Bela Fleck is one of the greatest musicians in the world. He's been nominated for 35 grammy awards in 12 different catagories.

What I love about this composition is the part right after the bass sax duel, when Victor plucked in a tribute to Jaco Pastorius, the first guy to take the bass to the level of a solo instrument...

As others have mentioned, that's a bassoon. The guy playing it is Paul Hanson. I've run into him live a couple of times with the Flecktones or with Taylor Eigsti, and I have of all things an autographed stuffed hippo on my desk with the Flecktones' and his signatures on it from a show 20 years ago. At one of the Taylor Eigsti shows, he dropped a ~10-minute bassoon solo that had every single person there, on stage or in the audience, in complete awe. I don't know if there are other jazz bassoonists out there but there can't be many!

Masters!! that instrument is a Bassoon! A very bass horn!!

Bela Fleck and his band. HIGHLY talented! Once you hear them you can't help but want more. MORE!

There is a guy in a blue hat way off in the stage left corner. That's Future Man, the brother of the bass player, Victor Wooten. The snare drum and other percussion you are hearing are from him. He usually plays the Drumotar, an electric guitar modified to play various percussion and other sounds. I was looking for him through the whole video but they didn't show him until near the end.

Add Stomping Grounds to this list of Bela Fleck and the Fleccktones that is a great tune ass well!!!

If you liked that from Bella Fleck, you should check out his song Cheeseballs in Cowtown with Sam Bush and Jerry Douglas. Bela is a virtuoso, multi instrumentalist, but his primary love is Banjo. What you saw him playing in that video is an electric banjo. Sam Bush is one of the best Mandolin players in the planet and same goes for Jerry Douglas on his Dobro. Vic Wooten is an incredible bassist and his brother Future Man invented his instrument called a Drumitar, it has hundreds of not thousands of different percussion sounds and others sounds as well, all by touching, or tapping spots on the instrument.

And just so everyone knows, that Victor Wooten and Jeff Coffin on the same stage, my friends. Two bests ever

I'm so glad to see people reacting to the flecktones!! I've been a fan since I was fifteen years old(20 years ago) and had my brain exploded by their unbelievable playing. If you want hear genuine God level musicianship, I recommend the song Shocktime. It is truly incredible. The rest of the Live at the Quick show is amazing too.

Bela Fleck and The New Grass Revival was there name's way back in the day.

OMG ! I subscribed for Pentatonix and saw this today. When I was working in Houston in the late 80's I had a co-worker who had been a Deadhead in college and used to follow the Dead making and trading bootleg tapes of the live shows. When the Dead stopped touring much he found other groups with a similar vibe, including Bela Fleck and the Flecktones and Dave Grisman's various Dawg Music projects -- groups that played instruments really well, improvised a lot and never played a song the same way twice. I went with him to a small club in Houston when the Flecktones came through (it was just Bela and the Wooten brothers with a guest English horn player). I followed them for years but I thought the Flecktones broke up and Bela was doing more traditional bluegrass. I guess I was wrong.

@martyjansing2675

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Ruth, Bela was among a fairly large community of players that are/ were over the TOP. This got going really fast when Bela joined New Grass Revival in the early 1980's. Now New Grass Revival was formed in the early 1970's. They played with others too. Like Leon Russell for several years and toured with the Grateful Dead. Anyway pull up Strength In Numbers from the Lonesome Pine Specials Series. It's on KZread. Also check out Cosmic Hippo that I posted above.

The GOATs.

Simply put. The Flecktones are not of this earth. True musicianship at its finest!!!

Love Bela, but love Victor so much more. Roy ‘future man’ Wooten, Victor’s brother is a percussion genius… love the guy.

Suzie and travis, love your reactions. Very refreshing and very chill, respectful, and soothing! Love that you liked my favorite band and artists!!!! Means so much to me. Thank you

Nice to C Yawl. Thanks for the upload. Cuz that’s cool.

When people say "Tell me about yourself!" I say, "Listen to Dave Matthews Band and Bela Fleck and the Flecktones and THE Victor Wooten"

The long red instrument is a bassoon.

I've only seen Bela live once, with Oumou Sangare and her band. That was the MOST amazing experience.

Check out...Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.....Sinister Minister

Love this group & Jazz / Blue Grass

Nice reaction 👍

It's call the bassoon

You guys should check out SHOWDOWN AT TH HOEDOWN

Bahut achcha,,, Sundar.

just pro

Billy Strings is your next ...

Pretty sure it's a bassoon.

@Bear78420

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Or an obo(same family of instruments n not sure I spelled it right)

Victor Wooten is about as good as it gets on Bass