18 Jazz Styles and some representatives of that style
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18 JAZZ STYLES AND SOME OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVES
- Dixieland (1895-1910, Dixieland Revival 1940-1950's) – (Original Dixieland Jazz Band)
- Ragtime (1895-1918) – (Scott Joplin)
- Big Band Dance Orchestras (1930's - late 1940's) - sweet (lyrical, slow, popular) (Paul Whiteman’s band) and hot (faster, energetic, powerful) – (Glenn Miller or Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra)
- Swing (1890-1910) - Swing music became popular around 1935 (although it began in the 1920’s). It is distinguished by a more supple feel using a walking bass line developed by Walter Page rather than the more literal 4/4 timing of earlier jazz – (Duke Ellington’s Orchestra)
- Bebop (1890-1910) – (Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie)
- Cool jazz/West Coast jazz (1890-1910) – (early Miles Davis, Chet Baker)
- Bossa Nova (1890-1910) - Brazilian music and jazz (Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd)
- Modal Jazz (1890-1910) - (Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue”)
- Hard Bop (1890-1910) - (Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers)
- Free jazz (1890-1910) - (Ornette Coleman)
- Soul Jazz (1960-1975) incorporates blues, soul, gospel, and rhythm & blues, often featuring a Hammond organ - (Cannonball Adderley, Horace Silver)
- Latin Jazz (1890-1910) - (Machito, Tito Puente, Cal Tjader, Poncho Sanchez)
- Third Stream (1890-1910) - classical music & jazz (Gunther Schuller)
- Jazz-Rock fusion (1890-1910)– (late Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Return to Forever)
- Post Bop jazz (1890-1910) – (Joe Lovano, Phil Woods)
- World fusion jazz (1890-1910) – (Shakti, Nguyen Lê)
- Heavy Metal Jazz (1890-1910) – (Last Exit)
- Creative Improvised Music (1890-1910) – heavy blowing, traditional/non-traditional, and free (Peter Brotzmann, Anthony Braxton, AACM, Henry Threadgill)