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 ...

Artists like Kendrick Lamar and Bad Bunny are part of a long line of musicians who talk back to power. Free Jazz first came onto the scene in the late 1950s and early 60s during a period of the United ...

All this week, fellow NPR Music blogger Carrie Brownstein is conducting a little experiment: she's trying to become a Phish fan. The band, she writes, is one “that some people intuitively don't like; ...

In the continuously evolving history of artistic expression, certain movements emerge that challenge the very foundations of our aesthetic sensibilities. In the early and mid-20th century, ...

Lou Reed of The Velvet Underground was quite a fan of jazz. In fact, he enjoyed the unique perspective of jazz and its freedom. Free-form jazz, specifically, could have easily inspired unique (and ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Thurston Moore is obsessed with jazz. Not the mellow, easy-listening variety that serves as background music in ...

For fans, free jazz is the most beautiful and liberatory music there is, yet the genre can be a step too far for many. With its unconventional approach to tonality, harmony and rhythm, free jazz can ...

The Royal Albert Hall’s Late Night Jazz series is set to return to the venue’s Elgar Room this month, with five shows covering a range of sub-genres, from swing, jive and funk to Latin, Indian and ...

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