Vocal jazz or jazz singing is an instrumental approach to jazz using the voice. Similar to a cappella, it utilizes vocal arrangements to create sounds forming music, rather than relying on traditional musical instruments.. Vocal jazz emerged in the early twentieth century, with its roots in Blues.Popular blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey had a great deal of …

Trad jazz, short for "traditional jazz", was a form of jazz in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, played by musicians such as Chris Barber, Acker Bilk, Kenny Ball, Ken Colyer and Monty Sunshine, based on a revival of New Orleans Dixieland jazz, on trumpet, trombone, clarinet, banjo, double bass, and drums, with a populist repertoire which also included jazz versions of pop songs and nursery …