Why smooth jazz is not jazz

I Hate jazz. Its long, and self serving, and its 20 minutes of soloing. The main people saying that smooth jazz was hated are the people in the media, who successfully killed it, because the genre was making it hard to divide us into neat demographics. It wasnt black nor white.

Gay, nor straight. Old nor young. Male nor female. It included all of it. Radio wants pointed genres that reach specified Demographics. The way the labels try to divide if they see us all liking one style, is to take the whites and make the same music, and them make new black artists in the same genre, so offensive in appearance to whites , that the whites wont want to listen..

It was party music that all liked. Unfortunately whites still remained. Till this day, there are more country music stations in many markets despite the reality that country doesnt sell anywhere close to rap, in those same areas. Wake up. Like any genre, there are original voices, and then many who are deeply influenced by one or another predecessor, some good, some just OK.

Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Search uDiscover Music. Pat February 1, at pm. Chris Basten February 3, at pm. Mort Weiss August 27, at am. Chris February 2, at am. Salomon September 19, at am. Robn September 20, at am. Dwight Homer September 19, at pm. Nothing Rash about your comment.

JOHN February 2, at pm. Bob Gavin February 2, at pm. Smooth jazz IS jazz—just less filling. Frank L Campbell September 18, at pm. Ricardo da Mata September 18, at pm. Real jazz is never smooth. Please, respect jazz! Scott Dettman September 18, at pm. Wayne Land September 18, at pm. Celan September 18, at pm. Robn September 19, at am. Perry September 19, at pm. Scott Dettman September 21, at pm. If not, why not? Where is the line? Viktor Muerte March 1, at am.

Of course, instrumentalists such as Botti, saxophonist Dave Koz, and keyboardist Brian Culbertson are staples. Radio play is radio play, after all. Others are simply resigned. George Benson — the virtuoso guitarist with unimpeachable straight-ahead jazz bona fides has, over the years, achieved a certain equanimity about the label.

Music fitting the description of smooth jazz existed long before the term ever did. And, yes, fans ate it up. One Chicago woman strung together the infamous words when grappling for a description of a song snippet. The reason? Smooth jazz sales were beginning to dwarf the traditional stuff. They created music from the heart, and the format abducted them. Convincing listeners that if they like these songs then, by default, they like smooth jazz is an uphill battle, however.

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