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Free Radicals is an American jazz, funk, hip-hop, avant-garde, ska, reggae, African music, Indian music, punk, klezmer, polka and latin jazz group based in Houston, Texas. == History == Free Radicals' live band includes six or seven members. On recordings — ''The Rising Tide Sinks All'' (1998), ''Our Lady of Eternal Sunny Delights'' (2000), ''Aerial Bombardment'' (2004), and ''The Freedom Fence'' (2012) — Free Radicals invites a group of 50 or more musicians and vocalists into the studio. Drummer Nick Cooper founded the group in 1996, with a goal of specializing in improvised music.〔 In 2000, ''The New Yorker'' wrote "The horn-heavy, continually evolving collective Free Radicals produces a wildly eclectic fusion that has as many influences as there are items in the Houston, Texas, pawnshop in which they honed their sound during all-night jam sessions." In 2010, ''Dawn'' wrote that the artwork and message about underwater oil-leaks, oil-wars, and bank-crashes on the band's first CD was like a "premonition waiting to become true." Free Radicals performs many concerts, marches and fund-raisers for anti-authoritarian and radical groups like food not bombs, peace festivals, and charities events including a continuous 24-hour concert in November 1999 to raise money for Kid Care, a health program for children. They have protested against Halliburton, and participated in marches for immigrants' rights and for a Houston janitor's union.〔 Free Radicals has won the following 20 Houston Press awards: * 1998: Best Jazz, Best Unsigned Band〔 * 1999: Best Jazz, Best Funk, Best Drummer〔 * 2001: Best Jazz * 2002: Best Jazz〔 * 2003: Best Jazz * 2004: Best CD by Local Musicians * 2008: Best Jazz * 2009: Best Jazz, Best Drummer * 2010: Best Jazz, * 2011: Best Jazz, * 2012: Best CD, Best Song, Best Jazz * 2013: Best Jazz * 2014: Best Jazz * 2015: Best Jazz 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Free Radicals (band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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