Editing Contemporary Records (section)

{{Short description|American record label}}
{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Contemporary Records
| image       = Contemporary Records logo 1979.svg
| caption     = Logo used from 1979 to the mid-2000s
| parent      = [[Concord Bicycle Music]]
| founded     = {{start date|1951}}
| founder     = [[Lester Koenig]]
| defunct     = {{end date|1984}}
| status      = Inactive
| distributor = <!-- distributors, separate with commas or <br /> -->
| genre       = Jazz
| country     = U.S.
| location    = <!-- headquarters city and state -->
| url         = {{URL|www.concord.com//labels/contemporary|concord.com}}
}}

'''Contemporary Records''' was a jazz record company and label founded by [[Lester Koenig]] in Los Angeles in 1951. Contemporary produced music from a variety of jazz styles and players.<ref name="New Grove">{{cite book|last=Gardner|first=Mark|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, vol. 1|year=2002|publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc.|location=New York|isbn=1561592846|edition=2nd|editor=Barry Kernfeld|page=506}}</ref>