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Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States. It is characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions—with rapid chord changes, changes of key, and substitute chords—along with virtuosic improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, scales, and occasional references to the melody.

style of jazz or musical genre based on the rhythmic pulse of music composed of pairs of eighth notes with a longer initial note and a shorter second note

music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues

style of jazz music

genre of music, mixing elements of funk, soul, jazz and electronic music

sub-genre of jazz associated with the U.S. West Coast

Skiffle is a genre of folk music with influences from American folk music, blues, country, bluegrass, and jazz, generally performed with a mixture of manufactured and homemade or improvised instruments.

subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music

avant-garde jazz

fusion of electronic and jazz music

genre of jazz with Latin American rhythms

Jazz-funk is a subgenre of jazz music characterized by a strong back beat, electrified sounds, and analog synthesizers. The integration of funk, soul, and R&B music and styles into jazz resulted in the creation of a genre that ranges from pure jazz improvisation to soul, funk or disco with jazz arrangements, jazz riffs, jazz solos, and sometimes soul vocals. Similar genres to jazz funk include acid jazz.

up-tempo blues usually played by small groups and featuring horns

Post-bop is a jazz term with several possible definitions and usages. It has been variously defined as a musical period, a musical genre, a musical style, and a body of music, sometimes in different chronological periods, depending on the writer. Musicologist Barry Kernfeld wrote in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians that post-bop is "a vague term, used either stylistically or chronologically (with divergent results) to describe any continuation or amalgamation of bop, modal jazz, and free jazz; its meaning sometimes extends into swing and earlier styles or into fusion and third s

subgenre of American country music

jazz piano style

twelve-bar blues

prominent chord progression in popular music

West Coast jazz

various styles of jazz music

free improvisation

subgenre of experimental music

form of jazz in the United States and Britain that flourished from the 1930s to 1960s

Afro-Cuban jazz

mainstream jazz

genre of jazz music

Marabi is a style of music and dance form that evolved and emerged in South Africa between the 1890s and 1920s.

The term "M-Base" is used in several ways. In the 1980s, a loose collective of young African American musicians including Steve Coleman, Graham Haynes, Cassandra Wilson, Geri Allen, Robin Eubanks, and Greg Osby emerged in Brooklyn with a new sound and specific ideas about creative expression. Using a term coined by Steve Coleman, they called these ideas "M-Base-concept" (short for "macro-basic array of structured extemporization") and critics have used this term to categorize this scene's music as a jazz style. But Coleman stressed "M-Base" doesn't denote a musical style but a way of thinking

Kansas City jazz

music genre or scene

orchestral jazz

Polish music style

straight-ahead jazz

jazz music style

genre of jazz involving small, acoustic-based ensembles where group interplay is important

genre of jazz that is performed in the very southern part of Africa

Neo-bop (also called neotraditionalist) refers to a style of jazz that gained popularity in the 1980s among musicians who found greater aesthetic affinity for acoustically based, swinging, melodic forms of jazz than for free jazz and jazz fusion that had gained prominence in the 1960s and 1970s. Neo-bop is distinct from previous bop music due to the influence of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, who popularized the genre as an artistic and academic endeavor opposed to the countercultural developments of the beat generation.

Continental jazz