ABSTRACT

Key styles include, but are not limited to, traditional (or Dixieland) jazz, swing, bebop, cool jazz, free jazz and fusion; recent years have seen renaissances for older styles and new fusions alike, from the ‘New Traditionalists’ of the ’80s to the acid jazz and hip-bop of the ’90s, stirring frequent debate even as they reinvent and extend the jazz influence across new generations (Music Central 96).