10145 - CHICK COREA & BÉLA FLECK - TWO, DISC ONE (2015)

CHICK COREA & BÉLA FLECK
''TWO, DISC ONE''
SEPTEMBER 11 2015
114:53

DISC ONE (49:40)
1 C.C.'s Intro 00:52
2 Senorita 08:25
3 Menagerie 10:26
4 B.F. On The Waltse 01:00
5 Waltse For Abby 08:25
6 C.C. And B.F. On Joban 01:37
7 Joban Dna Nopia 09:19
8 The Climb 03:43
9 Mountain 05:30
Tracks 1, 2, 7 By Chick Corea
Tracks 3, 4, 8, 9 By Béla Fleck
Track 6 By Chick Corea & Béla Fleck

DISC TWO (65:28)
1 Brazil 09:01
2 The Enchantment 09:46
3 B.F. on Bugle Call 00:16
4 Bugle Call Rag 03:38
5 C.C. and B.F. on Dutilleux 01:01
6 Prelude en Berceuse 03:35
7 Children's Song No. 6 14:49
8 C.C. and B.F. On Spectacle 02:22
9 SPectacle 06:34
10 Sunset Road 10:30
11 Armando's Rhumba 03:51
Track 1 By Ary Barroso, Sidney Russell
Tracks 2, 7, 11 By Chick Corea
Tracks 3, 9, 10 By Béla Fleck
Track 4 By Billy Meyers, Jack Pettis
Track 5, 8 By Chick Corea, Béla Fleck
Track 6 By Henri Dutilleux

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ABOUT
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Banjo maestro Béla Fleck and legendary jazz pianist Chick Corea have announced a fall tour. The duo will hit the road in support of a new live album, Two, which is due on September 11 via Concord Jazz.


The duo first paired up in 2006 to record what would become 2007's The Enchantment, which was supported by multiple years of touring. Two features the tracks recorded during those lengthy tours. “We love to be spontaneous,” said Fleck on his collaboration with Corea. “Playing with Chick is one of the high- water marks in my musical life, and I’m amazed and proud that it came to be.” Corea returned the compliments: “Béla is a continuous fountain of creativity. He always maintains a spirit of inquiry and high-level musical judgment. His work ethic is impeccable. That’s always inspiring to me.”

The tour begins at Santa Fe's Opera House on September 4 and is currently slated to run through a performance at the Carolina Theatre in Durham on October 4. Along the way the pair will cross the country with visits to NYC's Town Hall and the Hollywood Bowl among the stops.

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WEBSITE CHICK COREA
WEBSITE BÉLA FLECK

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7796 - BÉLA FLECK & ABIGAIL WAHSBURN (2014)

BÉLA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN
''BÉLA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN''
OCTOBER 7 2014
45:55

1 Railroad
Traditional 3:38
2 Ride to You
Abigail Washburn 4:17
3 What'cha Gonna Do
Béla Fleck 3:48
4 Little Birdie
Béla Fleck / Abigail Washburn 4:21
5 New South Africa
Béla Fleck 4:36
6 Pretty Polly
Traditional 3:45
7 Shotgun Blues
Abigail Washburn 3:18
8 For Children: No. 3 Quasi Adagio/No. 10 Allegro Molto - Children's Dance
Béla Bartók 2:16
9 And Am I Born to Die
Traditional 4:02
10 Banjo Banjo
Béla Fleck 3:51
11 What Are They Doing in Heaven Today?
Traditional 4:37
12 Bye Bye Baby Blues
Béla Fleck / Juno Fleck / Little Hat Jones / Abigail Washburn 3:26

About the performance
SMF favorites Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn have each brought original projects to the festival throughout the years, but this is their first performance to embrace the intricate art of the duet. Though they have played as a duo since they first met, trying impromptu duets at picking parties, doing a few tunes at benefits and occasional radio shows together, they never took their act on the road until now. With the birth of their little boy Juno and deciding that the best way to stay together more would be to play together more, Fleck and Washburn began developing their duo as a real touring act, employing the relatively rare three-finger and clawhammer banjo duet to create boundless and beautiful music.

REVIEW
by Thom Jurek
According to Béla Fleck, he and his wife and fellow banjo player Abigail Washburn began playing together almost upon meeting. They've recorded together before on Washburn's first album, Song of the Traveling Daughter (he produced it), and with the Sparrow Quartet with Ben Sollee and Casey Driessen, but never before as a duo. The music on this self-titled offering was developed on tour before cutting it in their home studio. The tunes range from traditional folk songs to originals with compelling instrumentals woven in: two pieces by Béla Bartók in a medley, a redo of the Flecktones' "New South Africa," and the pair's "Banjo Banjo," which might be the best of the three for its timbral colors, warmth, and thematic variety. Both players are versed in many forms of music, and while that can't help but be on display, the real showcase is musical intimacy. These two banjo players combine different styles to shape a dialogue that speaks directly and distinctly to a love for tradition; they carry it forward as well. "Railroad" (as in, "I've Been Working on the...") contrasts her clawhammer style and Fleck's three-finger jazz-oriented syncopation. The bridge between approaches is the blues, outlined in a unique cadence by Washburn's crystalline vocal. In the murder ballad "Pretty Polly," the banjos talk to one another over octave ranges, conversing over time and space as modern stylistic developmental imagination is balanced by old-timey utterances. Washburn's voice relates the harrowing tale with haunting resonance. Her "Shotgun Blues," featuring her Gold Tone cello banjo, displays her percussive thumb strokes accenting each sung line as Fleck improvises on Celtic reels and Appalachian folk styles. His "What'cha Gonna Do" updates the gospel song "Sinner Man" but is still a warning -- this one signals a judgment day wrought by the earth as recompense for human abuse. Washburn's "Little Birdie" is almost hypnotic; her thumb stroke creates a near drone as Fleck bends notes to underscore the song's narrative meaning and assent to her vocal. The traditional folk song "And Am I Born to Die" offers not only Washburn's finest signing on the set, but innovative instrumental sections composed by Fleck that add power to the song's history. "What Are They Doing in Heaven Today?" is one of the more beautiful country gospel songs in the canon. The instrumental understatement displays canny melodic interplay. The set closes with "Bye Bye Baby Blues," featuring new lyrics drenched in modern irony. It preserves the swinging Texas feel of George "Little Hat" Jones' OKeh version (and uses his chorus), while highlighting the tune's rag-like quality. The way almost tuba-like basslines, tight chord voicings, and slippery fills wind around one another reveals what is so distinctive about the album as a whole: Abigail Washburn and Béla Fleck don't need a band -- they and their banjos are one.

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1540 - BÉLA FLECK AND THE MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO - Across the Imaginary Divide (2012)

BÉLA FLECK AND THE MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO
''ACROSS THE IMAGINARY DIVIDE''
JUN 5 2012
ROUNDER
62:43
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01 - Some Roads Lead Home/0:6:10
02 - I'm Gonna Tell You This Story One More Time/0:5:38
03 - Across the Imaginary Divide/0:4:41
04 - Let Me Show You What To Do/0:4:50
05 - Petunia/0:4:57
06 - Topaika/0:4:28
07 - One Blue Truth/0:4:22
08 - Let's Go/0:5:53
09 - Kalimba/0:6:16
10 - The Sunshine and the Moonlight/0:5:32
11 - That Old Thing/0:5:01
12 - That Ragtime Feeling/0:4:05

Béla Fleck/Banjo
Rodney Jordan/Bass
Jason Marsalis/Drums
Marcus Roberts/Piano