Bela Fleck歌手简介:
Béla Fleck可谓是世界班卓琴王，别人称赞他说：他通过许多很有特色和风格的演出、录音重新塑造了班卓琴的音色和形象。如果你熟悉他的音乐，你会知道他是一个酷爱班卓琴，并致力于把它放在独特的音乐环境中的人。他前后获得20次“格莱美奖”提名，并九次获得该项大奖，而且获得奖项涉及到现代爵士、流行乐器曲、世界音乐、新约、现代古典、乡村乐器曲、现代民谣、蓝草、作曲等多个不同领域。这在“格莱美奖”历史上是绝无仅有的。在近30年的音乐生涯中，他能演奏包括蓝草、爵士、流行、摇滚、世界音乐等不同的音乐形式。虽然他的名字是来自三位古典音乐作曲大师的名字：巴托克（Bartok）、德沃夏克（Dvorak）和杨纳切赫（Janacek），但他最近才开始涉及古典音乐。在第44届“格莱美奖”年度颁奖中，他第一次创作的古典音乐：2001年的《永动》荣获了2项格莱美奖。
最初他学习音乐是从吉他开始的，一次偶然在电视上看到的传统歌曲使他充满了兴趣，自此他转而开始弹奏班卓琴。由于生活在纽约，Béla Fleck能接触到风格各异的音乐，包括爵士乐。于是后来他开始用班卓琴演奏爵士乐 —— 一种前所未闻的音乐的融合。上个世纪八十年代，大部分时间Béla Fleck是在一个充满创新的蓝草乐队New Grass Revival中演奏，他们的音乐结合了蓝草，摇滚和乡村音乐。同时New Grass Revival的器乐专辑将班卓琴提升到了一个更加广泛的领域中。
1990年，New Grass Revival解散后，我们的班卓琴巫师组建了由爵士钢琴家Howard Levy, funk贝斯演奏家Victor Wooten和鼓手Roy Wooten组成的The Flecktones乐队。在当时，看起来他们只是田纳西州众多new-acoustic组合中不起眼的一员，或许很快就会昙花一现的被潮流淹没。然而，让人们吃惊的是，这个四重奏表现出了与众不同的活力，接二连三的出了好几张专辑。
1999年，Béla Fleck & the Flecktones与华纳分手后，与Sony's Columbia Records签订了5张唱片的合约。
Premier banjo player Béla Fleck is considered one of the most innovative pickers in the world and has done much to demonstrate the versatility of his instrument, which he uses to play everything from traditional bluegrass to progressive jazz. He was named after composer Béla Bartok and was born in New York City. Around age 15, Fleck became fascinated with the banjo after hearing Flatt & Scruggs Ballad of Jed Clampett and Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandells Dueling Banjos, and his grandfather soon gave him one. While attending the High School of Music and Art in New York, Fleck worked on adapting bebop music for the banjo.
Fleck always had diverse musical interests, and his own style was influenced by Tony Trischka, Earl Scruggs, Chick Corea, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, the Allman Brothers, Aretha Franklin, the Byrds, and Little Feat. After graduation, he joined the Tasty Licks, a group from Boston. They recorded two albums and dissolved in 1979. Afterwards, Fleck joined the Kentucky band Spectrum. That year, only five years after he took up the instrument, he made his solo recording debut with Crossing the Tracks, which the Readers Poll in Frets magazine named Best Overall Album. In 1982, he joined New Grass Revival and stayed with them until the end of the decade. During this time, his reputation continued to grow and in 1990, Frets magazine added his name to their Hall of Greats. In 1988, one of his compositions, Drive (from the album New Grass Revival), was nominated for a Grammy.
Fleck, mandolin player Sam Bush, fiddler Mark OConnor, bassist Edgar Meyer, and Dobro player Jerry Douglas teamed up in 1989 to form Strength in Numbers and record The Telluride Sessions. Late that year, Fleck was asked by PBS television to play on the upcoming Lonesome Pine Special; in response he gathered together a veritable dream team of musicians to form the Flecktones. The original members included Howard Levy, who played piano, harmonica, and ocarina, among other instruments; bass guitarist Victor Lemonte Wooten, and his brother Roy Future Man Wooten on the drumitar, an electronic drum shaped like a guitar. Though the special wasnt aired until 1992, the Flecktones recorded their eponymous debut album in 1990 and followed it up with Flight of the Cosmic Hippo (1991).
In 1993, they released their third album, UFO Tofu, which featured music blending different genres ranging from bluegrass to R&B to worldbeat. In 1995, they released Tales from the Acoustic Planet; Left of Cool followed in 1998, and Tales from the Acoustic Planet 2: The Bluegrass Sessions was released a year later. Outbound followed in mid-2000. Busy and prolific, Fleck released an album of classical pieces, Perpetual Motion, in late 2001, followed by Live at the Quick in 2002, the ambitious double-disc Little Worlds (and its truncated single-disc version, Ten from Little Worlds) in 2003, and Music for Two (with bassist Edgar Meyer) in 2004. Hidden Land, another album with the Flecktones, appeared on Columbia Records in 2006.