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Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer
Music for Two (with bonus DVD)
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
Disc: 1
1. Bug Tussle Listen Listen Listen
2. Three-Part Invention (Sinfonia) No. 10 (BWV 796)
3. Pile-Up Listen Listen Listen
4. Prelude No. 24 , BWV 869 from the Well Tempered Clavier, Book I Listen Listen Listen
5. Solar Listen Listen Listen
6. Blue Spruce Listen Listen Listen
7. Canon
8. One I Left Behind
9. V. Menuett I-II from Partita No. 1, BWV 825
10. Prelude No. 2, BWV 847 from the Well Tempered Clavier, Book I
11. Palmyra
12. Lake Effect
13. Largo from Sonata
14. Allegro Vivace from Sonata
15. Wrong Number
16. Woolly Mammoth
17. Wishful Thinking
Disc: 2
1. Obstinato: Making Music for Two [*] - Edgar Meyer
2. Green Slime - Edgar Meyer
3. Happy Drum Drum Monkey Girl - Edgar Meyer
CD-SK92106 Music for Two (with bonus DVD) $14.95
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