modern jazz

modern jazz

n (Jazz) 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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modern jazz - any of various styles of jazz that appeared after 1940neo jazz, new jazzjazz - a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles