{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Jazz Contemporary | type = Album | artist = Kenny Dorham | cover = Jazz Contemporary.jpg | alt = | released = End of June 1960<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cR8EAAAAMBAJ&dq=Jazz+Contemporary+Kenny+Dorham&pg=PA40 ''Billboard'' July 4, 1960]</ref> | recorded = February 11–12, 1960<br>New York City | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 39:57 <small>original LP</small> | label = Time Records<br><small>Time 52004</small> | producer = Bob Shad | chronology = Kenny Dorham | prev_title = The Kenny Dorham Memorial Album | prev_year = 1960 | next_title = Show Boat | next_year = 1960 }}
'''''Jazz Contemporary''''' is an album by American jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham featuring performances recorded in 1960 and released on the Time label.<ref name="Kenny Dorham discography">[http://www.jazzdisco.org/kenny-dorham/catalog/#time-m-52004 Kenny Dorham discography] accessed October 7, 2010</ref> The album features the recording debut of pianist Steve Kuhn.
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Allmusic'' | rev1Score = {{rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev2 = ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' | rev2Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | author-link = | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = 64 }}</ref> |rev3 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev3score = {{Rating|3|4}} <ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=393}}</ref> }} The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 2½ stars and stated "The results are not quite essential but everyone plays up to par... It's fine hard bop, the modern mainstream music of the period".<ref name="Allmusic">Yanow, S. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000320205|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review] accessed September 28, 2018</ref>
==Track listing== :''All compositions by Kenny Dorham except as indicated''
# "A Waltz" - 5:34 # "Monk's Mood" (Thelonious Monk) - 8:09 # "In Your Own Sweet Way" (Dave Brubeck) - 8:01 # "Horn Salute" - 8:27 # "Tonica" - 2:57 # "This Love of Mine" (Sol Parker, Henry W. Sanicola Jr., Frank Sinatra) - 6:49
<small>'''Bonus tracks on CD reissue:'''</small> #<li value=7>"Sign Off" - 5:29 #"A Waltz" [alternate take] - 5:36 #"Monk's Mood" [alternate take] (Monk) - 2:53 #"This Love of Mine" [alternate take] (Parker, Sanicola, Sinatra) - 7:55
''Recorded on February 11 (tracks 2, 3, 7, 8, 10) and February 12, 1960 (tracks 1, 4-6, 9).''
==Personnel== *Kenny Dorham - trumpet *Charles Davis - baritone saxophone *Steve Kuhn - piano *Jimmy Garrison (tracks 2, 3, 7, 8 & 10), Butch Warren (tracks 1, 4-6 & 9) - bass *Buddy Enlow - drums
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