I'm just going to post a few YouTube videos here, mainly for me to enjoy later. Béla Fleck is a banjo player extraordinaire. I love him. I've seen him live a few times, which makes me love him all the more. There's nothing like live music (with, perhaps, the exception of Miles Davis, whose back we saw live at Wolf Trap, or Eric Clapton, who let his band do the heavy lifting at a concert in San Jose).
Anyway, Béla is wonderful. Check him out. This first clip also features Chick Corea; we saw the two of them at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 2015.
This next one is a cut from a brand-new (released September 10) album, My Bluegrass Heart.
And here is Béla and his bluegrass banjo-playing wife, Abigail Washburn, from a 2018 NPR Tiny Desk Concert:
Here is Béla and the Flecktones—his central identity (at least, that's how I look at it)—from 2018:
And finally, Béla and the original Flecktones, from 2011, which included the amazing keyboardist and harmonica player Howard Levy—man, am I glad I got to hear him play in person:
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