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Free funk

Free funk is a music genre in the 1970s. It is usually classed as a form of jazz-funk and avant-garde jazz. Explore key artists and related styles.

About Free funk

Free funk is a music genre in the 1970s. It is usually classed as a form of jazz-funk and avant-garde jazz.

From Wikipedia

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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What is Free funk?

Free funk is a music genre in the 1970s. It is usually classed as a form of jazz-funk and avant-garde jazz.

Where and when did Free funk originate?

Free funk originated in the 1970s.

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