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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
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Soul
Soul Jazz
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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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Third Stream
77 profiles tagged Third Stream, A-Z.
Baptiste Trotignon
Piano
Bob Brookmeyer
Valve trombone
✦ 1929–2011
Bob Stewart
Tuba (early credits also on trumpet and flugelhorn)
Brad Mehldau
Piano
Bruce Arnold
Guitar
Charles Mingus
Double bass
✦ 1922–1979
Charlie Mariano
Alto saxophone
✦ 1923–2009
Chihiro Yamanaka
Piano
Christopher Hoffman
Cello
Daniele di Bonaventura
Bandoneon
Danilo Rea
Piano
Dave Douglas
Trumpet
David Amram
French horn
Eddie Sauter
Composition
✦ 1914–1981
Enrico Intra
Piano
Enrico Pieranunzi
Piano
Eric Dolphy
Alto Saxophone
✦ 1928–1964
Erik Friedlander
Cello
Eyal Netzer
Tenor saxophone
Francesco Cafiso
Alto saxophone (also flute)
Frank Zappa
Guitar
✦ 1940–1993
Gary McFarland
Vibraphone
✦ 1933–1971
Gene Bertoncini
Guitar (nylon-string classical and electric)
✦ 1937–2026
Gianluigi Trovesi
Clarinet
Giorgio Gaslini
Piano
✦ 1929–2014
Guy Mintus
Piano
Hubert Laws
Flute
J.J. Johnson
Trombone
✦ 1924–2001
James Newton
Flute
Jim Hall
Guitar
✦ 1930–2013
Jim McNeely
Piano; composition
✦ 1949–2025
Jim Pugh
Tenor trombone
Jimmy Knepper
Trombone
✦ 1927–2003
Julius Watkins
French horn; trumpet (1943-1950, before switching permanently to horn)
✦ 1921–1977
Keith Jarrett
Piano
Kris Davis
Piano
Lars Danielsson
Double bass
Leroy Jenkins
Violin
✦ 1932–2007
Leszek Możdżer
Piano
Luke Krafka
Cello
Makoto Ozone
Piano
Manfred Eicher
Double bass (early career)
Maria Schneider
Composer
Mat Maneri
Violin
Maya Dunietz
Piano
Miho Hazama
Composition
Muhal Richard Abrams
Piano
✦ 1930–2017
Oded Lev-Ari
Piano
Oscar Pettiford
Double bass
✦ 1922–1960
Pablo Ablanedo
Piano
Paul Lay
Piano
Ralph Towner
Guitar (classical/12-string)
✦ 1940–2026
Riccardo Del Fra
Double bass
Rob Clearfield
Piano
Roger Kellaway
Piano
Roland Hanna
Piano
✦ 1932–2002
Samy Thiébault
Tenor saxophone
Stan Getz
Tenor saxophone
✦ 1927–1991
Stan Kenton
Piano
✦ 1911–1979
Stefano Battaglia
Piano
Stéphane Belmondo
Trumpet
Steven Lugerner
Alto and soprano saxophone
Tal Mashiach
Double bass
Ted Nash
Alto saxophone
Teddy Charles
Vibraphone
✦ 1928–2012
Tessa Souter
Voice; lyricist
Toru Takemitsu
Composer
✦ 1930–1996
Tyshawn Sorey
Drums
Uri Caine
Piano
Uriel Herman
Piano
Vijay Iyer
Piano
Wynton Marsalis
Trumpet
Yakir Arbib
Piano
Yasuaki Shimizu
Tenor saxophone
Yitzhak Yedid
Piano
Yutaka Sado
Conductor
Ziv Taubenfeld
Bass clarinet
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