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  Cool jazz

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• Post-bop

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• Acid jazz

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• Third Stream

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• Hard bop

  Hard bop is a style of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music. Hard bop incorporates influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing. David H. Rosenthal also contends in his book Hard Bop that it is to a large degree the natural...

• Modern Creative

  Modern Creative is a genre of jazz that combines older genres like bop, free, and fusion, with contemporary musical styles such as funk, pop, and rock. Allmusic defines it as: "Continuing the tradition of the '50s to '60s free-jazz mode, Modern Creative musicians may incorporate free playing into...

• Free jazz

  Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s. Each...

• Avant-garde jazz

  Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. Avant-jazz often sounds very similar to free jazz, but differs in that, despite its distinct departure from traditional harmony, it has a predetermined...