John Funkhouser Quartet at Third Life Studio

I'm very happy to present the John Funkhouser Quartet on March 11th! Pianist John Funkhouser will be joined by longtime band members Phil Sargent on guitar, Mike Connors on drums, and Greg Loughman on bass. Funkhouser takes an active interest in a wide spectrum of music, including all kinds of jazz, from avant-garde to straight ahead to New Orleans Jazz, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban music, folk music of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Africa, American popular music, including funk, rock, blues, bluegrass, and hiphop, Classical from Gregorian chant to 21st century music, Hindustani and Carnatic Classical music of India, Balinese and Javanese Gamelan, and all kinds of hybrids between these various traditions...

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I'm very happy to present the John Funkhouser Quartet on March 11th! Pianist John Funkhouser will be joined by longtime band members Phil Sargent on guitar, Mike Connors on drums, and Greg Loughman on bass. Funkhouser takes an active interest in a wide spectrum of music, including all kinds of jazz, from avant-garde to straight ahead to New Orleans Jazz, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban music, folk music of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Africa, American popular music, including funk, rock, blues, bluegrass, and hiphop, Classical from Gregorian chant to 21st century music, Hindustani and Carnatic Classical music of India, Balinese and Javanese Gamelan, and all kinds of hybrids between these various traditions. As a composer, Funkhouser draws inspiration from figures as diverse as Charles Mingus, Frank Zappa, Igor Stravinsky, and Trey Anastasio. In other words, the guy's got big ears.

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