Jazz vs. Contemporary

Jazznoun

(music genre) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.

Jazznoun

Energy, excitement, excitability.

Jazznoun

The substance or makeup of a thing.

Jazznoun

Unspecified thing(s).

Jazznoun

(with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.

Jazznoun

Nonsense.

Jazzverb

To destroy.

Jazzverb

To play (jazz music).

Jazzverb

To dance to the tunes of jazz music.

Jazzverb

To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite

Jazzverb

To complicate.

Jazzverb

To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.

Jazzverb

(intransitive) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.

Jazzverb

To distract/pester.

Jazznoun

A type of music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles, but generally featuring intricate rhythms, improvisation, prominent solo segments, and great freedom in harmonic idiom played frequently in a polyphonic style, on various instruments including horn, saxophone, piano and percussion, but rarely stringed instruments.

Jazznoun

empty or insincere or exaggerated talk; as, don't give me any of that jazz.

Jazznoun

A style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands.

Jazznoun

empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk;

Jazznoun

a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles

Jazznoun

a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands

Jazzverb

play something in the style of jazz

Jazzverb

have sexual intercourse with;

Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music, linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage.

Contemporaryadjective

From the same time period, coexistent in time.

Contemporaryadjective

Modern, of the present age.

Contemporarynoun

Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.

Contemporarynoun

Something existing at the same time.

Contemporarynoun

(dated) A rival newspaper or magazine.

Contemporaryadjective

Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.

Contemporaryadjective

Of the same age; coeval.

Contemporarynoun

One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.

Contemporarynoun

a person of nearly the same age as another.

Contemporarynoun

a person of nearly the same age as another

Contemporaryadjective

characteristic of the present;

Contemporaryadjective

belonging to the present time;

Contemporaryadjective

occurring in the same period of time;

Contemporaryadjective

living or occurring at the same time

Contemporaryadjective

dating from the same time

Contemporaryadjective

belonging to or occurring in the present

Contemporaryadjective

following modern ideas in style or design

Contemporarynoun

a person or thing living or existing at the same time as another

Contemporarynoun

a person of roughly the same age as another