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I mean, when did "Acid Jazz" become "Neo-Soul". like....just like that, boom. That is totally illogical on the face of the evidence. It seems like a pretty clear case of a logical, linear multicultural evolution. But the word "Soul" brings it out of the global realm and into a very specific American frame of reference. Them Damn Dumb Americans at it again. Now we can has marketing and now we can has things to be ok that weren't so much before. There was a Monday interview online long ago (and long ago lost) where she said that when she was trying to get Verve to handle her releases in America that a BIG obstacle was that she considered her music Soul and Verve told her point blank no, you can't have Soul, Yellow don't have Soul. Call it something else.  And that's as close to an exact quote as I can muster these days. So you know, everybody all yeahyeahyeah one world coming together and all that shit, but the obstacles are deeply entrenched and incentivized to dumb down EVERY fucking thing. And so they do.    

I remember jazz acts a-plenty that I'd read about in the British papers, so I looked it up: so maybe you missed them on the nights you went (?) Well, they're meaningful to some folks out there - mainly because the crossover influences make the styles stray out of tight genres that some folks want.

Increasingly meaningless labels, oth, seem to be exponentially thriving!

Calvin Keys “Shawn Neeq” Black Jazz/Real Gone cd Arranged By – Calvin Keys Bass – Lawrence Evans Drums – Bob Braye Electric Piano – Larry Nash Flute – Owen Marshall Guitar – Calvin Keys

I don't know where "sub-style(s)" fit in this because it's this influence (influx?) of modern R&B meeting Soul with a hiphop groove with funky jazz instruments that makes it what it is ... and it doesn't have to have all of that in equal measures, so that might be why you were surprised to hear that Ocean might fit that style.