Béla Fleck & The Flecktones Flight of the Cosmic Hippo Vinyl

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Béla Fleck & The Flecktones Flight of the Cosmic Hippo VinylHow 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 Bla Fleck & the Flecktones! Their second album, 1991s fancifully entitled Flight of the Cosmic Hippo, did indeed top Billboards contemporary jazz albums chart and scored a couple of Grammy noms. But more importantly, this record really made explicit the Flecktones bebop

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