Outbound (Béla Fleck and the Flecktones album)

Outbound
Studio album by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
Released	July 25, 2000
Genre	Jazz, jazz fusion
Label	Columbia
Producer	Béla Fleck with the Flecktones
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones chronology
Greatest Hits of the 20th Century (1999) Outbound (2000) Live at the Quick (2002)

Outbound is the eighth album by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, released in 2000. It is the band's first album on the Sony/Columbia label. The album won Best Contemporary Jazz Album at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards.

Special guests include Jon Anderson, Adrian Belew, Sandip Burman, Shawn Colvin and Edgar Meyer.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

In his Allmusic review, music critic William Ruhlman wrote "Fleck and his bandmates seem to view all styles of music as readily and randomly interchangeable, but sometimes, as with a colorblind person picking out clothes, the results clash or otherwise disturb, and the rest of the time they come off as flashy and insubstantial. Fleck really offers no defense to the charge of being a musical dilettante, he simply celebrates the surface pleasures of different varieties of music, offering an overlapping series of appetizers. A fan of any particular style is liable to feel that it has been trivialized, but Fleck doesn't mean any harm. His music represents the pursuit of facileness as a musical goal, one that he and his band achieve with alacrity."^[1]

Track listing

All songs by Béla Fleck unless otherwise noted.

1. "Intro" – 0:41
2. "Hoedown" (Aaron Copland) – 4:54
3. "A Moment So Close" – 4:47
4. "Zona Mona" (Fleck, Jeff Coffin) – 5:01
5. "Hall Of Mirrors" – 4:54
6. "Earth Jam" (Fleck, Future Man, Victor Wooten) – 5:55
7. "Something She Said" – 3:36
8. "Ovombo Summit" (Future Man) – 0:40
9. "Aimum" (Fleck, Future Man, Wooten, Coffin) – 5:50
10. "Prelude" – 0:41
11. "Lover's Leap" – 4:16
12. "Outbound" – 4:52
13. "Scratch & Sniff" (Fleck, Wooten)– 5:00
14. "Shuba Yatra" – 4:42
15. "That Old Thing" – 3:21
16. "Reprise" – 0:44

Personnel

The Flecktones

• Béla Fleck – banjo, guitar, sitar banjo, National Steel guitar
• Jeff Coffin – clarinet, alto flute, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Future Man – synth-axe drumitar, acoustic percussion
• Victor Wooten – electric bass

Guest artists

• Jon Anderson – vocals
• David Angell – violin
• Adrian Belew – electric guitar
• Sandip Burman – tabla
• John Catchings – cello
• Shawn Colvin – vocals
• David Davidson – violin
• Paul Hanson – bassoon, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Paul McCandless – English horn, oboe, soprano saxophone, pennywhistle
• John Medeski – organ
• Edgar Meyer – string bass
• Andy Narell – steelpans
• Kongar-ol Ondar – Tuvan throat singing

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Ruhlman, William. "Outbound > Review". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r491725. Retrieved August 3, 2011.