jaz
Blue Note (Jazz · Gospel · Blues)
Jazz
- Era
- 1910–present
- Origin
- New Orleans
- Student playlists
- None yet
About this supergenre
Born in turn-of-the-century New Orleans from blues, ragtime, and brass-band traditions. Improvisation, blue notes, swung rhythm. The first great African-American art music — and the engine of nearly everything that came after.
Canonical reference: musicmap.info / jaz
Inside jazz · 16 subgenre s on a mini-timeline
Each subgenre at its emergence year, oldest at top. This is what students curate playlists for — the granular level. Click any subgenre chip from the main map and you land on its row here.
- 1910s
- 1920s
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1950s
- 1960s
- 1970s
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 2000s
- 2010s
- 2020s
- 2030s
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Dixieland / New Orleans
1910
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Chicago Jazz
1922
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Swing / Big Band
1933
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Bebop
1944
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Latin Jazz
1947
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Cool Jazz
1949
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Hard Bop
1953
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Soul Jazz
1955
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Modal Jazz
1959
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Free Jazz
1959
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Jazz Fusion
1968
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ECM / European Jazz
1969
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Smooth Jazz
1975
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Acid Jazz
1987
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Nu Jazz
1995
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Electro Swing
2000
Connective tissue · 4 link s
How jazz relates to the rest of the map. Click any genre to follow the line.
Primary lineage
Direct parents and direct children — the main line.
Other influences
Cousin genres and indirect influences that shaped this supergenre.
Student curations
No playlists for jazz yet.
This supergenre is waiting for a curator. If you're in MUSA 266 or MUSA 220 and this is your assignment, build a 5–10 track YouTube playlist and submit it through the course form.