"jazz" as a genre of music feels like it refers to so many different things that it's hard to use meaningfully :<

I want to learn what the sub-genres are.

@starkatt Yeah, "jazz" is kinda like "EDM" or "classical" (or even rock in the broad sense, i.e. including punk, metal, etc) in that it mostly just refers to an overarching tradition that leans towards using a particular set of instruments and overall musical ideas, with a whole bunch of genres within it.

@Thaminga Sometimes I think about how EDM and Metal are splintered into a bajillion sub-genres in a way that "rock" often isn't, and I wonder why.

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@starkatt @Thaminga the difference is that if you were to make subgenres of rock you'd have to name them all after increasingly obscure geological features and minerals

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