Free Funk: Best Sellers

Lester Bowie's projects apart from the Art Ensemble of Chicago tread a high wire between challenging improvised music and R&B-pop. [more]

John Surman's Jazz in Britain 68-69 is an overview disc of his '60s band and one of the [more]

Inner Crisis by Larry Willis is one of the very finest examples of electric jazz-funk from the mid-'70s. With sidemen who included [more]

Bassist Melvin Jackson has exactly one album in his catalog as a leader (he spent most of his time playing with Eddie Harris). But [more]

From the opening four notes of Michael Henderson's hypnotically minimal bass that open the unedited master of "On [more]

For those who were rightfully seduced by James Blood Ulmer's stripped-to-the-bone 2005 [more]

This solo CD by percussionist Jerome Cooper cannot be considered unnecessary -- his few LPs as a leader have not [more]

Label: Columbia/Legacy

In an era when box sets are so plentiful and are basically de rigueur for any major, and some not so major labels, it's [more]

Bobby Previte has been full of surprises during his long and quirky career as a musician's musician. Whether playing [more]

When bassist Christian McBride first emerged on the jazz scene, he was a youthful phenomenon who seemed set to follow in the [more]

James Blood Ulmer removes his name from the cover of this reunion of his Odyssey trio, and for good reason. As the rather awkward [more]