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:

    “The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn’t make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “He could jazz up the map-reading class by having a full-size color photograph of Betty Grable in a bathing suit, with a co- ordinate grid system laid over it. The instructor could point to different parts of her and say, “Give me the co-ordinates.”... The Major could see every unit in the Army using his idea.... Hot dog!”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)