Jazz Types
Swing Jazz Music
The 1930s belonged to popular swing enormous bands, in which some diva soloists became as famous as the band leaders. Key figures in developing the "enormous" jazz group included bandleaders and arrangers Count Basie, Taxi Calloway, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines, Glenn Miller, and Artie Shaw.
Smooth Jazz
In the early 1980s, a commercial sort of jazz fusion called pop fusion or "smooth jazz" achieved success and gathered important radio airplay. Smooth jazz saxophonists contain Grover Washington, Jr, Kenny G, Kirk Whalum, Boney James, David Sanborn, and Michael Brecker.
Punk jazz & jazzcore
The relaxation of orthodoxy simultaneous with post-punk in London and New York led on to a new appreciation for jazz. In London, the Pop Group started to mix free jazz, with dub reggae, into their brand of punk rock. In NYC, No Wave took direct inspiration from both free jazz and punk.
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