This is a list of genres associated with the jazz tradition.
| Jazz genres (Alphabetical order) |
| Genre | Characteristics | Era |
| Acid jazz | Combined elements of soul music, funk, disco, including looping beats and modal harmony | 1980s-90s |
| Avant-jazz | | |
| Bebop | | |
| Dixieland | | |
| Dixieland revival | | |
| Calypso jazz | | |
| Chamber jazz | | |
| Contemporary jazz | | |
| Continental Jazz | Early jazz dance bands of Europe in the swing medium, to the exclusion of Great Britain. | |
| Cool jazz | | |
| Creative jazz | | |
| Crossover jazz | | |
| European free jazz | | |
| Franchesca jazz | | |
| Free funk | | |
| Free jazz | | |
| Groove jazz | | |
| Gypsy jazz | | |
| Hard bop | | |
| Jazz blues | | |
| Jazz-funk | | |
| Jazz fusion | | |
| Jazz rap | | | |
| Jazz rock | | |
| Jungle Bop | | |
| Kansas City Jazz | | |
| Latin jazz | | |
| Mini-jazz | | |
| Modal jazz | | |
| Modern Creative | Combines older jazz genres like fusion, bop, and free with more contemporary musical styles such as funk, pop, and rock | |
| M-Base | | |
| Neo-bop jazz | | |
| Neo-swing | | |
| Novelty ragtime | | |
| Nu jazz | | |
| Orchestral jazz | | |
| Pop-jazz | | |
| Post-bop jazz | | |
| Punk jazz | | |
| Ragtime | | |
| Ska jazz | | |
| Smooth jazz | Combines jazz and jazz fusion elements with other styles of music, mostly R&B but also funk and pop music. | 1970s-present |
| Soul jazz | | |
| Spank jazz | | |
| Sri Lankan jazz | | |
| Stride jazz | | |
| Straight-ahead jazz | | |
| Swing | | |
| Third Stream jazz | | |
| Trad jazz | | |
| Urban jazz | | |
| Vocal jazz | | |
| West coast jazz | A less frenetic, calmer style than hard bop, heavily arranged, and more often compositionally-based sub-genre of cool jazz. | 1950s-60s |
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