Outbound(Béla Fleck and the Flecktones album)

Outboundis the eighth album byBéla Fleck and the Flecktones,released in 2000. It is the band's first album on the Sony/Columbia label. The album wonBest Contemporary Jazz Albumat the43rd Annual Grammy Awards.

Outbound
Studio albumby Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
Released	July 25, 2000
Genre	Jazz fusion,folk rock,world fusion
Length	59:54
Label	Columbia
Producer	Béla Fleckwith the Flecktones
Béla Fleck and the Flecktoneschronology
Greatest Hits of the 20th Century (1999) Outbound (2000) Live at the Quick (2002)

Special guests includeJon Anderson,Adrian Belew,Sandip Burman,Shawn ColvinandEdgar Meyer.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic

In hisAllmusicreview, music critic William Ruhlman wrote "Fleck and his bandmates seem to view all styles of music as readily and randomly interchangeable, but sometimes, as with a colorblind person picking out clothes, the results clash or otherwise disturb, and the rest of the time they come off as flashy and insubstantial. Fleck really offers no defense to the charge of being a musical dilettante, he simply celebrates the surface pleasures of different varieties of music, offering an overlapping series of appetizers. A fan of any particular style is liable to feel that it has been trivialized, but Fleck doesn't mean any harm. His music represents the pursuit of facileness as a musical goal, one that he and his band achieve with alacrity."

Track listing

All songs byBéla Fleckunless otherwise noted.

1. "Intro" – 0:41
2. "Hoedown" (Aaron Copland) – 4:54
3. "A Moment So Close" – 4:47
4. "Zona Mona" (Fleck,Jeff Coffin) – 5:01
5. "Hall Of Mirrors" – 4:54
6. "Earth Jam" (Fleck,Future Man,Victor Wooten) – 5:55
7. "Something She Said" – 3:36
8. "Ovombo Summit" (Future Man) – 0:40
9. "Aimum" (The Flecktones) – 5:50
10. "Prelude" – 0:41
11. "Lover's Leap" – 4:16
12. "Outbound" – 4:52
13. "Scratch & Sniff" (Fleck, Victor Wooten)– 5:00
14. "Shuba Yatra" – 4:42
15. "That Old Thing" – 3:21
16. "Reprise" – 0:44

Personnel

The Flecktones

• Béla Fleck– Gibson-style 75banjo(track 4, 5, 9, 13, 15), Gibson-style 18 acoustic banjo (track 2), gut string banjo (track 11), Deering Crossfire electric banjo (tracks 2, 6, 12), Nechvilleelectric sitarbanjo (track 14), synth (tracks 5, 6, 13), Nationalsteel guitar(tracks 7, 16), Paradis stereoguitarwith VG8 (track 3)
• Jeff Coffin– Tenor saxophone (tracks 2-4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13),soprano saxophone(4, 5, 12, 14, 15),alto saxophone(tracks 1, 6), alto flute (tracks 7, 9, 14, 16),clarinet(track 11)
• Future Man–Synth-AxeDrumitar(tracks 2-7, 9, 11-15), acousticpercussion(tracks 4, 7, 12, 13, 15), X-Drum acoustickick drum(tracks 11, 14),Zendrum(track 8),Peartallcajons(track 8),RolandS-760samplers(track 8),vocals(track 3, 8)
• Victor Wooten– Fodera 4 stringbass(tracks 2, 3, 6, 9, 11-13, 15), Foderatenor bass(track 2), stereo effect (tracks 2, 12), Compito 5 stringfretless bass(tracks 4, 5, 7, 14), vocals (track 6)

Guest artists

• Jon Anderson–vocals(tracks 3, 9)
• David Angell –violin(tracks 2-4, 11, 13)
• Adrian Belew–electric guitar(tracks 5, 7, 9)
• Sandip Burman–tabla(tracks 2, 3, 6, 9, 14)
• John Catchings –cello(tracks 2-4, 11, 13)
• Shawn Colvin– vocals (tracks 3, 5, 7, 9)
• David Davidson– violin (tracks 2-4, 11, 13)
• Mark Feldman- violin (track 6)
• Paul Hanson–bassoon(tracks 2, 3, 5, 13, 15),harmonizer(track 2),synthesizer(track 13), tenor saxophone (track 1)
• Paul McCandless– soprano saxophone (tracks 1, 3, 4),penny whistle(track 2),oboe(track 5),English horn(track 7)
• John Medeski–Hammond B-3 organ(tracks 5, 8, 9, 12)
• Edgar Meyer– arco (tracks 14, 15) and pizzicato (tracks 15)acoustic basses
• Andy Narell–steelpans(tracks 10-14)
• Kongar-ol Ondar–Tuvan throat singing(track 3)
• Rita Sahai - vocals (tracks 3, 11, 14, 16)
• Kristin Wilkinson -viola(tracks 2-4, 11, 13)

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
2000	BillboardTop Contemporary Jazz Albums	3