Béla Fleck

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Béla Fleck

Béla Fleck (born July 10, 1958 in New York ) is an American bluegrass and jazz musician.

Béla Fleck started playing folk guitar in early childhood . When he was 15 years old, his grandfather gave him a banjo . Since then the banjo has been his main instrument. Fleck plays with bands and musicians from various fields. From 1981 to 1989 he was a member of New Grass Revival . He is the band leader of the Flecktones (with Victor Wooten among others ), but worked with Edgar Meyer on several releases on Sony Classical.

From 1995 to 2016, Fleck won 15 Grammys in fields as diverse as country, jazz, pop, world music and crossover classic and was nominated another 30 times.

He played the driving banjo in the official song of the 2004 European Football Championship in Portugal: Força ("Hau rein!") By Nelly Furtado .

Discography

solo

  • Crossing the Tracks ( Rounder Records , 1979)
  • Natural Bridge (Rounder Records, 1982)
  • Double Time (Rounder Records, 1984)
  • Inroads (Rounder Records, 1986)
  • Daybreak (Compilation, Rounder Records, 1987)
  • Drive (Rounder Records, 1988)
  • Places (Compilation, Rounder Records, 1988)
  • Tales from the Acoustic Planet ( Warner Brothers , 1995)
  • Tales from the Acoustic Planet Vol 2, the Bluegrass Sessions (Warner Brothers, 1999)
  • Perpetual Motion ( Sony Classical , 2001)
  • Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3: Africa Sessions (Rounder Records, 2009)

With New Grass Revival

  • 1984 On the Boulevard (Sugar Hill, 1984)
  • live (Sugar Hill, 1985)
  • New Grass Revival ( Capitol , 1986)
  • Hold to a Dream (Capitol, 1987)
  • Friday Night in America (Capitol, 1989)

With the stain tones

  • Béla Fleck and the Flecktones (Warner Brothers, 1990)
  • Flight of the Cosmic Hippo (Warner Brothers, 1991)
  • UFO TOFU (Warner Brothers, 1992)
  • Three Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Warner Brothers, 1993)
  • Live Art (Warner Brothers, 1996)
  • Left of Cool (Warner Brothers, 1998)
  • Greatest Hits of the 20th Century (Compilation, Warner Brothers, 1999)
  • Outbound ( Columbia Records , 2000)
  • Live at the Quick (Columbia Records, 2002)
  • Little Worlds (Columbia Records, 2003)
  • Ten from Little Worlds (Selections from Little Worlds , Columbia Records, 2003)
  • The Hidden Land (Columbia Records, 2006)
  • Jingle all the way (Rounder, 2008)
  • Rocket Science (eOne, 2011)

Collaboration albums

  • Music For Two (with Edgar Meyer, Sony Classical, 2004)
  • The Enchantment (with Chick Corea, Concord Records, 2007)
  • Across the Imaginary Divide (with The Marcus Roberts Trio, Rounder Records, 2012)
  • Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn (with Abigail Washburn, Rounder Records, 2014)
  • Two (with Chick Corea, Stretch Records, 2016)

Web links

Commons : Béla Fleck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ belafleck.com: About
personal data
SURNAME Spot, Béla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American bluegrass and jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , USA