FLECK, BELA
(*1953)
FLECK, BELA (b. B. Anton Leos F., New York City, July 10, 1953) A progressive BANJO player closely associated with his onetime teacher TONY TRISCHKA , Fleck has had a career moving from progressive BLUEGRASS to bebop-flavored jazz to an amalgam of funk and jazz with his group, The Flecktones . Fleck's playing is very much in the style of Tony Trischka in its explorations of the outer limits of five-string banjo technique. Unlike Trischka he uses silence as a suggestive element in his music…