#jazz  a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
  supertype:  popular_music_genre__popularmusicgenre__popular_music__popularmusic  any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)
  object of:  scat_singing
  subtype:  bop__bebop  an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
  subtype:  boogie-woogie__boogie  an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano)
  subtype:  cool_jazz  jazz that is restrained and fluid and marked by intricate harmonic structures often lagging slightly behind the beat
  subtype:  hot_jazz__hotjazz  jazz that is emotionally charged and intense and marked by strong rhythms and improvisation
  subtype:  modern_jazz__new_jazz__newjazz__neo_jazz__neojazz  any of various styles of jazz that appeared after 1940
  subtype:  trad  (British) traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s
  subtype:  swing_music__swingmusic__swing__jive  a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz

No statement uses or specializes jazz; click here to add one.