Straight-ahead jazz

Straight-ahead jazz
Wynton Marsalis (left) and Ryan Kisor in 2020
Stylistic origins	Swing music bebop hard bop
Cultural origins	1960s in the United States
Subgenres
Neo-bop

Straight-ahead jazz is a genre of jazz that developed in the 1960s, with roots in the prior two decades. It omits the rock music and free jazz influences that began to appear in jazz during this period, instead preferring acoustic instruments, conventional piano comping, walking bass patterns, and swing- and bop-based drum rhythms.^[1]