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Tickets available at the door - Johnathan Scales Fourchestra w/s/g David Fiuczynski"s Kif
Johnathan Scales Fourchestra w/s/g David Fiuczynski"s Kif make there forst visit to The Acoustic.
This is a music lovers dream show!!!!
Doors 7pm
Music 8pm
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Jonathan Scales is likely the most innovative steel drummer on the planet. His stunning, virtuosic technique is obvious and apparent to any who have seen him perform, but it is his mesmerizing compositions and tasteful, avant-garde improvisation that set him apart from the pack. Scales unmistakably unique approach to an instrument often associated with cruise ships and tropicalia establishes him as something of an outlier. Whereas his talent and creativity could have been focused on other instruments he plays, such as saxophone, he fell in love with the sound of the steel pans. He may also have unconsciously seen it as a challenge to transform the instrument in much the same way that his musical inspiration Bela Fleck did with the banjo. In fact, Driftwood Magazine made a similar observation, when it wrote that Scales is to steel pans what Béla Fleck is to the banjoan über innovator. Pan On The Net, a blog dedicated to the global steel drum community, echoes the sentiment in its description of the modest Asheville, NC based composer as having a Thelonius Monk-like attitude with a Mozart creativity.
Jonathan Scales Fourchestra has a fluid line-up, allowing Jonathan to work with a wide range of artists, and in the past few years he has earned the respect of some of the most impressive players across multiple genres. The Fourchestras November 2016 tour of the Southeast is a prime example of this, showcasing bass wizard MonoNeon (Prince), drummer Robert Sput Searight (Snarky Puppy) and percussionist Weedie Braimah (The Nth Power). As with the tours, Scales recordings have also featured special guest performances from the likes of Victor Wooten, Howard Levy, Jeff Coffin and Kofi Burbridge. The Fourchestras self-titled 2013 debut album on Ropeadope Records, fully orchestrated with horns and strings, was a follow-up to the trios three independent releases, and the follow-up Mixtape Symphony (Ropeadope), a dense, half-hour, long-form album inspired by and dedicated to Roy Futureman Wooten peaked at #6 on the iTunes Jazz charts. Bringing the relationship full circle, Jonathan had the opportunity to perform with Bela Fleck and The Flecktones in Richmond, VA in June of 2016 a dream come true for the kid who used to wait outside venues for a chance to talk to his muse. Bela Fleck himself, in considering Scales cover of his composition The Imposter, remarked To say I am impressed would be a gross understatement.
David Fuze Fiuczynski is an iconoclastic innovator and a rebel with a guitar. Fluent in funk, rock, fusion, wicked fretless blues slides, Eastern melodicism, Western microtonalism and everything in-between, his remarkably open-minded and versatile approach to his instrument and music in general has made him a first call player, and lead to tours and recording projects with a remarkably diverse cast of characters, including Stewart Copeland (The Police), Jack DeJohnette (Miles Davis, John Coltrane), John Zorn, Hiromi, JoJo Mayer, Marc Guiliana (David Bowie), Bernie Worrell (P-Funk), Dennis Chambers, Meshell NdegeOcello, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Marcus Miller, Billy Hart, John Medeski, Cuong Vu, Ronald Shannon Jacksons Decoding Society and countless others. He has played on nearly 100 recordings as a session musician, band leader or band member, won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 and is a professor at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. Best known as the leader of the Screaming Headless Torsos, KiF and as a member of Hasidic New Wave, Fuze launched Planet MicroJam, an institute that explores the use of microtones in groove, jazz, ethnic, folk and other contexts, in 2012. With this impressive resume under his belt, the mad-scientist guitar hero is now seeking to bring his music to new audiences.
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LocationThe Acoustic (View)
2926 Fairfield Avenue
Bridgeport, CT 06605
United States
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