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''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.〔( Artist Chart History - Béla Fleck ) ''Billboard''. Retrieved on 2-18-09.〕 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''. ==Overview== In an interview with ''Billboard'', Béla Fleck described the band's desire to record Christmas songs: :"We've always wanted to do an album like this. . . This year we started to do less touring, and we didn't want to tour without some new music. It was a slow, steady project. A lot of the arrangements were worked out on tour." 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.〔Ayers, Michael D. (Flecktones Set To 'Jingle' This Fall ) ''Billboard'' (August 28, 2008). Retrieved on 2-18-09.〕 Fleck also described to ''The Washington Post'', who named the band Editors' Pick in December 2008, how the Flecktones wanted to avoid holiday music clichés: :"I didn't want to go the route of getting super-famous guests because that could lead to cheese. That suggestion came up: 'Why don't you make a Christmas record with Tony Bennett, Willie Nelson, and Sting with you guys as the backing band?' We're not a backing band. We'd rather go down in obscurity than to be famous for something we're not." He went on to describe how, while much of the Flecktones' music is complex and not easily digestible to some music fans, "Christmas music is inside everyone's DNA" and that it creates a doorway for them to understand the Flecktones' unique music.〔 A U.S. tour intended to highlight much of the ''Jingle All The Way'' material began November 15, 2008 in Spokane, Washington and concluded with a four-night run at the Blue Note in New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jingle All the Way (Béla Fleck and the Flecktones album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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