Free-funk is a combination of
avant-garde jazz with
funk music
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mi ...
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.
See also
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Harmolodic funk
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List of free funk musicians
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Avant-funk
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References
Jazz genres
Funk genres
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