Chick Corea/Bela Fleck; Robert Glasper | Jazz review

London jazz festivalChick Corea is used to being a hard act to follow, but not when he shares a double-bill with Bela Fleck. Banjo master Fleck, who joins bluegrass conviviality to a jazz-improv guitar-like sound, led the original lineup of his 20-year-old Flecktones on Sunday afternoon, rejoined by the bebop harmonica-player and pianist Howard Levy. The band's driving country-fusion and flat-out virtuosity (from all four members, but most spectacularly from bass guitarist Victor Wooten) brought...

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