Jazz vs. Contemporary — What's the Difference?

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.

Living or occurring at the same time

A style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom.

Belonging to or occurring in the present

Big band dance music.

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

Animation; enthusiasm.

Belonging to the same period of time

Nonsense.

Of about the same age.

Miscellaneous, unspecified things

Current; modern

(Music) To play in a jazz style.

One of the same time or age

To utter exaggerations or lies to

A person of the present age.

To give great pleasure to; excite

From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous.

To cause to accelerate.

Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’).

To exaggerate or lie.

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

(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.

Something existing at the same time.

Energy, excitement, excitability.

(dated) A rival newspaper or magazine.

The substance or makeup of a thing.

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

Unspecified thing(s).

Of the same age; coeval.

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

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

Nonsense.

A person of nearly the same age as another.

Semen, jizz.

A person of nearly the same age as another

To destroy.

Characteristic of the present;

To play (jazz music).

Belonging to the present time;

To dance to the tunes of jazz music.

Occurring in the same period of time;

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

To complicate.

To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.

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

To distract or pester.

To ejaculate.

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.

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

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

Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk;

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

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

Play something in the style of jazz

Have sexual intercourse with;