Jazz festivals across North America regularly feature artists whose music falls outside the genre, but some musicians at this year's Halifax Jazz Festival are highlighting jazz's influence on the rest of pop music.

Headliners for this year's festival stretch across various genres such as folk, rock and hip-hop. 

Jazz can be heard in each one of those styles of music, according to one musician who specializes in the genre.

"Jazz inspires pop music and pop music inspires jazz," said Quebec jazz bass…