Funk music is an amalgam of soul music, soul jazz, R&B, and Afro-Cuban rhythms absorbed and reconstituted in New Orleans. Like other styles of African-American musical expression including jazz, soul music and R&B, funk music accompanied many protest move

FUNK PARTY SESSION

THE BOTTLE VARIATION (GILL SCOTT HERON)

Curtis

Move on Up (Extended Version)

The Platinum Collection

Funky Street

The Best Of Herbie Hancock

Chameleon (Album Version)

Sly & The Family Stone: The Woodstock Experience

Sing A Simple Song (Live at The Woodstock Music & Art Fair, August 17, 1969)

Instant Funk

I Got My Mind Made Up (You Can Get It Girl)

Everything I Play Is Funky

Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky (From Now On)

Street Songs

Super Freak

The Very Best Of Tower Of Power: The Warner Years

Only so Much Oil in the Ground (Remastered)

The Definitive Collection

Superstition (Single Version)

Songs In The Key Of Life

Sir Duke

Absolute 70's

Theme From "Shaft"

How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days: Music From The Motion Picture

Let's Stay Together

Ultimate Isaac Hayes: Can You Dig It?

Run Fay Run

Soul Vaccination: Tower Of Power Live

Soul With A Capital 'S' (Live)

Mama's Gun

Didn't Cha Know

They Say I'm Different

Cantaloupe Island

Watermelon Man

Life Is A Song Worth Singing (Expanded Edition)

Get Up, Get Down, Get Funky, Get Loose

pianist, composer, bandleader, educator & recording artist 

John Bianculli is a lyrical and soulful pianist and composer.

John's dynamic original music is a unique blend of jazz, Latin, Brazilian, rhythm and blues, and world music. His original music can be heard on Telarc and Dream Box records. His song “Bittersweet” made the Contemporary Jazz Charts top-ten list. His music can also be heard on "Jazz Showcase," a major internationally released CD that is a compilation of Telarc's greatest jazz recordings. 

CBS recorded John’s original solo piano music and he composed the score for the film"Lit'l Boy Grown."

As pianist for international jazz recording artist Steve Nelson for over five years, and Jeanie Bryson for over 10 years, John has also worked with Cassandra Wilson, Terence Blanchard, Regina Belle, Christy Baron, 
Charlie Rouse, Bobby Watson, James Spaulding, Jimmy Ponder, 
Bill Hardman and Earl May.

A self taught, accomplished and versatile musician, John was born and raised in New York City’s Greenwich Village across from the Village Vanguard. He got much of his training playing the jazz circuit from New York to Washington D.C. 

John's compositions have been performed by his quartet, quintet and sextet in New York City at the Blue Note, Jazzmania, Jazz Cultural-Theatre, Greene Street, the Rainbow Room and Jilly's; in Washington D.C. at the One Step Down and Blues Alley.

John Bianculli has enjoyed a considerable following at the Hyatt Regency for 19 years and
the New York Hilton for 2 years. John has played numerous other clubs, concerts and
festivals in addition to a number of television and radio performances 
in the metropolitan area.

About his music, the Home News and Tribune writes, “It invokes beauty and playful fancy,
stirs the imagination, and goes straight to the heart. It is unique, lyrical, dynamic, rich, and
uplifting. . .“ The Star Ledger says “It is music that will draw you in and make you listen. . .”
