Ronald Shannon Jackson

drums, composition · 1940–2013 · Fort Worth

Drummer born in Fort Worth, Ronald Shannon Jackson recorded with Albert Ayler in the late 1960s, joined Ornette Coleman's Prime Time in 1975, then played with Cecil Taylor. In 1979 he founded the Decoding Society, which extends the harmolodic principle into a form of free funk.

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Styles

• Harmolodic funk, Prime Time
• Downtown New York, No Wave

Landmark tracks

• Apache Love Cry (1980)

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