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Jonathan Scales Fourchestra featuring: Robert “Sput” Searight of Snarky Puppy, MonoNeon of Prince, and Weedie Braimah of The Nth Power with very special guests The Funky Knuckles
- Date:
- Sunday, November 20, 2016
- Time:
- 9:00PM
- Venue:
- The Main Stage
- Price:
- $15 Advance / $18 Day of Show
- Status:
- Tickets on Sale Now
- Details:
- General Admission Standing Show :: Some Balcony Seating
Jonathan Scales Fourchestra explodes onto stages with an indescribable sound that is as much felt as it is heard: “a Thelonius Monk-like attitude with a Mozart creativity” (Pan on the Net).
Jonathan Scales Fourchestra · 10PM
Jonathan Scales Fourchestra explodes onto stages with an indescribable sound that is as much felt as it is heard: “a Thelonius Monk-like attitude with a Mozart creativity” (Pan on the Net).
Weaving together collective and individual influences without compromise, they are as much themselves as they are a unit—a crucial trait of landmark instrumental ensembles. At center stage, steel pannist and founder Jonathan Scales’ compositional skill mixes with tasteful, avant-garde improvisations to form an unmistakably unique approach to an instrument often associated with cruise ships and tropical music. Driftwood Magazine says: “Scales is to steel pans ….what Béla Fleck is to the banjo—an über innovator.”
Jonathan Scales Fourchestra’s self-titled 2013 debut album on Ropeadope Records featured guest collaborators Victor Wooten and Howard Levy of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones and is fully orchestrated with horns and strings. In 2014, the Fourchestra released Mixtape Symphony (Ropeadope), a dense, half-hour long-form album inspired by and dedicated to Roy “Futureman” Wooten, which peaked at #6 on the iTunes Jazz charts. Wooten and other Flecktones members occasionally perform with the Fourchestra, bringing the relationship full-circle.
With a successful European tour in the Fall of 2015 under their belts and the prestigious North Sea Jazz Festival confirmed for 2016, fans, critics and promoters alike anticipate the Fourchestra’s arrival on big North American jazz festival stages in the near future. In the meantime, Scales and his band continue to tour the North American club circuit, building an audience one awed, mouth agape fan at a time…
The Funky Knuckles · 9PM
http://www.thefunkyknuckles.com/
The inevitable result of a talent-soaked soul and jazz community, The Funky Knuckles are taking the sound of Dallas to an entirely different level. They have been together six years and have held a weekly residency since the beginning. The band is comprised of sidemen from some of the most respected acts in the music industry (Beyonce, Erykah Badu, Chrisette Michelle, Talib Kweli, P. Diddy, The Polyphonic Spree, etc.), yet possesses a sound distinctly separate from any of their individual projects.
The Funky Knuckles move together musically as a school of fish, never complacent and always stretching the boundaries of improvisation and composition. Whether performing original music or standards, they draw from each member’s musical experiences to create their unique genre-bending sound. After the release of their debut album on GroundUP Music, As of Lately, The Knuckles added a full-time horn section and began touring nationally.
Meta-Musica (also on GroundUP), climbed the iTunes Jazz Charts to become the #1 selling record in the United States the day it was released.
