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Acid Jazz
Afro-Cuban Jazz
Alternative (not primarily jazz; included for a documented jazz-scene connection)
Alternative Pop (not primarily jazz; included for a documented jazz-scene connection)
Alternative Rock (not a jazz artist)
Art Rock
Avant-Garde Jazz
Avant-Garde Jazz (a klezmer band rather than a jazz band; listed here for its members' documented jazz training and improvising background)
Bebop
Big Band
Blues-Rock
Brazilian Instrumental
Cape Jazz
Chamber Jazz
Chamber Pop
Chamber Pop (not primarily jazz; included for a documented jazz-scene connection)
Choro
Classical (not primarily jazz; included for a documented jazz-scene connection)
Contemporary Christian
Contemporary Jazz
Contemporary R&B
Continental Jazz
Cool Jazz
Country (production)
Cross-Cultural Composition (not primarily jazz; included for a documented jazz-scene connection)
Crossover Jazz
Disco
Dixieland
Ethio-Jazz
Ethno Jazz
Ethno Jazz (the band's core genre, Afrobeat, has no entry in this site's jazz-subgenre taxonomy; the terms above reflect its Ethiopian-repertoire and horn-arranging side)
European Free Jazz
Flamenco
Flamenco Jazz
Folk
Folk Rock
Folk Rock (not primarily jazz; included for a documented jazz-scene connection)
Free Funk
Free Jazz
Funk (not primarily jazz; founded his main project with a jazz bassist)
Gypsy Jazz
Hard Bop
Hebrew/Yiddish Folk
Hip-Hop
IDM
Indo Jazz
Jazz Blues
Jazz Fusion
Jazz Label Executive (signings)
Jazz Poetry
Jazz Pop
Jazz Pop (genre-crossing; included for a documented jazz-label signing, personnel overlap, and genre classification, detailed below)
Jazz Rap
Jazz Rock
Jazz-Funk
Jazz-Funk (Smilan's own catalog runs through reggae, dub, Afrobeat and Middle Eastern funk grooves with no entries in this site's jazz-subgenre taxonomy; the terms above reflect the Ethiopian-repertoire, horn-arranging side of Hoodna Afrobeat Orchestra, the band he leads musically, and his documented connection to Ethio-jazz through that band's 2024 record with Mulatu Astatke)
Jump Blues
Kansas City Jazz
Latin Jazz
M-Base
Mainstream Jazz
Middle Eastern Jazz
Modal Jazz
Moroccan-Andalusian classical music (not primarily jazz; included for a documented jazz-scene connection)
MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira)
Neo-Bop Jazz
Neo-Soul
Neo-Soul/Jazz Crossover
Nu Jazz
Orchestral Jazz
Pop
Pop (not primarily jazz; included for a documented jazz-scene connection)
Pop (not primarily jazz; included for documented jazz-scene connections)
Pop Rock (not primarily jazz; included for a documented jazz-scene connection)
Pop/R&B Vocal
Pop/Rock Crossover
Popular/Folk Tradition Crossover
Post-Bop
Post-Punk
Post-Rock (not primarily jazz; included for a documented jazz-scene connection)
Progressive Rock
Protest Song (not primarily jazz; included for a documented jazz-scene connection)
Psychedelia
Punk Jazz
R&B
R&B (not primarily jazz; included for a documented jazz-scene connection)
R&B/Pop Production
R&B/Soul
Ragtime
Rock
Rock/Pop (with a genuine jazz background; not primarily a jazz artist today)
Samba-Jazz
Ska Jazz
Smooth Jazz
Soul
Soul Jazz
Soul/R&B
Spiritual Jazz
Straight-Ahead Jazz
Stride Jazz
Swing
Synth-Pop
Third Stream
Trad Jazz
Trip-Hop
Vocal Jazz
Vocal Jazz (primarily an MPB singer-songwriter, included for a long and documented performing relationship with the jazz scene)
West Coast Jazz
World
World Fusion
World Music
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Lebanese
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Bassam Saba
Nay
✦ 1958–2020
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