Jingle All the Way (Béla Fleck and the Flecktones album)
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| Studio album by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones | ||||
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September 20, 2008 (CD) |
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| Genre | Jazz fusion, progressive bluegrass, pop, holiday music | |||
| Label | Rounder Records | |||
| Producer | Béla Fleck with the Flecktones | |||
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| Washington Post | (favorable) |
September 20, 2008 (CD)
November 4, 2008 (Vinyl)
Jingle All the Way is a Christmas album and the thirteenth album overall by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. Released in 2008 under Rounder, it marks the band's first record since their departure from Columbia. Jingle All the Way reached #1 on the Top Contemporary Jazz chart, the group's first album to do so since 1991. It also won the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album.
The band's rendition of "Sleigh Ride" was nominated for Best Country Instrumental Performance. It was performed on the December 28, 2008 edition of Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
In an interview with Billboard, Béla Fleck described the band's desire to record Christmas songs:
One of the album's most ambitious tracks, "The Twelve Days of Christmas," builds up to 12 different keys and 12 different time signatures over the course of the tune. Jingle All the Way also features a medley which fuses several Christmas classics and as Fleck described, "five or six are being played together, simultaneously." Indeed, the song includes “We Wish You a Merry Christmas,” “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,” and “My Favorite Things” and has been performed at Flecktones concerts for years prior to its 2008 studio recording. Guests on the album include Andy Statman, Edgar Meyer, and the Alash Ensemble, who specialize in Tuvan throat singing.
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