Critics Week: The Worst of 2008
Soundcheck has spent all week honoring the best music of 2008 - now, we call out the worst. Chicago Sun-Times music critic Jim DeRogatis dishes on the most unlistenable and overrated albums of the...
View ArticleBéla Fleck and the Flecktones
Sick of holiday music? Not if Béla Fleck can help it. On the new CD "Jingle All the Way," the world's premier banjo player freshens up "Jingle Bells" with Tuvan throat singers, bends "Silent Night"...
View ArticleGuest Picks: Béla Fleck
Grammy Award-winning banjo player Béla Fleck performed live on the Leonard Lopate Show recently. He also revealed that he's a Barbra Streisand fan. Find out what else Béla Fleck's a fan of!What have...
View ArticleBéla Fleck And Brooklyn Rider: An Adventurous Collaboration
Béla Fleck has become a household name by reinventing the banjo for contemporary music with globetrotting compositions spanning from bluegrass to classical to pop, and along the way he's picked up 14...
View ArticleBéla Fleck Interprets 'Rhapsody In Blue' on Composition's 100th Anniversary
The chameleonic banjo player Béla Fleck has a new album commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue," which features new bluegrass and blues-influenced versions...
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