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Discuss “Béla Fleck and the Flecktones play Pittsburgh”

Matt’s Big 3

What I Liked: The Individual Musicianship

Béla Fleck and The Flecktones are associated with many scenes: the hippie-friendly jam band scene, the ever-talented but ever-pretentious jazz scene, and the down-south bluegrass scene. One thing that sets the group apart in every one of these categories, however, is the fabulous individual musicianship that each of Flecktones brings to the plate.

Future Man (a.k.a. Roy Wooten), the group’s “drummer,” actually plays what he calls a Synth-axe Drumitar. The instrument, shaped like an electric guitar, is loaded with buttons that activate artificial drum and percussion sounds. But because of his competency on the real drum set, which he played occasionally at Tuesday night’s performance,...

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