Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
How many albums virtually upend a genre? And how many erstwhile bluegrass bands top a contemporary jazz chart?! The answer to these questions, is, one, very few, and two, only Bela Fleck and the Flecktones!
Their second album, 1991ās fancifully entitled Flight of the Cosmic Hippo, did indeed top Billboardās contemporary jazz albums chart and scored a couple of Grammy noms. But more importantly, this record really made explicit the Flecktonesā bebop leanings, as they devised the term āBlu-Bopā to describe their unique fusion of bluegrass and jazz. Stylistic whiplash has never felt so good or sounded so sweet; check out their warm, instrumental wizardry on chestnuts like āMichelleā and āThe Star Spangled Bannerā...and donāt miss BĆ©laās banjo power chords on āTurtle Rock!ā We had Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision remaster this classic for vinyl for maximum fidelity. Essential!
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How many albums virtually upend a genre? And how many erstwhile bluegrass bands top a contemporary jazz chart?! The answer to these questions, is, one, very few, and two, only Bela Fleck and the Flecktones!
Their second album, 1991ās fancifully entitled Flight of the Cosmic Hippo, did indeed top Billboardās contemporary jazz albums chart and scored a couple of Grammy noms. But more importantly, this record really made explicit the Flecktonesā bebop leanings, as they devised the term āBlu-Bopā to describe their unique fusion of bluegrass and jazz. Stylistic whiplash has never felt so good or sounded so sweet; check out their warm, instrumental wizardry on chestnuts like āMichelleā and āThe Star Spangled Bannerā...and donāt miss BĆ©laās banjo power chords on āTurtle Rock!ā We had Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision remaster this classic for vinyl for maximum fidelity. Essential!
