Within contemporary forms of music ( sometimes referred to as Contemporary Commercial Music ), singers are classified by the style of music they sing, such as jazz, pop, blues, soul, country, folk, and rock styles.

Contemporary music includes e. g. a renowned metal music scene, in common with the other Nordic countries, as well as a number of prominent rock and pop bands, jazz musicians, hip hop performers and makers of dance music.

Contemporary Barbadian folk songs, especially through the pioneering albums of author and singer-songwriter Anthony Kellman, show a bold fusion of indigenous rhythms such as tuk and calypso with African, Latin, jazz and East Indian influences.

She has toured South Africa with jazz artist Moses Molelekwa, recorded with pop artist Talvin Singh and toured China ( with her own music combining traditional Chinese instruments and electronics ) with Jin Xing's Contemporary Dance Theatre of Shanghai.

In the 1950s, he recorded two solid albums with Sonny Rollins — Way Out West ( Contemporary, 1957 ) received particular acclaim and helped dispel the notion that West Coast jazz was always different from jazz made on the East Coast — and, in the 1960s, two with Bill Evans.

Contemporary cultural movements began in the city, such as the Amazonian pop art and Amazonian graffiti — with Pukuna 8990 being the most revolutionary graffiti movement —, Iquiteño music subgenres of electronica, hip hop, rap, heavy metal, French jazz, punk, psytrance / full-on, next to tradicional Amazonian music.

In time, the usage of the " smooth jazz " name was taken very liberally as WJZA shifted to a hybrid of Adult Contemporary, Urban AC, and instrumental covers, while the majority of WJZA's programming was soon derived from Broadcast Architecture's " Your Smooth Jazz " service, which chiefly operated under this hybrid style.

The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for works ( songs or albums ) containing quality contemporary jazz performances.

Contemporary jazz can mean:

She signed to Concord Records in 2007, and her latest 2008 release Stars broke the usual genre barriers, with her single “ Stars ” ( written and produced by Matthew Hager ) charting No. 29 Adult Contemporary R & R simultaneously with her single “ Smile ” hitting top ten on the R & R jazz airplay charts.

* Django d ' Or award 2004 ( Contemporary star of jazz )

As Billboard's # 1 Contemporary Jazz label for five consecutive years, GRP Records was the major forerunner for the success of the smooth jazz format.

Contemporary Records was a jazz record label founded by Lester Koenig in 1951 in Los Angeles.

Susie Ibarra ( born Anaheim, California, November 15, 1970 ) is a Contemporary Composer and Percussionist who has worked and recorded with jazz, classical, world, and Indigenous musicians.

After moving to New York City in 1963, Tchicai fell into the free jazz scene, co-forming the New York Contemporary Five and the New York Art Quartet, and playing on John Coltrane's epochal Ascension, and with Albert Ayler and others on New York Eye and Ear Control.

While " Take Five " was not the first jazz composition to use this meter, it was one of the first in the United States to achieve mainstream significance, reaching # 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 and # 5 on Billboard's Easy Listening survey, the precursor to today's Adult Contemporary charts, in 1961, two years after its initial release.

He has appeared at virtually every major jazz club and festival venue, and recorded under his own name for such record labels as RCA, Contemporary, Pinnacle, Blackhawk, Criss Cross, SteepleChase, Chesky, and HighNote.

Matsui was rated Billboard's number three Top Contemporary Jazz Artist for 1997 ( where she was the only female jazz artist in the top ten ), and both Dream Walk and Sapphire appeared in Billboard's Top Ten Indie Contemporary Jazz Albums for the same year.

In 2005 the group were awarded the awards for best jazz album and best jazz song in the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards.

The Pacific Jazz and Contemporary record labels were two of the best known that carried West Coast jazz, just as Blue Note was the biggest hard-bop label.

That same year, the band reached the top of the Adult Contemporary charts as guest vocalists on jazz saxophonist Warren Hill's debut single " Tell Me What You Dream.

Contemporary furniture that is neither Danish nor straight-line modern but has sculptured pattern, many design facets, warmth, dignity and an effect of utter comfort and livability.

Contemporary colloquial Cantonese has distinct loanwords from English, such as 卡通 " cartoon ", 基佬 " gay people ", 的士 " taxi ", and 巴士 " bus ".

Contemporary design practice has been extended to the modern computer, for example in the use of WYSIWYG user interfaces, often referred to as interactive design, or multimedia design.

Contemporary queer theory, incorporating many ideas from social constructionism, tends to look at sexuality as something that has meaning only within a given historical framework.

Jay Sean has a bit of a Contemporary R & B style to his voice, as well as a little hip hop influence.

Contemporary Islamic scholar Abdullah Yusuf Azzam has argued the hadith is not just weak but " is in fact a false, fabricated hadith which has no basis.

Contemporary chroniclers were mostly critical of John's performance as king, and his reign has since been the subject of significant debate and periodic revision by historians from the 16th century onwards.

A wealth of literature and artwork has been created in the 20th and 21st centuries by people aspiring to create " Contemporary Midrash ".

* David Coulter, Multi-Instrumentalist and Producer / Music Supervisor ; ex-member of Test Dept and The Pogues, has played Musical Saw on numerous albums and live with a who's who of Contemporary Popular Music: Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, Tom Waits, Hal Willner, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithfull, Tim Robbins, The Tiger Lillies.

Contemporary Paganism has been characterized as " a synthesis of historical inspiration and present-day creativity ", in this manner drawing influences from pre-Christian, folkloric and ethnographic sources in order to fashion new religious movements.

Contemporary paganism has therefore been prone to fakelore, especially in recent years as information and misinformation alike have been spread on the Internet and in print media.

Since the late 1980s especially, prose poetry has gained increasing popularity, with entire journals, such as The Prose Poem: An International Journal, Contemporary Haibun Online and Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose devoted to that genre.

Contemporary legal positivism has long abandoned this view.

Contemporary rhetorical criticism has maintained aspects of early neo-Aristotelian thinking through close reading, which attempts to explore the organization and stylistic structure of a rhetorical object.

Contemporary Japanese sushi has little resemblance to the traditional lacto-fermented rice dish.

Since the relocation of the School of Contemporary Arts to the Woodward's location, the Burnaby campus production theatre has been vacant.

The Vancouver campus has four buildings spread across the downtown core: SFU Harbour Centre, the Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue, the Segal Graduate School of Business and SFU Contemporary Arts at Woodward's.

For contemporary American English, work has stalled on the American National Corpus, but the 400 + million word Corpus of Contemporary American English ( 1990 – present ) is now available through a web interface.

Contemporary Dutch politics is more polarized than it has been in recent years, especially on the issues for which Fortuyn was best known.

Contemporary Scottish poet Marie Marshall has written a semi-serious ballad in parody of 19c neo-medievalism " How Finn McCool became Lord of Tara ".

Contemporary interest in the overland trek has prompted the states and federal government to preserve landmarks on the trail including wagon ruts, buildings, and " registers " where emigrants carved their names.

Contemporary scholarship has not decided the matter although it is generally thought Ealdred performed the coronation.

These include Alonzo King and his company, Alonzo King's Lines Ballet ; Complexions Contemporary Ballet, under the direction of Dwight Rhoden ; Nacho Duato's Compañia Nacional de Danza ; William Forsythe, who has worked extensively with the Frankfurt Ballet and today runs The Forsythe Company ; and Jiří Kylián, currently the artistic director of the Nederlands Dans Theater.

His work has been exhibited at the R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton, Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.