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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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Nu Jazz
44 profiles tagged Nu Jazz, A-Z.
Akira Jimbo
Drums
Apifera
Keyboards (Yuval Havkin/Rejoicer, Nitai Hershkovits)
Assaf Talmudi
Piano
Aviv Cohen
Drums
Ben Perowsky
Drums
Bertrand Noël
Drums
Big Vicious
Brian Charette
Hammond organ
Craig Taborn
Piano
Eden Ladin
Piano
Eran Har Even
Guitar
Gianluca Petrella
Trombone
Gilad Abro
Double bass
Herbie Hancock
Piano
Jason Lindner
Piano
Jimsaku
Bass (Tetsuo Sakurai)
Jongkuk Kim
Drums
Joshua Levitt
Tenor saxophone
Luca Aquino
Trumpet
Mark Guiliana
Drums
Marlon Browden
Drums
Matt Penman
Double bass
Matthew Stevens
Guitar
Michael King
Piano
Minoru Mukaiya
Keyboards
Monday Michiru
Vocals
Morgan Guerin
Tenor and soprano saxophone
Nicola Conte
Guitar
Nils Petter Molvær
Trumpet
Omri Abramov
Tenor saxophone
Otomo Yoshihide
Guitar
Panagiotis Andreou
Electric bass
Rejoicer
Keyboards
Rene Hart
Double bass
Ryo Kawasaki
Guitar
✦ 1947–2020
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Piano
✦ 1952–2023
Savannah Harris
Drums
Shay Hazan
Double bass
Shuzin
Vocals
Time Grove
Piano and keyboards (Nitai Hershkovits, Hod Moshonov)
Toru Takemitsu
Composer
✦ 1930–1996
Toshinori Kondo
Trumpet (acoustic and electric/amplified)
✦ 1948–2020
Yonatan Albalak
Guitar
Yonatan Levy
Bass
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