Funk Jazz is Marcus Miller, and everything he  encompasses.  Plain and simple!  I think Poogie might agree with me there.

funk-jazz is a lot like jazz-funk...

except it's played backwards.

satanically?

Funk Jazz is what you feel all around you, its what you wake up to, its what you stay up all night listening to. its what is in you, and whats around you. most of all its what you feel when you play music.

Go see Steve Coleman or Dapp Theory oh, that's Jazz Funk.  Okay, go see Bernie Worrell; it's Funk which incorporates elements of Jazz; it's the African experience in America expressed through a constantly evolving culture.

Funk Jazz is a mixture with the best of the funky music and the best of the jazz music. The result are song like "Dinner mit Joe" like  "Amos Ignored" of Dennis Chambers, like "Get in on" of Brian culbertson, like "the Urban turban" of  Victor Wooten...

It´s freedom without anarchy, it´s movement with quality.

Long life for Funk Jazz

Funk jazz is like pizza and beer.  Separate, they're both great.  Together, they're even better, because they complement each other, and the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts.

Funk jazz is evolution.  Adaptation.  Survival. 

Funk jazz is the F. in F. Lee Bailey's name.

It means new beginning....Fresh, free and cool. Funk....somethin felt or smelt good, sounded to deep to concern, the meaning of soul unearthed. Jazz.....Too much talk, in free flow sparked, by a collaboration with musicians knowing themselves and giving the instrument the play respectively a voice, mind, heart and goal.  Funk Jazz, is a spectrum, between Acid Jazz and Soul & R&B. I think, its almost fully personified by Herbie Hancock, Marcus Miller, Jaco Pastorius, and the Poogie Bell Band?

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it doesn't matter...ALL music is the blues, anyway.  all of it. 

be well

JM

Well for me funk jazz comes in a bunch of different flavors..... You have the old school stuff where jazz musicians started using funk rhythms borrowed from James Brown and Sly Stone.  Miles Davis was probably the largest catalyst for that style but they called it fusion.  You could go back a little further and check out what they called Soul Jazz which they now consider to be the foundation for Acid Jazz.  This was done by jazz artists who were feeling the funk... Folks like Grant Green, Lou Donaldson, Lonnie Smith, et. al.  George Benson came out of this school also.  Bottom line is it was all funky but they categorized it as Soul Jazz !!!  Many of the musicans carrying the torch from this style in the 70's went on to add vocals to their music.  Just listen to Donald Byrd & the Blackbyrds, Roy Ayers, early Kool & The Gang, Earth, Wind & Fire, George Duke, etc..  These bruthas were jazz trained but took it and made it commercially funky.  Some musicians stayed on the instrumental tip and created jazz music that had funk elements.  Musicans like Herbie Hancock (Headhunters), Ramsey Lewis, Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turrentine, etc. carried this torch.  The music had more of an improvisational base over a funk groove without vocals.  After this period, funk jazz kinda went into an incubation stage and birthed who I consider to be the father of funk jazz - the one and only saxophonists Grover Washington Jr..  Grover brought back the element of instrumental funky jazz and took out all of the 70's beautiful R&B based vocal stylings.  There were so many saxophonists that either wanted to go the straight ahead way route of John Coltrane or wanted to incorporate the funk jazz stylings of Grover Washington.  Without Grover you wouldn't have had many of funk jazz saxophonists that carried on the torch such as Najee, George Howard, Art Porter, Gerald Albright, Marion Meadows, Boney James, etc..  Now after the "Grover's Childeren Era" the powers that be decided to take all the funk out again and make it smooth.... lol    Go figure !!!!   So to finally answer your question --- I think funk jazz is just one evolution of the "JAZZ" spectrum.  Many of today's younger jazz players are also versed in many different musical forms - Reggae, Funk, R&B, Hip Hop, etc..  Marcus Miller is in many ways combining many different elements in his music.  It's the continuum !!!!!!           

Funky Jazz, you say....the only music worth calling music

Names, Labels, definitions, types, who, what, when,... its far simpler for me...

Funk is life!