Jim Funnell Quartet at Areté Venue And Gallery

About

Jim Funnell perceives jazz composition and improvisation as ideal vehicles for infinite shades of emotion. Inspiration from literary sources (Sartre, Mérimée, Kundera...) often pervade his music, and the influence of jazz piano greats such as Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans, and Thelonious Monk, led him to support his own vivid palette of tones and rhythms with a format of choice: the classic piano trio, augmented with percussion on this occasion. Since graduating from Berklee College of Music (where he studied on a full tuition scholarship under JoAnne Brackeen, Laszlo Gardony, Danilo Pérez, David Fiuczynski, Joe Lovano…), Jim has released two albums (Word Out and Spirit of the Snail) and won the Composition Prize at the “Trophées du Sunside” in Paris.