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Béla Fleck was born July 10, 1958
in New York City, New York and is an American virtuoso banjo player. He
is most well known for his work with the band Béla Fleck and the
Flecktones, which he has described as "a mixture of acoustic and
electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as
funk and jazz." Fleck, who is named after famous Hungarian composer Béla
Bartok, was drawn to the banjo when he first heard Earl Scruggs play the
theme song for the television show Beverly Hillbillies. He received his
first banjo at age fifteen from his grandfather (1973). Later, Fleck
would enroll in New York City's High School of Music and Art where he
studied French horn. Almost immediately after high school, Fleck
traveled to Boston to play with Jack Tottle and Mark Schatz in Tasty
Licks. It is with Tasty Licks that Fleck played on his first major
album. During this period, Fleck released his first solo album (1979):
Crossing the Tracks. It was Fleck's first foray into
progressive-bluegrass composition.
After a 1988 phone call with bassist Victor Wooten, Fleck and Wooten
formed Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, rounded out with harmonica player
Howard Levy and Wooten's percussionist brother Roy "Future Man" Wooten,
who plays synthesizer-based percussion. Saxophonist Jeff Coffin joined
the group with the album Left of Cool. With the Flecktones, Fleck has
been nominated for and won several Grammy awards. Fleck has shared
Grammy wins with Asleep at the Wheel, Alison Brown, and Edgar Meyer. He
has been nominated in more categories than any other musician, namely
country, pop, jazz, bluegrass, classical, folk, and spoken word, as well
as composition and arranging.
In 2001, Fleck collaborated with long-time friend and playing-partner
Edgar Meyer to record Perpetual Motion, an album of classical material
played on the banjo along with an assortment of accompanists, including
John Williams, Evelyn Glennie, Joshua Bell and Gary Hoffman. The album
includes such staggeringly difficult selections as Chopin's Etude Op. 10
No. 4 in C# minor, Debussy's Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum, and Paganini's
Moto Perpetuo (from which is derived the name), as well as more lyrical
pieces such as the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, two
of Chopin's mazurkas, and two Scarlatti keyboard sonatas. Perpetual
Motion won two Grammy's at the Grammy Awards of 2002 for Best Classical
Crossover Album and Best Arrangement for Fleck and Meyer's arrangement
of Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum. Fleck and Meyer have also composed a
Banjo concerto that has been played numerous times with the Nashville
Symphony Orchestra.
In 2005, while the Flecktones were on hiatus, Fleck undertook several
new projects, including recording with African traditional musicians,
cowriting a documentary film called 'Bring it Home' about the
Flecktone's first year off in 17 years and their reunion after that
time, coproducing Song of the Traveling Daughter, the debut album by
Abigail Washburn, a young female banjo player who mixes bluegrass and
Chinese music, and perhaps most notably forming the Acoustic Fusion
supergroup TRIO! with fellow virtuosos Jean-Luc Ponty and Stanley Clark
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