Jazz Articles about Jim Funnell

About Jim Funnell

Radio & Podcasts

New music from Yellow Jackets, Jim Funnels Word Out and Bass Extremes 2

by Len Davis
September 18, 2022

New Music from Yellow Jackets, Jim Funnel, and Bass Extremes, plus Miles Davis. Raoul Bjorkenheim-Bill Laswell-Morgran Agren. Cindy Blackman Santana with Velocity and Gary Husband with The Trackers. Playlist Yellow Jackets “Onyx Manor" from Parallel Motion (Mack Avenue) 00:00 Hakan Basar “Hub Art" from On Top Of The Roof (Ubuntu) 06:32 Miles Davis “Hopscotch" from Bootleg Vol 7 (Sony) 13:00 Jim Funnel “Bitcorn Soup" from Bitcorn Soup (Self Produced) 19:29 Raoul Bjorkenheim-Bill Laswell-Morgan Agren “Tools" from Blixt (Cuneiform) ...

Multiple Reviews

3x3: Piano Trios: October 2021

by Geno Thackara
October 11, 2021

It's a pretty worldly mix of trios here. While the instrumental setup is familiar as ever, these are players always happy to take it out of jazz land and wander anywhere else they wish. Jim Funnell's Word Out! Live in Japan Self Produced 2021 While Jim Funnell isn't notably prolific, he makes a convincing case for quality over quantity. A lot of living goes into making each of his works -besides absorbing ideas ...

Album Review

AfuriKo: Tao

by Geno Thackara
July 6, 2019

On first impression, AfuriKo seems to sit somewhere between groovy Miles Davis circa Big Fun (Columbia, 1974) and the electric '70s fusion of, say, Joe Zawinul or Jeff Beck. You have the deep rhythms, world- spanning percussion and any tone an electric piano can make. The name is a portmanteau combining the Japanese terms for “child" and “Africa," while the approach to music is rooted in that continent's griot traditions of conveying stories and experiences in song. Akiko ...