Distinctiveness of Jazz
Jazz as a musical style, differs because it could be sounded as folk but not folk, blues but not blues. Actually, Jazz may be resembled in RnB or known as rhythm and blues, but it only differs by what musical instrument is played. Besides, it is different because of the combination of American music and African music.
Today Jazz is being mixed with other genres like rock, Latin music, and this so-called hard bop and bebop style and others and this is called the Jazz fusion. Today, because of the evolution of the technology, Jazz uses some distorted sounds by electric guitars.