18 Jazz Styles and some representatives of that style

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)