LibGuides: Music CDs Genre Guide: Jazz & Blues

Jazz CDs by Era & Style

Avant-Garde and Free Jazz
Big Band of the Swing Era
Bop and Hard Bop of the 1940s-1970s
Cool Jazz of the 1950s-1970s
Dixieland and Jazz of the Swing Era
Dixieland and Swing after 1950
Includes Ragtime and the Swing Revival of the 1950s-60s
(See also : Dixieland and Jazz of the Swing Era ; Big Band after 1950)
Jazz - Fusion
Fusion could be jazz combined with any other style, but is generally described as jazz fused with rock. Examples are the Pat Metheny Group and the music of Miles Davis beginning with his Bitches Brew album.
Jazz of the 1950s-1970s
Jazz of the 1970s-1990s
Latin Jazz and Bossa Nova
Smooth Jazz
Relaxing jazz from the 1980s onward.
Vocal Jazz prior to 1950
Vocal Jazz of the 1950s - 1980s
Vocal Jazz after 1990
Recent artists carrying the torch for the genre, such as Michael Bublé.
Jazz of the New Millennium
Big Band after 1950
Includes the Swing Revival and modern Big Band

Blues before 1950s
Acoustic, folk-oriented blues, including the original artists of the Delta blues from Mississippi.
Blues of the 1960s - 1980s
Electrified and regional blues, including Chicago blues made famous by The Blues Brothers.
Contemporary Blues
Blues performed after 1990, including traditional-style artists and innovators.
Blues-Rock
The Delta blues inspired the early rock artists, and artists continued to reference this style to the present day.