Genre: Jazz
Jazz has been called America's classical music, and for good reason. Along with the blues, its forefather, it is one of the first truly indigenous musics to develop in America, yet its unpredictable, risky ventures into improvisation gave it critical cache with scholars that the blues lacked. At the outset, jazz was dance music, performed by swinging big bands. (read more)
Related Genres
- Big Band/Swing
- Big Band
- Continental Jazz
- Experimental Big Band
- Jive
- Modern Big Band
- Orchestral Jazz
- Progressive Big Band
- Progressive Jazz
- Retro Swing
- Sweet Bands
- Swing
- Bop
- Bop
- Vocalese
- Cool
- Chamber Jazz
- Cool
- West Coast Jazz
- Free Jazz
- Avant-Garde Jazz
- Free Funk
- Free Jazz
- M-Base
- Modern Creative
- Third Stream
- Fusion
- Contemporary Jazz
- Crossover Jazz
- Free Funk
- Fusion
- Jazz-Pop
- Jazz-Rock
- Smooth Jazz
- Hard Bop
- Hard Bop
- Modal Music
- Neo-Bop
- Post-Bop
- Standards
- Latin Jazz/World Fusion
- Afro-Cuban Jazz
- Big Band Latino
- Brazilian Jazz
- Cuban Jazz
- Latin Jazz
- World Fusion
- New Orleans/Classic Jazz
- Boogie-Woogie
- Classic Jazz
- Dixieland
- Mainstream Jazz
- New Orleans Jazz
- Ragtime
- Stride
- Trad Jazz
- Soul Jazz/Groove
- Hard Bop
- Jazz-Funk
- Soul-Jazz
Albums
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