THE ENCHANTMENT - CHICK COREA & BELA FLECK
Though they’ve collaborated previously, pianist Corea and banjo wiz Fleck conjure their first full-length album with “The Enchantment.” Any jazz fan who doubts a piano/banjo duet can make beautiful music will experience an attitude adjustment while listening to this stellar disc. Corea and Fleck are not just virtuosos on their respective instruments, they are simpatico virtuosos. The 11 tracks offered here include Corea getting mighty comfortable with Fleck’s twang-rich tune “Mountain,” Fleck picking beautifully on Corea’s “Joban Dna Nopia” and both of them playing with tremendous intuition and wit on Barroso and Russell’s “Brazil.” There are no more likely suspects to pull off such a stunning piano/banjo dance than these two. Both are masterful players possessed of restless genius, and, yet again, they’ve found an imaginative way to put a buzz in their music.(Concord Records) Billboard
