modern jazz

1. 1.

   any of various styles of jazz that appeared after 1940

   Synonymsnew jazzneo jazz

   Broaderjazz

Questions about modern jazz

What does modern jazz mean?

modern jazz means "any of various styles of jazz that appeared after 1940".

What is another word for modern jazz?

Close synonyms include new jazz, neo jazz. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is modern jazz a common word?

modern jazz is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.