Béla Fleck – Rhapsody in Blue (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:35 minutes | 770 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Béla Fleck Productions
Over the past four decades, Bela Fleck has made it a point to boldly go where no banjoist has gone before ― a musical journey that has earned him 16 Grammy Awards in nine different fields, including country, pop, jazz, instrumental, classical and world music. His new project is no different, and yet it is completely original, as Fleck expands and explores George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”, paying homage to the legendary composer and reinterpreting American classics just in time for its centenary. By a happy coincidence, the release of the album on February 12, 2024 coincides with the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Rhapsody in Blue.
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Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Zakir Hussain – As We Speak (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:17 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Béla Fleck Productions
A new project from perception shattering musicians Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer, and Rakesh Chaurasia, As We Speak brings together their unique takes on Indian and Western Classical music, Jazz and Bluegrass. Weaving a sonic tapestry of banjo, tabla, double bass, and bansuri, these artists convene to make some of the most soulful, fascinating and undefinable music found in today’s world.
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Chick Corea & Bela Fleck – Two (Live) (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:54:50 minutes | 2,03 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Jazz
Cover art and liner notes included
Chick Corea & Béla Fleck, two master songwriters, musicians, and band leaders meet once again in a historic duet of piano and banjo. The Grammy-winning duet, combine Corea and Fleck s classic tunes with the music from their Grammy-winning album The Enchantment! With a mix of jazz and pop standards, crossing a myriad of genres, from jazz, bluegrass, rock, flamenco and gospel, this album captures the casual, intimate playing by both legends from different musical worlds. Fans of legendary jazz pianist Chick Corea and bebop/bluegrass banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck are well aware of the pair’s previous collaborations (Corea guests on two Flecktones albums, and Fleck appears on Corea’s Rendezvous in New York DVD), but on their full-length release in 2007, The Enchantment, the two went into the project with an intense seriousness of purpose.
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Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Jie-Bing Chen, Bela Fleck – Tabula Rasa (1996) [Reissue 2001]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 54:21 minutes | PDF Booklet | 2,19 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | PDF Booklet | 903 MB
Foremost innovator on the banjo, Béla Fleck is joined by Hindustani master V. M. Bhatt and Chinese virtuoso Jie-Bing Chen in a collaboration that begins with a clean slate and culminates in a masterpiece of synthesis. Adding poignant but subtle coloring to this unique work are Hindustani flutist Ronu Majumdar and violinist Sangeeta Shankar, as well the Karnatak percussionist Puvalur Srinivasan on mridangam.
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Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Jie-Bing Chen, Bela Fleck – Tabula Rasa (1996)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 54:07 minutes | 981 MB | Genre: World
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Water Lily Acoustics
The combination of Bhatt’s sultry mohan vina and Fleck’s precision banjo work creates unique textures. Add to that the rare quality of Chen’s erh-hu and you have the makings of something special.’
Another in the series of successful and intriguing collaborations involving adventurous Hindustani musician Bhatt. This time it’s American banjo wizard of the genre crossing variety, Bela Fleck, joining Bhatt along with Chinese erh-hu virtuoso Tie-Bing Chen. They are accompanied by Sangeeta Shankar on violin as well as Ronu Majumdar’s flute and the percussion of P. Srinivasan. Spontaneous artistic creativity that defies geography and categories.
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Bela Fleck – Drive (1988) [MFSL 2005]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 52:03 minutes | Scans included | 2,09 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Full Scans included | 623 MB
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab # UDSACD 7003 | Genre: Country
Béla Anton Leoš Fleck is an American banjo player. Widely acknowledged as one of the world’s most innovative and technically proficient banjo players, he is best known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. “Drive” was produced toward the end of Fleck’s New Grass Revival career and before the Flecktones were formed and included an all-star list of bluegrass performers.
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Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn – Echo In The Valley (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:33 minutes | 910 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New Rounder
2017 album from the multi-talented couple dubbed “King & Queen of the banjo”. Features “Don’t Let It Bring You Down” & “If I Could Talk To a Younger Me”.
With one eye on using the banjo to showcase America’s rich heritage and the other pulling the noble instrument from its most familiar arena into new and unique realms, Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn’s second album Echo in the Valley is simultaneously familiar and wildly innovative.
Echo in the Valley is the follow up to Béla and Abigail’s acclaimed, self-titled debut that earned the 2016 Grammy for Best Folk Album. This time around, the mission was to take their double banjo combination of three finger and clawhammer styles “to the next level and find things to do together that we had not done before,” says Béla. “We’re expressing different emotions through past techniques and going to deeper places.” The results are fascinating, especially considering their strict rules for recording: all sounds must be created by the two of them, the only instruments used are banjos (they have seven between them, ranging from a ukulele to an upright bass banjo), and they must be able to perform every recorded song live.
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