Chick Corea started the night by listing the audience rights. As artists, he noted, he and Bela Fleck have their rights. "We do whatever we want," he shrugged. "If you need to make or receive and cell ...

At first glance, pianist Chick Corea and banjo player Bela Fleck don’t seem to have much in common. They come from different generations. Their respective musical approaches – jazz and bluegrass – ...

Gabriel Kahane '03 is ambivalent about the banjo. "I'm just a dilettante," he said ruefully, "Although a banjo definitely has the element of surprise." But this was an understatement. In addition to ...

Few musicians are as versatile as banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck: he has been nominated for Grammy awards in more categories than any other instrumentalist. Quite a lot of his work files comfortably in the ...

Kurt Vile has been hard at work on the follow-up to 2013’s stoner-dad casual epic Wakin On A Pretty Daze, and he offered Spin an update. Among the revelations: Vile and bandmate Rob Laakso are ...

Chick Corea is up for anything. That’s the way the jazz icon has been since his career commenced 53 years ago. “I love doing different things,” Corea said from Albuquerque. “That’s how it’s been for ...