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This is a list of genres associated with the jazz tradition.
| Jazz genres (Alphabetical order) | |||||
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| Genre | Characteristics | Era | |||
| Acid jazz | Combined elements of soul music, funk, disco, including looping beats and modal harmony | 1980s-90s | |||
| Avant-jazz | |||||
| Bebop | |||||
| Dixieland | |||||
| Dixieland revival | |||||
| Calypso jazz | |||||
| Chamber jazz | |||||
| Contemporary jazz | |||||
| Continental Jazz | Early jazz dance bands of Europe in the swing medium, to the exclusion of Great Britain. | ||||
| Cool jazz | |||||
| Creative jazz | |||||
| Crossover jazz | |||||
| European free jazz | |||||
| Franchesca jazz | |||||
| Free funk | |||||
| Free jazz | |||||
| Groove jazz | |||||
| Gypsy jazz | |||||
| Hard bop | |||||
| Jazz blues | |||||
| Jazz-funk | |||||
| Jazz fusion | |||||
| Jazz rap | |||||
| Jazz rock | |||||
| Jungle Bop | |||||
| Kansas City Jazz | |||||
| Latin jazz | |||||
| Mini-jazz | |||||
| Modal jazz | |||||
| Modern Creative | Combines older jazz genres like fusion, bop, and free with more contemporary musical styles such as funk, pop, and rock | ||||
| M-Base | |||||
| Neo-bop jazz | |||||
| Neo-swing | |||||
| Novelty ragtime | |||||
| Nu jazz | |||||
| Orchestral jazz | |||||
| Pop-jazz | |||||
| Post-bop jazz | |||||
| Punk jazz | |||||
| Ragtime | |||||
| Ska jazz | |||||
| Smooth jazz | Combines jazz and jazz fusion elements with other styles of music, mostly R&B but also funk and pop music. | 1970s-present | |||
| Soul jazz | |||||
| Spank jazz | |||||
| Sri Lankan jazz | |||||
| Stride jazz | |||||
| Straight-ahead jazz | |||||
| Swing | |||||
| Third Stream jazz | |||||
| Trad jazz | |||||
| Vocal jazz | |||||
| West coast jazz | A less frenetic, calmer style than hard bop, heavily arranged, and more often compositionally-based sub-genre of cool jazz. | 1950s-60s | |||
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