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more about virtuosity, while his band
vah and thinks of his Jewish back-
is more about a mood. We both love
ground as cultural, traces his apprecia-
the audience to feel good."
tion for klezmer music to Andy
Fleck performs on stages around the
Statman, who has toured with the
world with Victor Wooten on bass, Jeff
Flecktones.
Coffin on saxophone and Future Man
"We have a lot of different guests
on percussion/vocals and Synth-Axe
play with us," says Fleck, whose
Drumitar (a hybrid guitar/synth/drum
Outbound guest artists include vocal-
machine invention).
ists Shawn Colvin and Jon Anderson
Outbound, their latest release, com-
(of the group Yes), Indian classical
bines styles from bluegrass to jazz to
singer Rita Sahai, guitarist Adrian
world beat and received the Best
Belew, oboe player Paul McCandless
Contemporary Jazz Album Grammy
and keyboardist John Medeski.
this year. In addition, Fleck shared the
"The last thing I just got to do was
Grammy for Best Country
a musical goal for a long time —
Instrumental Performance with Alison
recording a classical album: Perpetual
Brown.
"We try to make our show
fresh every single night," Fleck
says. "It's like musical calis-
thenics and means constantly
playing new music, talking
about music and being in dif-
ferent situations with other
groups.
"The title Outbound perfect-
ly reflects the current state of
the Flecktones. There's a sense
of us going on a journey, a
voyage, instead of a sense of
completion. This album repre-
sents us — starting on a new
label (Sony) and becominc 4 ,
more expansive musically.
Fleck, a New York City
"We have a lot of fun
Motion, with music by
native who is Jewish on his
playing with Keb' Mo'
Bach, Beethoven and
mother's side, began playing
(pictured)," says Fleck.
Chopin. It's coming
the banjo at age 15 after being
"Sometimes, he'll come
out in September. I'd
awed by bluegrass musicians.
out and sing a song
like to continue trying
He experimented with playing
with us, and sometimes things that haven't
bebop on the banjo in high
I'll get on stage and
been done before with
school, and later joined the
play a tune with him." the banjo while inter-
band New Grass Revival. After
acting with the great
some solo work, he formed the
community of musicians."
Flecktones in 1989.
Interacting with musicians also
The Flecktones made a self-titled
offers another way of composing.
debut recording in 1990 by playing a
"I really like to compose with the
"blu-bop" mix of bluegrass and jazz.
band on stage at sound check," Fleck
The group has made a string of CDs,
explains. "We'll be checking the equip-
with each aspiring toward an innova-
ment to make sure it's working, but
tive musical impression.
we also might be writing a song.
That quest for innovation has made
"For lover's Leap,' a Latin waltz
Fleck the only musician to be nomi-
with a cabaret feel in Outbound, I
nated for a Grammy in jazz, bluegrass,
picked up my banjo at sound check
pop, country, spoken word, Christian
and just started to play that melody
composition and world music cate-
complete, although I had never played
gories.
it before or even thought of it. The
"Every time we write a new album
band started playing right away, and
or a new song, it reflects the changes
— boom — there it was."
in our attitudes toward music," says
Fleck, now living in Nashville with his
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones,
wife, Cynthia, who has worked as a
with special guest Keb' Mo', per-
record label executive. "We are always
form 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26, at
looking for new ways to sound like a
the Royal Oak Theatre, 318 W.
band together and new ways to sound
Fourth St., in Royal Oak. 535.
different."
(248) 544-7938.
Fleck, who did not have a bar mitz-
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