Building a banjo to heaven: Bla Fleck’s sound goes higher than 11. Like a picking and grinning Doctor Livingston, Béla Fleck is a musical missionary on a constant journey through undiscovered banjo ...

Banjoist Bela Fleck joins violinist Caroline Goulding, bassist Michael Thurber, and marimbist Yi Wei in performances of Bach's Violin Sonata in G minor, Presto, and Bach's Suite of Two- and Three-Part ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Heard any Bach on a banjo lately? If that conjures up a tinny twanging to drive you screaming from the room, try a dose of Bela Fleck.

This set’s arrival sent me scurrying back to listen again to Reinhard Goebel's 1985 DG set of Bach’s Brandenburgs with Musica Antiqua Koln: hyperactive, sharp-edged performances which still sound ...

Very few artists can be called revolutionary; trumpeter Miles Davis, composers Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky, and ...

Bela Fleck’s music may elude definition, but there’s no denying his capacity to put together an engaging performance. On Wednesday night at UCLA’s Royce Hall, in one of the high points, thus far, of ...

Béla Fleck is often considered the world’s greatest banjo player. The sixteen-time Grammy winner has earned awards under the headings of jazz, world music, classical, folk, bluegrass, pop instrumental ...

“The Jed Clampett of the new millennium, won’t you make welcome Mr. Bela Fleck.” Equal parts bluegrass, jazz and homegrown jam, Bela Fleck is a latter day Jed Clampett, able to lead his Flecktones ...

They’re also dead solid perfect for the beautifully intimate music husband-and-wife team Abigail Washburn and Bela Fleck bring to the table. Then again, the standard recital-hall lighting allowed the ...