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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, 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.

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Free funk
Stylistic origins
Cultural origins1970s, United States
Typical instruments
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

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References

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.