Free funk

Music fusion genre which combines funk music with avant-garde jazz
Free funk
Stylistic origins
  • Free jazz
  • avant-garde jazz
  • jazz fusion
  • free improvisation
  • funk
  • jazz-funk
Cultural origins1970s, United States
Typical instruments
  • Saxophone
  • guitar
  • bass guitar
  • drums
Derivative formsM-Base, avant-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]

See also

References

  1. ^ Yanow, Scott (2005). Jazz: a regional exploration. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 232. ISBN 9780313328718. Retrieved 2010-05-23.
  2. ^ "Free Funk Genre". Allmusic. Retrieved 2007-06-25.
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