BA©la Fleck - Jingle All the Way

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gFvY3XnwL._SS500_.jpgTitle: Jingle All the Way

Artist: Bela Fleck

Audio CD (September 30, 2008)

Original Release Date: 2008

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Christmas

Format: Free Lossless Audio CodecTrack Listing:



01. Jingle Bells

02. Silent Night

03. Sleigh Ride

04. The Christmas Song

05. Twelve Days of Christmas

06. J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio - BVW 248 #41

07. Christmas Time Is Here

08. Linus and Lucy

09. Jingle Bells (reprise)

10. The Hanukkah Waltz

11. Danse of the Sugar Plum Fairies

12. What Child Is This/Dyngyldai

13. O Come All Ye Faithful

14. Medley: We Wish You a Merry Christmas/It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

15. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

16. River Amazon Description:

Béla Fleck, often considered the premiere banjo player in the world, has made a name for himself as a virtuoso instrumentalist unbounded by genre. His band The Flecktones - Victor Wooten on electric bass, Jeff Coffin on sax and flute, and Future Man on percussion - are equally talented and adventurous as Fleck himself, and together they have made a string of critically acclaimed albums that combine bluegrass, jazz, funk and world music with technical prowess, unlimited imagination and occasional zaniness. Their new holiday CD Jingle All the Way is all of that, with bells on - Christmas music as it's never been heard it before, with unique tonal textures (banjo, Tuvan throat singing, klezmer mandolin), hot solos and tight ensemble arrangements that make every measure new. Jingle All the Way is the perfect stocking stuffer for those who like their Christmas music fun and challenging at the same time.



Allmusic Review:

Grammy-winning banjo "fusionist" Béla Fleck and his Flecktones may be the most qualified collective to inject some life into the notoriously monotonous "holiday music" scene, and Jingle All the Way (one would think that an innovator like Fleck could come up with a more creative "Christmas" album title, or at least one that doesn't directly reference a 1996 Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy), doesn't disappoint. All of the standards are here ("Sleigh Ride," "Silent Night," "Twelve Days of Christmas"), but they're filtered through the skewed prism of an outfit capable of just about anything from klezmer, to classical to Tuvan throat singing -- the latter is provided by the internationally acclaimed Alash Ensemble. It's not all wacky though, as Fleck, Victor Wooten, Jeff Coffin, and Future Man prove reverent when needed, especially on a cover of Joni Mitchell's "River" and the Vince Guaraldi classics "Linus and Lucy" and "Christmas Time Is Here." Jingle All the Way, despite its groaner of a title and questionable "frontman in Santa hat with eggnog" photo, is anything but predictable.