Bass lovers - Bela Fleck - Flight of the Cosmic Hippo


I admit I am a little slow - this was released in 1991, so many of you are already familiar with this band/recording and possibly have worn this album out, but while I have heard the name of this band before, I have never heard them before. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones is the complete band name, just to not offend the supporting bandmates :) 

Thanks to Roon radio this track came on, and I immediately perked up and took notice to the wonderful deep rich bass coming from a fretless bass! 

So if you are not aware of this recording, and love deep bass, this is a track you'll love- the whole instrumental album is pretty good. I don't see a high res option in Qobuz but the redbook sounds just fine :) I guess I would call this music jazz? 

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Yes, that is famous. If you want to hear good bass just for the sake of it, (but good music too) the first Hot Tuna disc is great. It's recorded in a small club, and Jack Cassady's bass sounds so amazing; right in the room if your system is up to it.

@larsman 

Actually, the bass player is FutureMan's brother, Victor Wooten. FutureMan plays, in addition to percussion instruments, a weird thing called a SynthAxeDrumitar.

@minkwelder - thank you for that correction; been a long time since I've seen or listened to them. Yeah, Victor is an amazing bassist, and I didn't realize he was FutureMan's brother - I love that instrument that FutureMan plays!! 

Yeah, great CD.  Amazing bass.  Unique sound they had.  Too bad it seems like it was a one time thing.  I have several Bela Fleck and related CDs but nothing sounds like that one.