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modern jazz
noun
- any of various styles of jazz that have evolved since the early 1940s and are marked generally by harmonic and rhythmic complexity, emphasis on chord progressions rather than melody, a tendency to draw on classical forms and styles, and eclectic, allusive melodic tags in improvisation.
modern jazz
noun
- any of the styles of jazz that evolved between the early 1940s and the later emergence of avant-garde jazz, characterized by a greater harmonic and rhythmic complexity than hitherto
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Word History and Origins
Origin of modern jazz1
First recorded in 1950–55
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Example Sentences
Camero and his congas were incorporated into the modern jazz movement of the 1940s and 1950s, spearheaded by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and other musicians.
From Washington Post
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