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 ...

In the process, he introduced a new generation of listeners to the genres that made up the building blocks of rap music. For those feeling the hypnotizing musicianship and poetic prose on To Pimp, ...

Mack the Knife [Funky Version]; Moanin'; Sidewinder; Mississippi Windows; Work Song; Mortat [Modern Bebop Version]; Blues March. Legendary Jazz Saxophonist and hit Composer Benny Golson and his ...

Expressive, versatile, and dripping in history - the fizzing frequencies of funk and the seductive sounds of soul are ever-alluring; and when all these sounds merge on a festival lineup, you can bet ...