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
Stylistic origins	Free jazz avant-garde jazz jazz fusion free improvisation funk jazz-funk
Cultural origins	1970s, United States
Typical instruments	Saxophone guitar bass guitar drums
Derivative forms	M-Base, 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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Free funk

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