Sweet jazz

Sweet jazz is an early derivative form of jazz which adapts the blues-based harmony, syncopated rhythms, and complex arrangements of Dixieland jazz to a popular dance band format with a slower, straighter rhythmic framework which allowed it to find popularity with white American and European audiences in the early 1920s. Though considered the height of sophistication in the genre by some critics at the time, the sweet jazz style has long been criticized as inauthentic and generic compared to "hot" jazz, and by some later critics has even been excluded from the category of jazz altogether due to the reduced role of improvisation and the general lack of swing time.