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John Funkhouser Quartet at Amazing Things Arts Center

Courtesy of Amazing Things Art Center | Posted on January 9, 2017

Where

Amazing Things Arts Center
160 Hollis St.
Framingham, MA
Map
508-405-2787

When

Sat, January 28, 2017
8:00 pm

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Musicians

About

“Complex rhythms, deep soulful moments, rock and passion and sensitivity” is how Bebop Spoken Here describes The John Funkhouser Quartet. With influences as wide ranging as Woody Guthrie, Thelonious Monk, Frank Zappa, Frederic Chopin, Ravi Shankar, and Abdullah Ibrahim, the Quartet is a band of Musicians without Borders. Funkhouser’s latest compositions flow from a new influence – his 2016 tour of South Africa. Each of Funkhouser’s expansive compositions inhabits a unique universe, while the band seamlessly integrates composed music with improvisation into what Bop-n-Jazz.com describes as “a whirling dervish of sound and light”....

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