Broad Spectrum Virtuosity | Music for Two (Bonus DVD) | Unspecified, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

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	• Music for Two (Bonus DVD) Unspecified, Johann Sebastian Bach, ... Sony, 2004 average customer review:based on 19 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Bela Fleck and his banjo

I have been a Bela Fleck fan for many years. I am very pleased with this purchase. It is Bela and Edgar Meyer on a concert tour. As always, his music is very inspiring because he continues to search "outside the box."
This is a CD of their performance pieces, plus a great DVD of their creative process, performance, and cameraderie with each other. It is fascinating to watch, and there are a few laughs as these two musicians work things out together. It is filmed by Bela's brother.

Broad Spectrum Virtuosity

This album runs the gamut of styles and genre. It is hard to get bored when a musical turn is but a few notes away. The two musicians integrate their instruments with incredible skill. I hate to give it a four star rating. The music is worth the 5. The loooooong, live applause tracks detract from the album. The asides by the musicians are sometimes hard to hear. Minor aggravations aside,this album plays frequently, very frequently, in our home,car, iPods, etc.

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A treasure

These guys perform with their hearts on fire, and their minds on ice. Their skill is astonishing, their passion evident, and their selection of music superb. Without a doubt, these are two of the greatest musicians alive today.

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Amazing stuff

This is a wonderful CD, & the bonus video is also fun. The music is truly amazing, although it is not the type of disc I will keep in frequent rotation. I'm certainly glad I own it, and I play it on my iTunes lists.

Give it time...

It took me a while to really get into this. It's a different beast than say "Skip, Hop, & Wobble," but that doesn't have to be a bad thing. There are several single items within this package that I would say are worth the price alone. One is the track "Palmyra." Wow! The second would be the opportunity to let this grow on you over time. The third would be the DVD. I highly recommend the DVD as a compliment to the audio. It brings you into the world that this recording was made in. There was pressure to get "Canon" down pat, but there is also the story of an amazing musical connection between Fleck and Meyer that causes things like "Palmyra" to happen without blinking an eye (for them). We see them push themselves to meet a deadline, but we also find that they so naturally work well together on more traditional tunes, like "The One I Left Behind."

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On Music for Two, banjo wizard Béla Fleck and stand-up bass maestro Edgar Meyer effortlessly sail through a challenging program that includes compositions by Bach, a sonata by Henry Eccles, a Miles Davis tune, and a number of self-composed finger twisters. The amazing thing about this varied selection is not its eclecticism--which is only to be expected with these two--but that it all blends together so seamlessly. Fleck's jazz-tinged compositions (like "The Lake Effect") and Meyer's bluegrass-inspired tunes (like "Wishful Thinking") sit so comfortably next to Bach's baroque jewels and Davis's cool jazz that it makes you question the entire of concept of musical classification. (In fact, the Bach preludes, inventions, and partitas translate so well to the banjo/bass arrangements, you have to wonder if old JSB might not have had a bit of bluegrass in his soul.) Music for Two was recorded live at a series of 2001 concerts, where Fleck and Meyer proved conclusively that the banjo and the bass were capable of remarkable subtlety and not just twang and boom. --Michael John Simmons

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Tracks
Bug Tussle - Béla Fleck, Fleck, Bela | Invention No. 10, BMV 796 - Béla Fleck, Bach, Johann Sebast | Pile-Up - Béla Fleck, Davis, Miles | Prelude No. 24, BMV 869 - Béla Fleck, Fleck, Bela | Solar - Béla Fleck, Meyer, Edgar | Blue Spruce - Béla Fleck, Fleck, Bela | Canon - Béla Fleck, Bach, Johann Sebast | The One I Left Behind - Béla Fleck, Bach, Johann Sebast | Menuett I-II, BMV 825 - Béla Fleck, Fleck, Bela | Prelude No. 2, BMV 847 - Béla Fleck, Fleck, Bela | Palmyra - Béla Fleck, Eccles, Henry [the | The Lake Effect - Béla Fleck, Eccles, Henry [the | Largo (From Sonata) - Béla Fleck, Fleck, Bela | Allegro Vivace (From Sonata) - Béla Fleck, Fleck, Bela | Wrong Number - Béla Fleck, Meyer, Edgar | Woolly Mammoth | Wishful Thinking

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