Chronology

1996

Live Art, released, a double live album.
Tabula Rasa released, with Bela, Jie-Bing Chen, V.M. Bhatt, Rony Majumdar, Poovalur Srinivasan and Sangeeta Shankar.
Curandero released, by Aras with Kai Eckhardt and Bela.

1995

Tales From The Acoustic Planet released, a solo project featuring Chick Corea, Sam Bush, Bruce Hornsby, Edgar Meyer, Branford Marsalis, Jerry Douglas, Paul McCandless, Tony Rice and others.

1993

Three Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest released, the fourth Flecktones album.

1992

Howard Levy leaves Bela Fleck And The Flecktones.
UFO TOFU released, the third Flecktones album (and the last with Howard).
Solo Banjo Works released with Tony Trischka, an album of unaccompanied banjo.

1991

Flight Of The Cosmic Hippo released, the second Flecktones album.

1990

Bela Fleck And The Flecktones released, the first Flecktones album.

1989

Newgrass Revival Split!
The Telluride Sessions released - Bela with Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Edgar Meyer and Mark O'Connor, calling themselves Strength In Numbers.

1988

Drive released, a solo project featuring Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Mark O'Connor, Tony Rice and Mark Schatz.
Places released, a compilation featuring selections from Deviation, Snakes Alive, Double Time and Inroads.

Daybreak released, a compilation featuring selections from Crossing The Tracks, Fiddle Tunes For Banjo, Anchored To The Shore and Natural Bridge Suite.

1986

Inroads released, a solo project featuring Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Pat Flynn, Kirby Shelstad, Mark O'Connor, John Cowan, Timothy Britton, Edgar Meyer and others.

1984

Double Time released, a series of duets between Bela and other musical greats such as David Grisman, Mark O'Connor and Tony Rice.

Deviation released, a heavily rock- and jazz-influenced album featuring Sam Bush, John Cowan, Pat Flynn, Mark O'Connor and others.

1982

Natural Bridge Suite released, a new acoustic music album featuring Mark O'Connor, David Grisman, Mike Marshall and Sam Bush.

1981

Fiddle Tunes For Banjo released with Tony Trischka and Bill Keith, an album of traditional fiddle tunes played on the 5-string banjo featuring Russ Barenberg, Andy Statman, Sam Bush and Darol Anger.

1979

Crossing The Tracks released, Bela's first solo album featuring Pat Enright, Sam Bush, and Mark O'Connor.