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Cool Jazz

A "mellow" "West Coast" jazz style developed in the 1950s.

Free Jazz

A "random" loosely-structured style of jazz promoted by Coleman.

Fusion

A combination of Jazz and Rock styles.

Swing

A jazz style prominent in the 1930s-50s, associated with artists such as Duke Ellington and Count Basie, and featuring a large ensemble of musicians.

Hot Jazz

A lively early style of "Dixieland" jazz developed in the 1920s/30s.

Scat singing

A style of improvised jazz singing on colorful nonsense syllables.

Orchestral Jazz

A symphonic style that incorporates certain elements of jazz, but has no improvisation.

Big Band

A white, more heavily-arranged adaptation of "swing" associated with artists such as Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey.

Jazz "Rhythm Section"

Usually Bass, Piano/Guitar and Drums.

Bebop

An intensely improvisatory/virtuosic style of jazz developed in the 1950s

Boogie Woogie

An outgrowth of Rhythm & Blues with its well-known "8-to-the-bar rhythmic structure


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