Contemporary Smooth Jazz

Contemporary jazz refers to two diverse subgenres of jazz: modern and smooth. Both jazz styles are critical and listener favorites with long histories.

Contemporary jazz is an umbrella term for the diverse array of new music in the jazz idiom produced and recorded in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. The umbrella term encompasses two main subgenres: Modern jazz and smooth jazz.

Several characteristics define contemporary jazz in its modern jazz and smooth jazz forms:

1. Crossover: Both modern and smooth jazz are noted for crossover by their artists between genres and music formats.

2. Diversity: Though jazz is considered a Black American art form, primarily populated by male artists, both forms of contemporary jazz feature artists of all races and gender identities.

3. Melody: Pleasing melodies are at the heart of smooth jazz, which favors simple, pop-oriented structures and R&B-styled arrangements, with little room (or need) for soloists

In addition to this, the origins of contemporary jazz are rooted in traditional jazz of the twentieth century and skew toward the genre-bending sounds of jazz fusion and avant-garde jazz.

So please enjoy our contemporary jazz shows – We aim to please you.

Resilient J

 

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