Remembrance

"These last recordings from the amazing collaboration between the legendary pianist and the much lauded banjo player serve as an admirable coda to the partnership that led to a tour and album 'The Enchantment' way back in 2007. The music on 'Remembrance' was recorded both live in concert, during the duo's final tour dates in 2019, and via traded sound files, in the midst of the Covid pandemic - and shows a lively and imaginative interplay through mostly improvised pieces".

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"Corea's never-previously-released pieces "Enut Nital" ("Latin tune" backwards) and "Continuance" are garrulously conversational groovers and gracefully waltzing sways respectively, Fleck's "The Otter Creek Incident" is an eager country-jive that turns bluesily funky ... Monk's "Bemsha Swing" is an absolute barnstormer of blistering improv counterpoint in the head, turning to hurtling swing-comping and solo-swapping as it unfolds. Scarlatti gets a cameo role in some deliciously interwoven baroque pirou-ettes, and Fleck's jagged, zigzaggy "Small Potatoes" hints at the sonically exploratory free-playing ingenuity Corea touched on with 1970-71's Circle, but which his mainstream acclaim never opened a path back to. Touching on all that ground, Béla Fleck's Remembrance is a unique document".

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