Free funk

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,^[1] 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.^[2]

Free funk
Stylistic origins	Free jazz avant-garde jazz jazz fusion free improvisation funk jazz-funk
Cultural origins	1970s, United States
Typical instruments	Saxophone guitar bass guitar drums
Derivative forms	M-Base, avant-funk

See also

• Harmolodic funk
• List of free funk musicians
• Avant-funk