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r/Jazz

r/Jazz is a safe-for-work community on Reddit, ranked #822 on SubMouse with 1,291,511 subscribers and about 32 new posts a day.

Rank (SFW)#822
Subscribers1.3M
Growth since Nov 2+651
Posts per day32
Posts all time180.3K
CreatedSep 2008
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About r/Jazz

In its own words:

Reddit's home for all things related to Jazz.

Community guide

r/Jazz (#822, about 1.3 million subscribers) — Reddit's home for all things related to Jazz. A recent sample averaged 32 posts a day (~40% text, ~30% video, ~20% image). Its public rules include: No memes, advice animals, or rage comics.; No pictures of Text; Keep it civil.

What belongs here

Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Match posts to: No memes, advice animals, or rage comics.; No pictures of Text; Keep it civil.

How it differs from lookalikes

Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community.

Practical pointers

Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change.

The community was created on Sep 18, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 651 subscribers (+0.05%). It sits just behind r/babyelephantgifs (#821) and ahead of r/piano (#823) in our ranking.

What sets r/Jazz apart

Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (12:00 UTC) sees about 7.0× as many posts as the quietest (06:00 UTC).

Subscriber growth

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Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/Jazz climbed from 1,286,701 to 1,291,511 subscribers (+4.8K, +0.37%). That is about 94 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.

Top posts on r/Jazz this week

What the community upvoted most over the last seven days, as ranked by Reddit (collected Nov 8, 2026).

  1. Jazz legends in Swedish 1997 children's booku/Scary_Fault_6519 · Nov 4 · image
  2. I thought I didn't like jazz guitar, but I was so wrong. I love Wes Montgomery.u/AppendixN · Nov 4 · image
  3. Heyyyyyy Watermelon Manu/fixedwithyou · Nov 1 · image
  4. First Coltraneu/Original-Profit5490 · Nov 4 · image
  5. 10 Years of Black Focus by Yussef Kamaal + Black focus 2u/LUCABLADES · Nov 5 · image
  6. Underratedu/old_fashioned1982 · Nov 6 · image
  7. This Day in Jazz - November 3, 1957 - Rollins Played Three Sets at the Vanguard in One Day, and Swapped Rhythm Sections Between the Matinee and the Nightu/stnr_on_failure · Nov 3 · image
  8. First Grant Green album I own.u/wiggan1989 · Nov 5 · image
  9. Favorite free jazz albums?u/RaelGenious · Nov 1 · image
  10. Ahmad Jamal’s At The Pershing:But Not For Me was received with a mildly negative review from DownBeat referring to the recording as “cocktail music”.However it did have retail success and for me pers…u/MarsupialWhich8321 · Nov 7 · gallery

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/Jazz, from 2016 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.

  1. mr_pc, the new robot moderator of /r/Jazz needs some karma to bypass captchas. Do him a favor and upvote Mr. P.C.u/mr_pc · Jun 19, 2016 · 5,144 points · 370 comments · video
  2. :')u/metalfingerzz · Sep 13, 2018 · 8,728 points · 443 comments · video
  3. Flight was delayed, but a jazz band was on boardu/thpchyeaz · Jun 11, 2018 · 2,931 points · 156 comments · video
  4. RIP Sonny Rollinsu/TennesseeTom · May 26, 2026 · image
  5. You agree with Nina?u/Big-Explanation-831 · Jun 11, 2025 · image
  6. Miles Davis beaten up by NYPD outside the Birdland Jazz Club, 1959u/Sort_of_Frightening · Apr 13, 2018 · 2,207 points · 136 comments · image
  7. How I see the US as a European Musicianu/Kontrafantastisk · Aug 19, 2025 · image
  8. Louis Armstrong draws something on a punk's head and signs it, 1961.u/arsenpontius · Feb 25, 2026 · gallery
  9. An incredible color picture of my hero, John Coltrane.u/Fort__ · Jul 8, 2020 · image
  10. RIP Chick Coreau/MyNameIsRJ · Feb 11, 2021 · image

What r/Jazz talks about

We read the titles of 200 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “album”, “albums”, “favorite”, “music” and “live”. Other frequent themes are coltrane, recommendations, trio, guitar, love and november. Recurring phrases include “roy hargrove”, “john coltrane”, “bill evans” and “evans trio”. By format, 40% are text posts, 30% are videos and 20% are images.

  • album 12
  • albums 12
  • favorite 8
  • music 8
  • live 7
  • coltrane 6
  • recommendations 6
  • trio 5
  • guitar 5
  • love 5
  • november 4
  • fans 4
  • roy 4
  • bill 4
  • band 4
  • festival 4
  • quartet 4
  • called 4

Activity and best time to post

r/Jazz gets about 32 new posts a day. The public archive holds 180,255 posts and 1,280,686 comments in total, about 7.1 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Wednesday (39 posts) and the quietest was Thursday (24). Posting peaks around 12:00 UTC and is lowest around 06:00 UTC.

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Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 29, 2026 – Nov 4, 2026
Text posts 40%Videos 30%Images 20%Links 6%Galleries 6%

Rules of r/Jazz

The moderators of r/Jazz list 3 rules. In short:

  1. No memes, advice animals, or rage comics.
  2. No pictures of Text
  3. Keep it civil

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/Jazz and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.

Frequently asked questions

How many members does r/Jazz have?

r/Jazz has 1,291,511 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #822 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 4,810 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

How old is r/Jazz?

r/Jazz was created on Sep 18, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years.

How active is r/Jazz?

Very active: r/Jazz gets about 32 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 180,255 posts and 1,280,686 comments. In a sample of 200 recent posts we counted 172 different authors.

When is r/Jazz most active?

Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Wednesday and the quietest Thursday, and most posts arrive around 12:00 UTC, with the fewest around 06:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.

What is r/Jazz about?

The community describes itself as: “Reddit's home for all things related to Jazz.” Recent post titles often mention album, albums, favorite, music and live. Most posts are text posts (40%).

Is r/Jazz safe for work?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Jazz as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

How do I post on r/Jazz?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Jazz accepts both text and link posts, with images, galleries and polls enabled. It has 3 posted rules, starting with: “No memes, advice animals, or rage comics.”; “No pictures of Text”; “Keep it civil”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/Jazz.

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