Contemporary Jazz is essentially a catch-all term for the various permutations of popular, mainstream jazz of the 80s and 90s. While those years were certainly not devoid of complex, cerebral jazz recordings, music referred to as Contemporary Jazz does not usually share those sensibilities, nor is the term generally used to describe music centered around hard bop or the avant-garde. Instead, instrumental Contemporary Jazz is usually informed by some combination of (1) fusion, often slickly produced, with an emphasis on…
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