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listen the best laid-back Bop Jazz music of all time

Bop or Bebop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States. Uptempo, improvisational form of jazz that emerged as an offshoot of Swing in the 1940's. Served as an antithesis to the...
listen the best laid-back Bossa Nova Jazz music of all time

Bossa Νova is a genre of Brazilian music, which developed and was popularized in the 1950s and 1960s. The phrase bossa nova means literally "new trend". A lyrical fusion of samba and jazz...
listen the best laid-back Contemporary Jazz music of all time

Contemporary Jazz is essentially a catch-all term for the various permutations of popular, mainstream jazz of the 80s and 90s. While those years were certainly not devoid of complex, cerebral jazz...
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A very soft style that features organs, strings or other very "light" instruments. May be instrumental or with a vocalist. Easy listening is a popular music genre and radio format that was popular during the 1950s to 1970s...
listen the best laid-back Jazz Fusion music of all time

Fusion or Jazz Fusion is a subgenre of Jazz with elements of Progressive, Psychedelic Rock music. It also has elements of Funk, Bebop, Rhythm 'n' Blues, World Music and 20th century Classical music...
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Latin Jazz is a genre of jazz with Latin American rhythms. The two main categories are Afro-Cuban jazz, rhythmically based on Cuban popular dance music, with a rhythm section employing ostinato...
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Post Bop is jazz from the mid-1960s onward that assimilates Hard Bop, Modal Jazz, Avant-garde and Free Jazz without necessarily being immediately identifiable as any of the above. Post Bop reflects influences like the more...
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Smooth Jazz, that is usually considered a very "poppy" and commercial form of the jazz, influenced by R&B and Funk and usually is very downtempo and mellow, and features prominent bass...
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Soul Jazz or Funky Jazz is a subgenre of jazz that incorporates strong influences from hard bop, blues, soul, gospel and rhythm and blues. Soul Jazz is often characterized by organ trios featuring the Hammond organ...
listen the best laid-back Swing Jazz music of all time

The Swing style developed in the 1930s and should not be used for earlier records such as 1920s jazz. While the Swing style has its roots in the 1920s as jazz developed due to the emergence of musicians such as Louis Armstrong...

Jazz is a genre of music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century. Jazz emerged in many parts of the United States of independent popular musical styles, linked by the common bonds of European American and African-American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz spans a range of music from ragtime to the present day – a period of over 100 years – and has proved to be very difficult to define. Jazz makes heavy use of improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note, as well as aspects of European harmony, American popular music, the brass band tradition, and African musical elements such as blue notes and ragtime.

While New Orleans jazz has improvised ensembles, when jazz started becoming popular in the 1920s and demand was growing for larger dance bands, it became necessary for ensembles to be written down, particularly when a group included more than three musicians.

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