A Musical Consumer Review
January 27, 2007, Saturday night. Herman's Hideaway
This was my first experience with a musical hurricane. To say this band blew my hair back is a gross understatement.
This band is in a class way above the first three acts I saw that night. It is a collection of seven highly skilled, well-seasoned
performers who express a diversity of style and musical genre unmatched by anyone the duck has ever seen before.
I believe these folks do Old School Funk as it is SUPPOSED to be done. Their delivery of a groove is the groove I've always looked
for, but few musicians could quite produce. The "Jazz" on the end of their name must not be taken lightly
Interspersed with the thumb-slap-funk bass lines were intricate morsels of what some of us call Real Jazz.
The horns in this band teased me mercilessly with deep statements of the heritage of Jazz and Soul.
Snippets of "oh, my, what was THAT?" tickled my innards in ways so good it was almost embarrassing . Combine
the Funk, Jazz and Soul with a generous dollop of high humor and stage presence and you do indeed have a
musical hurricane that took me places I've always longed to go. BUCKNER FUNKEN JAZZ is on the same bill
as the Neville Brothers on March 3rd at a DCPA benefit for performing arts education. The Neville Brothers
and the Denver Center's Arts in Education program never had it so good!. It has been a long time since
I experienced gem-quality funk and soul.
BUCKNER FUNKEN JAZZ delivers! They have just released a new CD, and based on Saturday's performance it is a Must Buy!
This duck went home to the nest with her funky musical feathers well puffed.