Free funk
Free-funk is a combination of avant-garde jazz with funk music that developed in the 1970s. Leaders of the genre include Ornette Coleman and his Prime Time group,[1] Ronald Shannon Jackson and his group Decoding Society, Jamaaladeen Tacuma and his group Spectacle and James "Blood" Ulmer. The music has also been quite influential on the M-Base genre.[2]
Free funk | |
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Stylistic origins | |
Cultural origins | 1970s, United States |
Typical instruments | |
Derivative forms | M-Base |
See also
- Harmolodic funk
- List of free funk musicians
- Avant-funk
References
- Yanow, Scott (2005). Jazz: a regional exploration. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 232. ISBN 9780313328718. Retrieved 2010-05-23.
- "Free Funk Genre". Allmusic. Retrieved 2007-06-25.
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