Flight of the Cosmic Hippo

Flight of the Cosmic Hippo was the second album released by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, released in 1991. It reached number 1 on the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart. The album title came from an audience member who suggested "Flight of the Codeine Hippo" as a name for the title track. The band changed "codeine" to "cosmic" to avoid the drug association.

Release Date:

  • Jun 11, 1991

Running Time:

  • 44 min 4 s

Genre:

Musical Album

Artist

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones is a multi-Grammy winning, primarily instrumental group from the United States, that draws equally on bluegrass, fusion and jazz, sometimes dubbed "blu-bop". The band formed in 1988, initially to perform once on the PBS series Lonesome Pine Specials. The Flecktones...

Label

Warner Bros. Entertainment

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. (also known as Warner Bros. Pictures, or simply Warner Bros.—the shortened form of the former official, sometimes still used,...

Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is also affectionately known as...
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