Jim Funnell's Word Out at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 3

"This music is the singular result of a thorough reflection on rhythms, sounds, and colors."
- Guillaume Lagrée, Le jars jase jazz (Sept. 2015)

Jim Funnell perceives jazz composition and improvisation as ideal vehicles for infinite shades of emotions. As Rainer Maria Rilke wrote in his Letters to a Young Poet: "Most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered."

With his project Word Out, Jim has released two albums as a leader ("Word Out" and "Spirit of the Snail"), won the Composition Prize in 2011 at the "Trophées du Sunside" (Paris), and toured internationally, appearing at festivals and venues such as ShapeShifter Lab, Rockwood Music Hall (NY), Sunset-Sunside, Baiser Salé, Improphile, Jazz en Touraine, Turbulences #3 – Jazz à Vanves, Jazz de Mars (France), Apollo, SOMETIME Kichijōji, Royal Horse (Japan), Malta Jazz Festival......

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"This music is the singular result of a thorough reflection on rhythms, sounds, and colors."
- Guillaume Lagrée, Le jars jase jazz (Sept. 2015)

Jim Funnell perceives jazz composition and improvisation as ideal vehicles for infinite shades of emotions. As Rainer Maria Rilke wrote in his Letters to a Young Poet: "Most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered."

With his project Word Out, Jim has released two albums as a leader ("Word Out" and "Spirit of the Snail"), won the Composition Prize in 2011 at the "Trophées du Sunside" (Paris), and toured internationally, appearing at festivals and venues such as ShapeShifter Lab, Rockwood Music Hall (NY), Sunset-Sunside, Baiser Salé, Improphile, Jazz en Touraine, Turbulences #3 – Jazz à Vanves, Jazz de Mars (France), Apollo, SOMETIME Kichijōji, Royal Horse (Japan), Malta Jazz Festival...

Influenced by JoAnne Brackeen, Laszlo Gardony, Danilo Pérez, David Fiuczynski, and Joe Lovano during his studies at Berklee College of Music, Inspiration from literary sources also often pervades Jim's music (Kundera, Musil, Orwell, Saint-Exupéry, Mérimée, Sartre...)

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