Béla Fleck Remembrance

Remembrance, a new double album out May 10, serves as a moving final document of the profound creative and personal rapport that banjoist Béla Fleck and pianist Chick Corea first showcased at album length with 2007’s Latin Grammy-winning The Enchantment. It’s also a crucial addendum to Corea’s legacy, featuring three previously unreleased Corea compositions as well as five short free improvisations, or impromptus, that Fleck has infused with written music. “We pushed this duo to a new place before we ran out of time,” says Fleck, who produced Remembrance. “We have here another cool look at Chick Corea, at the different ways that he can play that we wouldn’t have had. There’s a lot of great Chick Corea out there, and this is different.”

1The Otter Creek Incident2impromptu III: march hare3Enut Nital4impromptu II: mock turtle5Bemsha Swing6Lucky Bounce7impromptu I: cheshire8Remembrance9Juno10Scarlatti Sonatas11impromptu V: jabberwocky12Small Potatoes13Continuance14impromptu IV: gentleman fish