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Music fusion genre which combines funk music with avant-garde jazz
| Free funk |
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| Cultural origins | 1970s, United States |
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| Derivative forms |
M-Base,
avant-funk |
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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,
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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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