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Free funk

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Cultural origins
  
1970s, United States

Derivative forms
  
Stylistic origins
  
Free jazzavant-garde jazzjazz fusionfree improvisationfunkjazz-funk

Typical instruments
  
Saxophoneguitarbass guitardrums

Free funk is a term that Allmusic and writer Scott Yanow use to describe 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 been quite influential on the M-Base genre, as well.

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