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With the COVID-19 pandemic still surging, they are taking no chances on what - remarkably - is Fleck’s first bluegrass tour in 24 years. The current leg of the tour also features four other instrumental wizards: mandolinist Sam Bush dobro player Jerry Douglas guitarist Bryan Sutton and former San Diego violinist Stuart Duncan. Meyer is back on board for Fleck’s “My Bluegrass Heart” concert trek. I thought to myself: ‘I’ve never heard that in bluegrass.’ “It’s got three phrases that all land on the down beat. “The rhythmic approach in ‘Vertigo’ is one of the first things you learn if you hang with Indian musicians,” Fleck explained. Other artists he has worked with range from Dolly Parton, the Nashville Symphony and the Dave Matthews Band to Malian kora innovator Toumani Diabaté and Indian percussion master Zakir Hussain. His collaborators have included jazz piano greats Chick Corea and McCoy Tyner, funk bass king Bootsy Collins, Grateful Dead co-founder Jerry Garcia and classical violin mainstay Joshua Bell.
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Hearing him enthusiastically describe “Vertigo’s” serpentine framework underscores a few key components of Fleck’s exceptionally far-ranging career. Music really does have healing powers!”Īs knotty in melodic and rhythmic construction as its title suggests, “Vertigo” kicks off Fleck’s first bluegrass album in 20 years. By the end of the concert, I didn’t have it anymore. “I had vertigo all the way up to when I went on stage and started to play.