Live Art by Bela Fleck & The Flecktones

Pros: Music created out of love, experience, virtuosity, and technical wizardry

Cons: FutureMan's synthaxe drum system keeps it a bit on the smooth-jazz side

The Bottom Line: A wonder to the amateur and refined ear alike. A group that came out of nowhere to bring jazz a new fusion of love for music and for life.

Review: Jazz has been known for being a genre that's impossible to pin down to any one sound, which is most recently due to its obsessive fusions with rock, folk, and world music styles. These fusions keep jazz anchored in a listenable, popular realm....

Pros: Original, Beautiful work of art, Intavative and free style.

Cons: Not like the classic jazz form.

The Bottom Line: Buy the album, it is some on the best music around today.

Review: The combination of banjo, bass, sax, and drums, blend and mix to form man array of not only beautiful music, but a mood of relaxation yet alertness. The progression of solo's is not the classic style of original jazz, yet Bela Fleck blends the...