# Jazz Contemporary

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Jazz Contemporary
| type       = Album
| artist     = [Kenny Dorham](/source/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](/source/New_York_City)
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [Jazz](/source/Jazz)
| length     = 39:57 <small>original LP</small>
| label      = Time Records<br><small>Time 52004</small>
| producer   = [Bob Shad](/source/Bob_Shad)
| chronology = [Kenny Dorham](/source/Kenny_Dorham)
| prev_title = [The Kenny Dorham Memorial Album](/source/The_Kenny_Dorham_Memorial_Album)
| prev_year  = 1960
| next_title = [Show Boat](/source/Show_Boat_(Kenny_Dorham_album))
| next_year  = 1960
}}

'''''Jazz Contemporary''''' is an album by American jazz trumpeter [Kenny Dorham](/source/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](/source/Steve_Kuhn).

==Reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = ''[Allmusic](/source/Allmusic)''
| rev1Score = {{rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> 
|rev2 = ''[The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide](/source/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](/source/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](/source/The_Penguin_Guide_to_Jazz) |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[Penguin](/source/Penguin_Books) |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=393}}</ref>
}}
The [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic) review by [Scott Yanow](/source/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](/source/Thelonious_Monk)) - 8:09
# "In Your Own Sweet Way" ([Dave Brubeck](/source/Dave_Brubeck)) - 8:01
# "Horn Salute" - 8:27
# "Tonica" - 2:57
# "This Love of Mine" ([Sol Parker](/source/Sol_Parker), [Henry W. Sanicola Jr.](/source/Hank_Sanicola), [Frank Sinatra](/source/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](/source/Kenny_Dorham) - trumpet
*[Charles Davis](/source/Charles_Davis_(saxophonist)) - [baritone saxophone](/source/baritone_saxophone) 
*[Steve Kuhn](/source/Steve_Kuhn) - piano
*[Jimmy Garrison](/source/Jimmy_Garrison) (tracks 2, 3, 7, 8 & 10), [Butch Warren](/source/Butch_Warren) (tracks 1, 4-6 & 9)  - [bass](/source/double_bass) 
*Buddy Enlow - [drums](/source/drum_kit)

==References==
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