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All the styles, movements and places of the genealogy of jazz, by period.
Roots and blues
- Afro-diasporic roots
- Boogie-woogie
- Blues, spirituals, work songs
- Classic blues (women singers)
- Gospel
- Jump blues, R&B
Origins (1890-1930)
Swing and big bands
- Jazz in France (interwar years)
- Symphonic jazz, dance orchestras
- Harlem: Henderson, Redman, Ellington
- Kansas City
- Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese
- Swing, big bands
- Hot Club de France, Gypsy jazz
- Traditional revival
Modern jazz (1940-1970)
- Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's)
- Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban
- Tristano School
- French jazz
- Modern big bands
- Cool (Birth of the Cool)
- West Coast
- British jazz
- Modal
- Hard bop
- Soul jazz, boogaloo
- Third stream
- Bossa nova, jazz samba
- Jazz in film and on screen
Avant-garde and collectives
- Free jazz
- Spiritual jazz
- AACM
- Free improvisation and European free
- Collectives and lofts (BAG, loft jazz)
- Harmolodic funk, Prime Time
- Downtown New York, No Wave
Hybrids and world
- Dutch jazz
- Antillean jazz (biguine, gwoka)
- Tango nuevo
- Ethio-jazz
- Indo-jazz
- Polish jazz
- South African jazz
- Japanese jazz
- Nordic jazz
- Clube da Esquina (Minas Gerais)
- Brazilian instrumental music
- Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk
- Canterbury scene and British jazz-rock
- Flamenco jazz
- Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz
- ECM and European jazz
- Krautjazz (German jazz-rock)
- Turkish and Anatolian jazz
- Neoclassicism, Young Lions
- Jazz of the Maghreb and the Near East
- M-Base
- Acid jazz, jazz-rap, nu jazz
- Israeli jazz
- Current scene (New York, Chicago, worldwide)
- Renaissances (Los Angeles, London)
All the tracks and all the artists
The 1101 tracks · The 632 artists
Artists
- Louis Armstrong
- Duke Ellington
- Count Basie
- Django Reinhardt
- Billie Holiday
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Charlie Parker
- Thelonious Monk
- Miles Davis
- John Coltrane
- Charles Mingus
- Bill Evans
- Ornette Coleman
- Herbie Hancock
- Kamasi Washington
- Fats Navarro
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe
- Oliver Nelson
- Joyce Moreno
- Freddy Johnson
- Antonio Carlos Jobim