Jazz Is the Teacher (Funk Is the Preacher)
Context
Title track of the album Are You Glad to Be in America?, recorded on January 17, 1980 at RCA Studios in New York and first released in the United Kingdom by Rough Trade. A guitarist who came through Ornette Coleman's band and lived at Coleman's home to study harmolodic theory, Ulmer transposes this approach to the guitar. Tenor saxophonist David Murray appears on the album.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Harmolodic funk, Prime Time. Among the origins and influences of Harmolodic funk, Prime Time: Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, Free jazz.