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 ...

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For those partial to music rooted in vintage soul and its allied forms, next week will seem like Christmas. On Tuesday, Seth Applebaum and his Ghost Funk Orchestra hit town, nine members strong, on a ...

So when the conscious Compton criminal came back with a bitches brew of spoken word, jazz, and funk on follow-up album To Pimp a Butterfly, K-Dot shocked critics, fans, bandwagon riders, lovers, and ...

Hip-hop first emerged in the Bronx during the 1970s as a creative outlet for Black communities grappling with social and economic hardships. Born out of block parties and street corner cyphers, it ...

If you are looking for Reading’s best kept secret you need go no further than the Railway Arches on Caversham Road. Situated under the arches of the uninspiring railway bridge is The Funky Jazz Club, ...

Jazz funk is a style of music that grew out of jazz, but brings in elements of soul music and rhythm and blues. While jazz often features a swing beat, jazz funk is backed by a groove rhythm that is ...

The unmistakable sounds of New Orleans will resonate in Mexico City this month as the acclaimed documentary Make It Funky! takes center stage at a special screening hosted by Mexico’s Horizonte 107.9 ...

UK rap legend Rodney P reveals the origins of the jazz-funk movement, the very first home-grown black British music culture, inspired by the avant-garde American music of the 70s. Show more UK rap ...