This is FRESH AIR. In the 1970s, influential musicians such as Ornette Coleman began combining free jazz and electric funk. Three notable vets of free funk bands periodically team up to get ...

If you look up "funk" in the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, you get the following definition: "A style of black American popular music which developed in the mid-1960s out of soul music. It is ...

Jason Newsom is a solo guitarist and vocalist from Portland, Ore. His unique slap-funk guitar approach has been called “absorbing” (Jazznow.com) and his compositions have been described as “supremely ...

Funk rhythms are used in many genres and your playing will improve if you try out the techniques. From folk or indie to rock and blues, funk guitar can be applied in lots of creative ways. “Okay, I’m ...

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If you were lucky enough to catch Prince live, you will know what a supremely talented player he was. Equally captivating, soulful and 'burn the house down' funky on record, Prince is an obvious ...

Year: 1970 A smorgasbord of sound, Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew is arguably one of the greatest jazz albums ever recorded, a mash-up of sounds, styles, and genres via mellow bass lines, electric piano, ...

Prior to the advent of electrical amplification, the role of the guitar in jazz was strictly that of a chorded rhythm instrument, chugging along with the bass and drums and helping to propel whatever ...

Funk music truly came into its own as a genre in the 1960s, but according to Brian Eno, the roots of the genre originated in ...