Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - Flight of the Cosmic Hippo (Cobalt Blue Vinyl)

How many albums virtually upend a genre? And how many erstwhile bluegrass bands top a contemporary jazz chart?!The answer to these questions, is, one, very few, and two, only B�la Fleck & the Flecktones! Their second album, 1991's fancifully entitled Flight of the Cosmic Hippo, did indeed top Billboard's contemporary jazz albums chart and scored a couple of Grammy noms. But more importantly, this record really made explicit the Flecktones' bebop leanings, as they devised the term Blu-Bop to describe their unique fusion of bluegrass and jazz. Stylistic whiplash has never felt so good or sounded so sweet; check out their warm, instrumental wizardry on chestnuts like Michelle and The Star Spangled Banner�and don'tmiss B�la's banjo power chords on Turtle Rock! We had Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision remaster this classic for vinyl for maximum fidelity, and gave it a repress in cobalt blue vinyl limited to just 900 copies. Essential!