Free funk

{{Short description|Music fusion genre which combines funk music with avant-garde jazz}}

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| name = Free funk

| stylistic_origins = {{hlist|Free jazz|avant-garde jazz|jazz fusion|free improvisation|funk|jazz-funk}}

| cultural_origins = 1970s, United States

| instruments = {{hlist|Saxophone|guitar|bass guitar|drums}}

| derivatives = 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,{{cite book |title=Jazz: a regional exploration |last=Yanow |first=Scott |year=2005 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn= 9780313328718 |page=232 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HzvVii1doGgC&q=%22Free+funk%22&pg=PA232 |access-date=2010-05-23}} 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.{{cite web | title = Free Funk Genre | publisher = Allmusic | url = {{AllMusic|class=explore|id=style/d2609|pure_url=yes}} | access-date = 2007-06-25 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}