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modern jazz

n. any of various styles of jazz that appeared after 1940 [syn: new jazz, neo jazz]

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(I Got No Kick Against) Modern Jazz

(I Got No Kick Against) Modern Jazz is a 1995 tribute album by various jazz artists and bands from the GRP Records label. It consists of jazz cover versions of songs originally by The Beatles. The album's title comes from the lyrics of the Beatles's cover of the Chuck Berry song, " Rock and Roll Music", which was originally released on the studio album Beatles for Sale.

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Smouldering tenements and modern jazz bands, wailing across the ghettos like police sirens.

I want to be able to 'get' modern jazz without it all sounding like this terrible mistake, and I want to know who the Velvet Underground are exactly.

I've been playing the Modern Jazz Quartet's records over and over again.

Oleg would be there, the irritating portable cassette-player in his lap, narrow headphones at his ears, passing the time with Mahler and modern jazz while he awaited his arrival.

The music coming out of his stereo system was on an easy-listening station instead of his preferred modern jazz.

With the liquid movement of a ballerina, or the animated spontaneity of a modern jazz artist, not the laggard shuffle of a slow dance that was the best she could manage.