contemporaries
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Rollins survived virtually all of his contemporaries from the 1950s and ’60s, the period in which the fundamental elements of the contemporary jazz that followed for the next half-century were established.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
Not all of their contemporaries were so sure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
In fact, it’s got more pop DNA than many of its contemporaries — just don’t expect the intricacies to come from Mother Mary’s music or her mythology.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026
The obscurity condemned by Johnson derives in part from Shakespeare’s readiness to draw on vocabulary that would have struck even his contemporaries as bewilderingly nonstandard.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
These discords, though relatively tame by modern standards, would have sounded shocking to Monteverdi's contemporaries.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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