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Avant Funk from 1969 – 1987 featuring the music of Albert Ayler with Mary Parks & the Soul Singers; Archie Shepp… with the Attica Blues Big Band, …from the film Imagine the Sound, …and with Jeanne Lee; Art Ensemble of Chicago with Fontella Bass; Julius Hemphill Quartet; Lester Bowie‘s Brass Fantasy; Miles Davis; Oliver Lake & Jump Up; Ornette Coleman.

An Edition of Some Other Stuff
Originally Broadcast on CHFR-FM – 96.5
Sunday, October 27th, 2013

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid to late 1960s when African-American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soulJulius music, jazz, and R&B. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground. Funk songs are often based on an extended vamp on a single chord, distinguishing it from R&B and soul songs, which are built on chord progressions.

Like much African-inspired music, funk typically consists of a complex groove with rhythm instruments such as electric guitar, electric bass, Hammond organ, and drums playing interlocking rhythms. Funk bands sometimes have a horn section of several saxophones, trumpets, and in some cases, a trombone, which plays rhythmic “hits”. [Wikipedia]

Julius Hemphill • Photograph Bill Smith (Moers Festival, Germany May 1977)

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