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Jazz Sub-genres are extremely lacking

Saxsinger	Date: February 9, 2007 @ 8:01 PM experimental' would be a valid sub-genre .. could we exchange the different forms of latin jazz and just group it under 'latin' and add the others? Personally, I have at least 3 out of the 4 sub-genres I listed and I've heard a bunch of other artists on Dmusic with material that could be classified under those sub-genres rather than 'jazz,general'. Please seriously consider this.
HenriRoger	Date: February 9, 2007 @ 8:09 PM I agree Afro Cuban jazz be bop hard bop standards fusion acid jazz nu jazz electro jazz vocal jazz free jazz world jazz experimental jazz elevator /airport/parking/dentist/ jazz
Saxsinger	Date: February 9, 2007 @ 8:18 PM be nice Henri... smooth jazz is a valid genre instead of elevator/airport etc. hehe
HenriRoger	Date: February 9, 2007 @ 8:21 PM right
Saxsinger	Date: February 9, 2007 @ 8:24 PM As I read.. shadowmom accidentally deleted my good first entry.. I originally had posted 'Straight-ahead', 'Swing', 'Fusion', 'Smooth', and 'Experimental'.. Henri has some other good suggestions too.. The ones that are sub-genres under jazz could all be under the 'latin' heading...
Saxsinger	Date: February 9, 2007 @ 8:25 PM the ones currently that is...
ChillinBuzz	Date: February 9, 2007 @ 10:52 PM dentist jazz?
ShadowMom	Date: February 9, 2007 @ 11:18 PM No, I accidentally deleted your FOURTH good entry. Who knew?
tracy	Date: February 9, 2007 @ 11:31 PM any more genre requests?
HenriRoger	Date: February 10, 2007 @ 6:40 AM Thank you very much Tracy I'll let you know if there are more genres ....
bmccosar	Date: February 10, 2007 @ 8:08 AM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jazz_genres Most notable on this list, but not included above: Soul Jazz (as in Charles Earland, Cannonball Adderley) Jazz Blues Gypsy Jazz (currently very popular with the local musicians in Gainesville)
Snoogans775	Date: February 10, 2007 @ 3:05 PM Is it not too much to name gypsy jazz as swing?
GeneHilbert	Date: February 10, 2007 @ 3:14 PM If you create too many sub-genres, regardless of style - it just makes it a confusing mess. We need less not more. Have the basics and screw the rest.....
bmccosar	Date: February 10, 2007 @ 3:49 PM Actually, in Gainesville, there is an entire subculture devoted to gypsy jazz in the style of Django Reinhardt. There are special acoustic guitar chord voicings and a particular 4-to-the-bar strum pattern similar to that used by Freddie Green. Narrow genres are a problem, yes. In some ways it would be better to have a tag cloud system. But, given the size of DMusic, this is an impractical solution as it would require retrofitting tags onto thousands of tunes. Then we all know the People's Glorious Revolution would begin
ChillinBuzz	Date: February 10, 2007 @ 8:10 PM custom genres, then nobody can complain, apart from murdering the database with zillions of stupid genres like "tincan hole in my bucket jazz" or "not quite crunk but crackin hip hop"
AdNauseam	Date: February 10, 2007 @ 9:23 PM i talked to Jack about this months ago. I suggested all kinds of subgenres but I guess nothing ever got done.
AdNauseam	Date: February 10, 2007 @ 9:30 PM *Dug around... here's the list I came up w/: Acid jazz Avant-jazz Bebop (bop) Bossa Nova Dixieland Calypso jazz Chamber jazz Contemporary jazz Cool jazz Creative jazz Crossover jazz Franchesca jazz Free funk Free jazz Groove jazz Gypsy jazz Hard bop Jazz blues Jazz-funk Jazz fusion (or just fusion) Jazz rap Jazz rock Latin jazz Mini-jazz Modal jazz M-Base Neat jazz Neo-bop Neo-swing Nu jazz Pop-jazz Post-bop Ragtime Ska jazz Smooth jazz Soul jazz Spank jazz Stride jazz Swing/Big Band Third Stream jazz Trad/"Pure" jazz Vocal jazz West coast jazz
bmccosar	Date: February 10, 2007 @ 9:41 PM Punk Jazz .. Hoodlum Jazz ,, Felon Jazz Covers .. Tired Old Covers .. "Autumn Leaves" Stride Jazz .. Sprint Jazz .. Run Like Hell Jazz Bebop .. Rebop .. Shoobedoobedebedop
GeneHilbert	Date: February 11, 2007 @ 2:03 AM A fuckin' can of worms is the proposal.......... If you play rock, it's rock..... And if it's jazz it's jazz. Blues is Blues....... Country is Country......
HenriRoger	Date: February 11, 2007 @ 9:49 AM 2 ideas : 1 / I submit a list with 10 sub genres , that dmusicians play . Afro Cuban jazz Be-Bop Electro Jazz Experimental jazz Jazz Funk Jazz Fusion Jazz Standards latin jazz Smooth Jazz World Jazz 2/ Use the jazz genre alone , then each artist is free to writte any sub genre he wants in the track info. Anyway the jazz charts page subgenre list is not good at the moment ....
Jazzmary2U	Date: March 2, 2007 @ 8:40 PM Yeah, Henri, but here's the rub.. if you subdivide to so many genres, you end up with maybe one or two songs in each one.. we gotta go and gather more jazz artist to this site, period..
celtaidd	Date: March 3, 2007 @ 3:16 AM Gothic Jazz Jazz with cheese Jazz and Pickle Jazz on Toast Jazz with Jazz Spam Jazz (Have you noticed, the more often you write the word jazz, the odder the word looks? ) Mmmmmmm jazz
Mojosnake	Date: March 3, 2007 @ 3:21 AM any room for mojo jazz sorry couldent resist
Distilled1	Date: March 6, 2007 @ 4:50 PM Gothic Jazz I like the sound of that... runs off to exprement with a gothic sounding jazz...
ChillinBuzz	Date: March 6, 2007 @ 4:52 PM ChillinJazz... Mojojazz... ShadowJazz... Jazztilled1... JazzHilbert? odd indeed
leflaw	Date: March 6, 2007 @ 6:54 PM expanded Summary of Jazz. Acid jazz Afro Cuban Avant-jazz Bebop (bop, hard bop) Blues Bossa Nova Calypso jazz Chamber jazz Classical Jazz Contemporary jazz Country Swing or (country Jazz) Cool jazz Creative jazz Crossover jazz Dixieland Franchesca jazz Funk Free funk Free jazz Fusion Groove jazz Gypsy jazz Hard bop Jazz blues Jazz-funk Jazz fusion (or just fusion) Jazz rap Jazz rock Latin jazz Mini-jazz Modal jazz M-Base Neat jazz Neo-bop Neo-swing Nu jazz Pop-jazz Post-bop Ragtime Samba Salsa Ska jazz Smooth jazz Soul jazz Spank jazz Stride jazz Swing/Big Band Third Stream jazz Trad/"Pure" jazz Vocal jazz West coast jazz World
celtaidd	Date: March 6, 2007 @ 7:56 PM Leflaw get technical now You forgot yodelling
Mojosnake	Date: March 6, 2007 @ 7:58 PM jazzontoast is still my favorite
PrincessTast...	Date: March 6, 2007 @ 8:17 PM Techno-jazz? Kraut-jazz? Psych-jazz? Jazz-ma-tazz?
ChillinBuzz	Date: March 7, 2007 @ 12:08 AM Techno-jazz... hmmm...
leflaw	Date: March 7, 2007 @ 8:31 AM Definitions: Smooth Jazz - Jazz for People who hate Jazz. Bop - Jazz for people who can't dance. Acid Jazz - Jazz for people who are ashamed to admit they like hiphop. Free Jazz - Jazz you get from Limewire. Etc....
HenriRoger	Date: March 7, 2007 @ 11:06 AM
ChillinBuzz	Date: March 7, 2007 @ 12:44 PM
HenriRoger	Date: March 7, 2007 @ 12:59 PM More jazz genres then listeners now !?!?!?