Word: banjo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...centerpiece of Bela Fleck's music is his banjo. Now, maybe your image of a banjo is something that sits on Granny Smith's lap while she strokes Flash the basset hound and waits for the Confederate boys to boot the Yankees out of Atlanta. There is still hope for redemption, even for those prejudiced few who've let their musical image of the banjo be perverted by Roscoe P. Coltrane and Boss...
...music on Fleck's new CD, "Tales from the Acoustic Planet," is not simply to be defined as bluegrass, folk, jazz, blues, funk or classical. It sounds something like jazz, but it's scored like classical and played on a banjo. Fleck has sculpted an acoustically-based musical style that is like nothing this listener has ever heard before...
...early 1900s, the only Harvard band was a group of banjo players who entertained the fans at home football games, according to records on file in the University archives...
...perceived by incredulous baseball fans as the aggrieved party and as advocates of accommodation, compromise had no place on either team's lineup card. When the season began, the owners wanted a salary cap. Not surprisingly, the players wanted the free market to continue to determine whether a banjo hitter batting .220 with a good glove could command $1.5 million for part-time work. When the season was terminated, nothing had changed...
...think he could be a better banjo player than you-know-who is on the sax," Travers said...