Jim Mullen
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Jim Mullen (born November 26, 1945) is a Glasgow-born jazz guitarist with a distinctive style, picking with the thumb rather than a plectrum.
After playing with Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, and appearing on the band's first three albums together with future Average White Band drummer Robbie MacIntosh, Mullen joined Kokomo and later toured with the Average White Band.
It was while touring the U.S. with AWB in the mid-70s that Mullen met up with tenor saxophone player Dick Morrissey, and throughout the 1980s, he found considerable acclaim as joint leader of the pioneering British jazz funk band Morrissey - Mullen.
Mullen has also played and recorded with, among others, Mose Allison (The Mose chronicles: live in London, vol. 2 - Blue Note), Hamish Stuart (ex-Average White Band), Tam White, Claire Martin, Mike Carr, Jimmy Witherspoon and Georgie Fame.
He has won many British music awards including "Best Guitar" in the British Telecom Jazz Awards (1994, 1996 and 2000).
