Let’s Dance”
It’s weird enough that Umphrey’s McGee and Huey Lewis & the News would team up to remake “Let’s Dance.”
But the really fucked-up thing is how well it works.
The vocally challenged jamband and the pop-rock group bring their polar opposites together to create an eminently enjoyable - if unadventurous - cover of David Bowie’s first serious turn toward radio-friendly singles.
The unlikely joint - also featuring Flecktones/Dave Matthews Band saxophonist Jeff Coffin - was recorded in 2018 on “the Howard Stern Show” and just released as a standalone.
With Lewis singing Bowiesque vocals and adding some harmonica to go with Coffin’s brass, the McGees essentially create a carbon copy of Bowie’s soundtrack. In the end, it’s nothing but weird fun; and sometimes weird fun is just what’s needed.
Grade card: Umphrey’s McGee feat. Huey Lewis & the News and Jeff Coffin - “Let’s Dance” - B
1/17/24
#umphrey’s mcgee#huey lewis and the news#david bowie#let’s dance#jeff coffin#béla fleck and the flecktones#dave matthews band#the howard stern show#Youtube
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Béla Fleck – Már csak néhány jegy van a koncertjére
Béla Fleck – Már csak néhány jegy van a koncertjére - https://metalindex.hu/2024/01/05/bela-fleck-mar-csak-nehany-jegy-van-a-koncertjere/ -
Hat héttel az esemény előtt technikailag telt házas Béla Fleck Müpa-fellépése, már csak a jegyirodákban lehet elcsípni 1-2 jegyet. Február 14-én a Bartók Béla Nemzeti Hangversenyteremben láthatjuk a világhírű bendzsóművészt, ez lesz a harmadik budapesti koncertje.
Akik emlékeznek Béla Fleck előző, nyolc évvel ezelőtti koncertjére, bizonyára azt is tudják, miért hívják Bélának az Amerikában született bendzsójátékost. Nem magyar családi gyökerek okán: az egyébként szlovák ősöktől származó muzsikus zenerajongó édesapja Bartók miatt adta fiának ezt a keresztnevet, amely determinálta Béla Fleck életét. De nemcsak amolyan átlagos zenész lett belőle, hanem egyenesen az a bendzsózseni, akit a világon a legtöbb kategóriában jelöltek Grammy-díjra. Ezúttal egy igazi allstar bluegrass együttes élén tér vissza Budapestre.
Az 1958-as születésű Fleck hangszerének igazi virtuóza, aki mindig innovatív módon, technikailag is tökéletes játékkal keresi az új és még újabb lehetőségeket a bendzsó megszólaltatásában, valamint más műfajokkal való házasításában. Ebben társa felesége, Abigail Washburn is, akivel legutóbb, 2015-ben láthattuk-hallhattuk a Müpában. 2007-ben viszont még Béla Fleck And The Flecktones nevű zenekarával érkezett az A38-ra, a jazz-fusion és a jammelések felé terelve a progresszív bluegrasst. Mielőtt 1988-ban megalapította leghíresebb formációját, hosszú évekig a prog bluegrass egyik alapzenekarával, a New Grass Revivallal zenélt. Nála azonban idővel valóban bármi szóba jöhetett, igen tekintélyes számú, 38 Grammy-jelölése (amelyből 15-öt díjra is váltott) rengetegféle kategóriából áll össze: country, pop, dzsessz, bluegrass, klasszikus, folk, spoken word, világzene, american roots stb. Mostani koncertjén a 2021-ben megjelent, szintén Grammy-díjas ’My Bluegrass Heart’ című lemezét mutatja be olyan nagynevű bluegrass-zenésztársakkal – Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz, Bryan Sutton –, akik valószínűleg még sosem jártak Magyarországon.
A koncert további részletei az esemény Facebook-oldalán.
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Chick Corea And Béla Fleck - The Enchantment
https://www.discogs.com/release/1446687-Chick-Corea-And-B%C3%A9la-Fleck-The-Enchantment
Please join me in mourning here at the funeral for my internet music nerd cool points, because I'm about to talk about how I like this album.
The Enchantment is a 2007 collaborative album between two relatively polarizing artists in the world of jazz: Chick Corea (a virtuoso pianist best known by most for his synth-tastic 70s and 80s jazz fusion with groups like Return to Forever and his Elektric Band) and Béla Fleck (a virtuoso banjo player best known for putting slap bass together with electric banjo shredding in the 90s with his group The Flecktones). They're both solidly in the "love it or hate it" world of music. Chick and Béla both came originally from the more traditional end of their genres (jazz and bluegrass respectively) and both leapt wholeheartedly into the world of weird and generally uncool music. As an ardent jazz fusion apologist I'm naturally a huge Chick Corea fan. I also love his more avant-garde recordings, and his more straight ahead jazz. As for Béla Fleck, I've always been more partial to his acoustic work, both his early bluegrass recordings and his more out-there modern acoustic recordings.
So where does The Enchantment lie? It's all-acoustic, which by 2007 was starting to become the norm again for both players and continues to be my preference for Béla's work, and features no additional players and no overdubs. Musically, I'd say it's jazz-adjacent. The general writing style feels very reminiscent of Chick's writing on My Spanish Heart and much of his other Spanish-influenced 70s work, despite Béla having the majority of the writing credits on the album (6 to Chick's 4, with the 11th credit going to Ary Barroso for their use of his classic 1939 tune Brazil). Interestingly it also won a Latin Grammy for Best Instrumental Album, which was not on my bingo card for things that would come up on this blog but apparently should have been.
An instrumental piano & banjo duo album feels like a dangerous sort of record to try and make, especially with the goal of the album being to feel like a true duo recording rather than an accompanist & soloist arrangement. I think it's testament to the profound level of skill and experience of both players that this record sounds like anything more than a mess. While the playing is virtuosic and frequently quite busy, it's very clear that both players are really listening to and engaging with each other. I don't like to get on my high horse about listening to music ~as a musician~ (whatever that really means), but this is an album where that sort of musical synchronicity and mutual respect really sticks out to me in a way that may be less apparent to non-musicians, who may focus more on the speed and precision of many of these parts. On a related note, I particularly love the unison lines on this album. It's fascinating to me how they can both play the same thing at the same time and blend while also still sounding radically like themselves and often quite different from each other, with Chick's playing taking a more fluid, flourishing style and Béla tending more towards very tight and precise lines. You can tell there's a deep level of listening happening between the players, and it's a pleasure to hear.
Similarly, I'm really impressed by the mix on this album. While it may not immediately jump out, I can tell you from experience that this is not an easy sort of combo to mix. Piano has an extremely large sound that dominates the frequency band (particularly with a player like Chick, who tends to play wide across multiple octaves), whereas banjo has a small, clicky sound, very narrowly focused on a much smaller band of highs and high mids. It's tough to balance those in a way that sounds both even and natural, and I think Bernie Kirsch did a great job. I'm sure the legendary mastering expertise of Bernie Grundman (a double Bernie event!) helped here too.
The copy in front of me is the original 2007 US CD release on Concord. The album has never been issued on vinyl, and has never been reissued outside of a 2021 Japan-only SHM-CD release (a running theme you'll see on here with many jazz albums). The liner notes are simple but effective, with clear credits, a centerfold photo of the recording session, and some Special Thanks (including a shout-out to L. Ron Hubbard, who was also not on my bingo card for this blog but should come as no surprise since Chick was a devout Scientologist from the 70s on through the rest of his life). The graphic design and presentation of the whole thing is pretty ugly in that classic 00s way. And honestly I don't know that it looked great at the time either, but I guess Creed did mad numbers back then so what do I know? Regardless, the wacky carnival font and goofy digital collage on the front cover are sure to turn most modern listeners off right from the start. I can't imagine someone who isn't already a fan of one or both artists ever picking this up from the rack and giving it a shot.
That being said, those that do pick it up are in for a treat. There's a lot of great playing and songwriting on this, and while I doubt it would make a top 10 list for either artist involved I think that's more of a testament to the significance and reach of their careers rather than a slight against the album itself. If you like either or both artists I highly recommend giving this one a listen. If you're not familiar with them this may not be the most informative starting point, but it's certainly not a bad one. This is also an excellent listen for anyone who plays an instrument; there's a lot to learn here about top-level interplay and listening. Check it out if that sounds like your sort of thing. And until next time, may your graphic design stay tasteful and may your playing stay tasty.
#album review#chick corea#béla fleck#jazz#jazz fusion#latin jazz#The Enchantment#Concord Records#discogs#random collection item
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Time for your Rock Report
The B-52s have spoken out against Tennessee bills targeting transgender people and drag artists. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee last week signed a bill banning drag performances in front of children, passed alongside separate legislation to restrict gender affirming-healthcare for transgender youth. Sharing their anguish over the legislation, The B-52s wrote on Twitter, "Dear fellow citizens, We, The B-52's, are deeply concerned about the numerous new bills that promote transphobia and discrimination against transgender individuals and drag artists, which have been introduced in the United States." "We strongly denounce these bills and stand in solidarity with out LGBTQ+ community," added the new wave band. They said that such blatant attempts to undermine the rights of individuals based on their gender identity and sexual orientation in the 21st century is unacceptable.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Mayer and Alanis Morissette have been confirmed as headliners of Sound on Sound 2023. The second edition of the Sound On Sound Festival is scheduled to take place September 30 through October 1 at Seaside Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss are set to headline the 50th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. The 50th edition of Telluride Bluegrass Festival will also feature performances from The String Cheese Incident and the original Béla Fleck and The Flecktones. The Planet Bluegrass-produced festival will return to Telluride Town Park in Colorado June 15th-18, 2023. "Fifty years is an incredible accomplishment in the music industry; one you don't see often. We are thrilled to have made it to this milestone," says Grace Barrett, Director of Communication and Partnerships for Planet Bluegrass.
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Béla Fleck and the Flecktones - A Moment So Close
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Béla Fleck and the Flecktones - The Sinister Minister
Good and sinister morning to all.
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