He describes his musical style as "Blufunk", which is a fusion between raw blues elements and hard, edgy funk rhythms.

The extravagant funk rhythms on "Free for All," the set's closer, clobbered the audience.

Not much has changed since then: he's still playing blues - most of which tell a story -and he's kept the funk rhythms in his formula.

Apart from the funk rhythms in gospel music, he was working out jazz technique and questioning it as well.

Their music combined funk rhythms and dissonant guitar riffs.

Then the orchestra created a wave of romantic, major-key playing; next a funk rhythm began, with strings accenting each beat.

Theirs was a short, hypertense set, with only a few flat-out runways of funk rhythms in the songs to make the crowd move.

You don't find many gospel albums like this; it's like a contemplative recital, with funk rhythm.

Another insists that electronic instruments and more recent funk rhythms should be incorporated in a contemporary jazz vocabulary.

But laid over the graceful funk rhythms he's been using for so long, the tunes get their flesh and substance.