Contemporary Jazz

Contemporary jazz can mean:

  • Jazz music of the current time period
  • A contemporary variant of jazz dance
  • Jazz fusion
  • Smooth jazz

Famous quotes containing the words contemporary and/or jazz:

    “Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?”
    —bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

    “The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance—Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, for instance, is always greater than its performance—whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being performed.”
    —André Previn (b. 1929)