Spending an hour on the phone with Béla Fleck is akin to climbing aboard a bullet train. One minute, you’re surveying the duo concerts he regularly engages in with wife Abigail Washburn, the setting ...
In one of the first scenes of “Throw Down Your Heart,” banjoist Béla Fleck is preparing to record with a group of local musicians in a field near a Ugandan village. The movie’s director, his half ...
The opening notes of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” are quintessentially cinematic. The lilt of a seductive clarinet begins a recognizable birdsong. A brassy, deep trombone responds. The two ...