Music Styles

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Most poopular · Jazz & Soul

Public votes set the order. #1 is the most pooped.

Bebop Jazz & Soul

Jazz played fast with dense chord changes, written for musicians to play to each other rather than for dancing.

Blues Jazz & Soul

Built on a twelve-bar pattern and bent notes, and the harmonic ancestor of rock and much of jazz.

Funk Jazz & Soul

Everything serves the rhythm, the emphasis lands on beat one, and the bass often carries the tune.

Gospel Jazz & Soul

Christian worship music with call and response and choral arrangement, and the training ground for a lot of soul singing.

Jazz Jazz & Soul

Improvisation over agreed harmony, so the same tune is never played the same way twice.

Neo-soul Jazz & Soul

Soul played with live instrumentation and looser timing, borrowing chord voicings from jazz.

Smooth jazz Jazz & Soul

Jazz instrumentation with pop structure and no rough edges, made for radio and, famously, for waiting rooms.

Soul Jazz & Soul

Gospel singing moved to secular subjects, with a rhythm section built around the groove.

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