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.infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox nowraplinks"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above">Smooth jazz</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Chuck_Mangione_DSC0042_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Chuck_Mangione_DSC0042_2.jpg/220px-Chuck_Mangione_DSC0042_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Chuck_Mangione_DSC0042_2.jpg/330px-Chuck_Mangione_DSC0042_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Chuck_Mangione_DSC0042_2.jpg/440px-Chuck_Mangione_DSC0042_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4256" data-file-height="2832" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Chuck Mangione in <a href="/wiki/Brampton" title="Brampton">Brampton</a> in 2009</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Stylistic origins</th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jazz_fusion" title="Jazz fusion">Jazz fusion</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" title="Rhythm and blues">rhythm and blues</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Soul_music" title="Soul music">soul</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cultural origins</th><td class="infobox-data hlist">1970s, United States</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Fusion genres</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/Crossover_jazz" class="mw-redirect" title="Crossover jazz">Crossover jazz</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Other topics</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/List_of_smooth_jazz_musicians" title="List of smooth jazz musicians">List of musicians</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Smooth jazz</b> is a term used to describe commercially oriented <a href="/wiki/Crossover_jazz" class="mw-redirect" title="Crossover jazz">crossover jazz</a> music. Although often described as a "genre", it is a debatable and highly controversial subject in jazz music circles. As a radio format, however, <a href="/wiki/Smooth_jazz_radio" title="Smooth jazz radio">smooth jazz radio</a> became the successor to <a href="/wiki/Easy_listening" title="Easy listening">easy listening</a> music on radio station programming from the mid-1970s through the early 1990s. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Smooth_jazz&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Smooth jazz may be thought of as commercially-oriented, crossover jazz which came to prominence in the 1980s, displacing the more venturesome <a href="/wiki/Jazz_fusion" title="Jazz fusion">jazz fusion</a> from which it emerged. It avoids the <a href="/wiki/Jazz_improvisation" title="Jazz improvisation">improvisational</a> "risk-taking" of jazz fusion, emphasizing melodic form, and much of the music was initially "a combination of jazz with easy-listening <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop music</a> and lightweight <a href="/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" title="Rhythm and blues">R&B</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-fushion_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fushion-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-explore_amg_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-explore_amg-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the mid-1970s in the United States, it was known as "smooth radio"; the genre was not termed "smooth jazz" until the 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-Gioia2011_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gioia2011-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The term itself seems to have been birthed directly out of radio marketing efforts. In an industry focus group in the late 1980s, one participant coined the phrase "smooth jazz" – and it stuck.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The popularity of smooth jazz as a radio format grew in the 80s and 90s, but gradually declined in the early 2000s. By 2009, many stations including in NYC, Washington, DC, and Boston had switched away from the format. <sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>“Smooth jazz” was by far the dominant market force in jazz at the end of the century, and it sidetracked the artistic lives of some musicians who might have made more interesting music but for the draw of big paydays. But the radio stations playing sax-and-synth dominated lite funk faded in the first decade of the 21st century. <sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pioneers_and_Notable_songs">Pioneers and Notable songs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Smooth_jazz&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Pioneers and Notable songs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Smooth Jazz was arguably pioneered in the early 1970's, with notable songs and artists including: "<a href="/wiki/Grazing_in_the_Grass" title="Grazing in the Grass">Grazing in the grass</a>" (1968), by trumpeter <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Masekela" title="Hugh Masekela">Hugh Masekela</a>, "<a href="/wiki/Nautilus_(song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nautilus (song)">Nautilus</a>" (1974) by keyboardist <a href="/wiki/Bob_James_(musician)" title="Bob James (musician)"> Bob James</a>, and "<a href="/wiki/Mister_Magic" title="Mister Magic">Mister Magic</a>" (1975) by saxophist <a href="/wiki/Grover_Washington,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Grover Washington, Jr.">Grover Washington, Jr.</a>. </p><p>Other early popular releases include guitarist <a href="/wiki/George_Benson" title="George Benson">George Benson</a>'s 1976 cover/version of "<a href="/wiki/Breezin%27_(song)" title="Breezin' (song)">Breezin'</a>" and <a href="/wiki/Flugelhorn" title="Flugelhorn">flugelhorn</a> player <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Mangione" title="Chuck Mangione">Chuck Mangione</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Feels_So_Good_(composition)" title="Feels So Good (composition)">Feels So Good</a>" in 1977. Others are "<a href="/wiki/What_You_Won%27t_Do_for_Love_(song)" title="What You Won't Do for Love (song)">What You Won't Do for Love</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Caldwell" title="Bobby Caldwell">Bobby Caldwell</a> in 1978, jazz fusion group <a href="/wiki/Spyro_Gyra" title="Spyro Gyra">Spyro Gyra</a>'s 1979 instrumental song "<a href="/wiki/Morning_Dance" title="Morning Dance">Morning Dance</a>" <sup id="cite_ref-Gioia2011_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gioia2011-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the 1981 collaboration between <a href="/wiki/Grover_Washington_Jr." title="Grover Washington Jr.">Grover Washington Jr.</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bill_Withers" title="Bill Withers">Bill Withers</a> on "<a href="/wiki/Just_the_Two_of_Us_(Grover_Washington,_Jr._song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Just the Two of Us (Grover Washington, Jr. song)">Just the Two of Us</a>". </p><p>Smooth jazz grew in popularity in the 1980s and 1990s as <a href="/wiki/Anita_Baker" title="Anita Baker">Anita Baker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sade_(singer)" title="Sade (singer)">Sade</a>, <a href="/wiki/Al_Jarreau" title="Al Jarreau">Al Jarreau</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grover_Washington_Jr." title="Grover Washington Jr.">Grover Washington Jr.</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kenny_G" title="Kenny G">Kenny G</a> released multiple hit songs.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>See also, <a href="/wiki/List_of_smooth_jazz_musicians" title="List of smooth jazz musicians">list of smooth jazz artists</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_and_public_reception">Critical and public reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Smooth_jazz&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Critical and public reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The smooth jazz genre experienced a backlash exemplified by critical complaints about the "bland" sound of top-selling saxophonist Kenny G, whose popularity peaked with his 1992 album <i><a href="/wiki/Breathless_(Kenny_G_album)" title="Breathless (Kenny G album)">Breathless</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Gioia2011_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gioia2011-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Music reviewer George Graham argues that the "so-called 'smooth jazz' sound of people like Kenny G has none of the fire and creativity<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that marked the best of the fusion scene during its heyday in the 1970s".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Digby_Fairweather" title="Digby Fairweather">Digby Fairweather</a>, before the start of UK jazz station <a href="/wiki/TheJazz" title="TheJazz">theJazz</a>, denounced the change to a smooth jazz format on defunct radio station <a href="/wiki/102.2_Jazz_FM" title="102.2 Jazz FM">102.2 Jazz FM</a>; he stated that the owners <a href="/wiki/GMG_Radio" title="GMG Radio">GMG Radio</a> were responsible for the "attempted rape and (fortunately abortive) re-definition of the music — is one that no true jazz lover within the boundaries of the <a href="/wiki/M25_motorway" title="M25 motorway">M25</a> will ever find it possible to forget or forgive."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Smooth_jazz&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lofi_hip_hop" class="mw-redirect" title="Lofi hip hop">Lofi hip hop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mallsoft" title="Mallsoft">Mallsoft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quiet_storm" title="Quiet storm">Quiet storm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sophisti-pop" title="Sophisti-pop">Sophisti-pop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yacht_rock" title="Yacht rock">Yacht rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smooth_jazz_radio" title="Smooth jazz radio">Smooth jazz radio</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Smooth_jazz&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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Oxford University Press. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historyofjazz00gioia/page/337">337</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780195399707" title="Special:BookSources/9780195399707"><bdi>9780195399707</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+History+of+Jazz&rft.pages=337&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2011-05-09&rft.isbn=9780195399707&rft.aulast=Gioia&rft.aufirst=Ted&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fhistoryofjazz00gioia%2Fpage%2F337&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASmooth+jazz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFMarshall2023" class="citation magazine cs1">Marshall, Colin (July 6, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-rise-and-fall-of-smooth-jazz">"The Rise and Fall of Smooth Jazz"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=The+Rise+and+Fall+of+Smooth+Jazz&rft.date=2023-07-06&rft.aulast=Marshall&rft.aufirst=Colin&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fculture%2Fcultural-comment%2Fthe-rise-and-fall-of-smooth-jazz&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASmooth+jazz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.popmatters.com/184400-jazz-of-the-00s-jumping-past-the-great-divide-2495632353.html">Jazz of the 00s - Jumping The Great Divide - Popmatters</a> "the market for jazz was starting to get less rigid too. “Smooth jazz” was by far the dominant market force in jazz at the end of the century, and it sidetracked the artistic lives of some musicians who might have made more interesting music but for the draw of big paydays. But the radio stations playing sax-and-synth dominated lite funk faded in the first decade of the 21st century. 2008 marked the death of the smooth jazz stations in both New York and Washington, DC"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.popmatters.com/184400-jazz-of-the-00s-jumping-past-the-great-divide-2495632353.html">Jazz of the 00s - Jumping The Great Divide - Popmatters</a> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLarson2002" class="citation book cs1">Larson, Thomas (2002). <i>History and Tradition of Jazz</i>. Kendall Hunt. p. 188. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780787275747" title="Special:BookSources/9780787275747"><bdi>9780787275747</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=History+and+Tradition+of+Jazz&rft.pages=188&rft.pub=Kendall+Hunt&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=9780787275747&rft.aulast=Larson&rft.aufirst=Thomas&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASmooth+jazz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBDWomgRgWU">How smooth jazz took over the '90s - Vox on YouTube</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Graham, George, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20121209204621/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5Z0ukGXTz54J:georgegraham.com/reviews/methgrp.html">review</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFFairweather2006" class="citation web cs1">Fairweather, Digby (2006-11-18). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080304122322/http://www.flyglobalmusic.com/fly/archives/europe_features/new_jazz_station_goodbye_to_th.html">"New Jazz Station - Goodbye to the Smooth, Hello to the Classics"</a>. Fly Global Music Culture. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.flyglobalmusic.com/fly/archives/europe_features/new_jazz_station_goodbye_to_th.html">the original</a> on 2008-03-04<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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standards">post-1950</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: Pink;width:1%">Discographies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bethlehem_Records" title="Bethlehem Records">Bethlehem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blue_Note_Records_discography" title="Blue Note Records discography">Blue Note</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BYG_Records" title="BYG Records">BYG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cobblestone_Records" title="Cobblestone Records">Cobblestone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contemporary_Records" title="Contemporary Records">Contemporary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CTI_Records" title="CTI Records">CTI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ECM_Records" title="ECM Records">ECM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ESP-Disk" title="ESP-Disk">ESP-Disk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flying_Dutchman_Records" title="Flying Dutchman Records">Flying 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<li><a href="/wiki/Verve_Records_discography" title="Verve Records discography">Verve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winter_%26_Winter_Records" title="Winter & Winter Records">Winter & Winter</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: Pink;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_jazz_festivals" title="List of jazz festivals">Festivals</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beaches_International_Jazz_Festival" title="Beaches International Jazz Festival">Beaches (Toronto)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cape_Town_International_Jazz_Festival" title="Cape Town International Jazz Festival">Cape Town</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Jazz_Festival" title="Chicago Jazz Festival">Chicago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Copenhagen_Jazz_Festival" title="Copenhagen Jazz Festival">Copenhagen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Detroit_International_Jazz_Festival" title="Detroit International Jazz Festival">Detroit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jakarta_International_Java_Jazz_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival">Jakarta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monterey_Jazz_Festival" title="Monterey Jazz Festival">Monterey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montreal_International_Jazz_Festival" title="Montreal International Jazz Festival">Montreal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montreux_Jazz_Festival" title="Montreux Jazz Festival">Montreux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_Jazz_%26_Heritage_Festival" title="New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival">New Orleans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newport_Jazz_Festival" title="Newport Jazz Festival">Newport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Sea_Jazz_Festival" title="North Sea Jazz Festival">North Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pori_Jazz" title="Pori Jazz">Pori</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Lucia_Jazz_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Lucia Jazz Festival">Saint Lucia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: Pink;width:1%">Culture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_jazz_contrafacts" title="List of jazz contrafacts">Contrafacts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_jazz_institutions_and_organizations" title="List of jazz institutions and organizations">Institutions and organizations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jazz_funeral" title="Jazz funeral">Jazz funeral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jazz_poetry" title="Jazz poetry">Jazz poetry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jazz_royalty" title="Jazz royalty">Jazz royalty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jazz_harmony" title="Jazz harmony">Jazz theory</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Template:Jazz_theory" title="Template:Jazz theory">See Template: Jazz theory</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rare_groove" title="Rare groove">Rare groove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_line_(parades)" title="Second line (parades)">Second line</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_jazz_venues" title="List of jazz venues">Venues</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: Pink;width:1%">Regional scenes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: Pink;width:1%">African</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ethio-jazz" title="Ethio-jazz">Ethiopia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Malawi#Malawian_jazz" title="Music of Malawi">Malawian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_African_jazz" title="South African jazz">South African</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cape_jazz" title="Cape jazz">Cape jazz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marabi" title="Marabi">Marabi</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zimbabwean_jazz" title="Zimbabwean jazz">Zimbabwean</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: Pink;width:1%">Asian</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_jazz" title="Armenian jazz">Armenian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijani_jazz" title="Azerbaijani jazz">Azerbaijani</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jazz_mugham" title="Jazz mugham">Jazz mugham</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jazz_in_China" title="Jazz in China">Chinese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jazz_in_India" title="Jazz in India">Indian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indo_jazz" title="Indo jazz">Indo jazz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sitar_in_jazz" title="Sitar in jazz">Sitar</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_jazz" title="Iranian jazz">Iranian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_jazz" title="Japanese jazz">Japanese</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: Pink;width:1%">European</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Balkan_jazz" title="Balkan jazz">Balkan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_jazz" title="Bulgarian jazz">Bulgarian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belgian_jazz" title="Belgian jazz">Belgian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_jazz" title="British jazz">British</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/British_dance_band" title="British dance band">British dance band</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_jazz" title="Continental jazz">Continental European</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jazz_in_Czechoslovakia" title="Jazz in Czechoslovakia">Czech and Slovak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danish_jazz" title="Danish jazz">Danish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutch_jazz" title="Dutch jazz">Dutch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_free_jazz" title="European free jazz">European free jazz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_jazz" title="French jazz">French</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_jazz" title="German jazz">German</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_jazz" title="Italian jazz">Italian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_jazz" title="Polish jazz">Polish</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yass_(music)" title="Yass (music)">Yass</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_jazz" title="Russian jazz">Russian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_jazz" title="Spanish jazz">Spanish</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Flamenco_jazz" title="Flamenco jazz">Flamenco jazz</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swedish_jazz" title="Swedish jazz">Swedish</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: Pink;width:1%">North American</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_jazz" title="Canadian jazz">Canadian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mini-jazz" title="Mini-jazz">Haitian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_jazz" title="Latin jazz">Latin American</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afro-Cuban_jazz" title="Afro-Cuban jazz">Cuban</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="American8" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: Pink;width:1%">American</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Baltimore#Jazz" title="Music of Baltimore">Baltimore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Chicago#Jazz" title="Music of Chicago">Chicago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Detroit#Jazz" title="Music of Detroit">Detroit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_jazz" title="Kansas City jazz">Kansas City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_New_Orleans#Jazz" title="Music of New Orleans">New Orleans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_New_York_City#Blues_and_jazz" title="Music of New York City">New York City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Washington,_D.C.#Jazz" title="Music of Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Coast_jazz" title="West Coast jazz">West Coast</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: Pink;width:1%">Oceanian</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australian_jazz" title="Australian jazz">Australian</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: Pink;width:1%">South American</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" 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