The Death of Smooth Jazz Radio Stations

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Why Are They Falling like Dominoes? Jazz is not a music you can dance to; at least, not as a rule.

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markj

Fryeburg, ME

I was never a big fan of smooth jazz anyway (I think smooth jazz is for people who hate real jazz i.e. straight-ahead jazz), or dont understand it. I like music to get my attention.
I love all kinds of music -rock, soul, funk, blues, country, bluegrass, classical - but this thing called smooth jazz is boring their radio stations are boring too.
Two of my favorite real jazz stations are WBGO in New Jersey/New York and WWOZ in New Orleans -check em out -you might like them too.

Alto sax boss

“Genius + soul = jazz”

Since: Dec 09

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markj wrote:

I was never a big fan of smooth jazz anyway (I think smooth jazz is for people who hate real jazz i.e. straight-ahead jazz), or dont understand it. I like music to get my attention.
I love all kinds of music -rock, soul, funk, blues, country, bluegrass, classical - but this thing called smooth jazz is boring their radio stations are boring too.
Two of my favorite real jazz stations are WBGO in New Jersey/New York and WWOZ in New Orleans -check em out -you might like them too.

I totaly agree with you. Once you take out the spontaneous improv of the artist, then you no longer have jazz. Personally I think alot of the smooth jazz stations were really instrumental pop. It wasn't really jazz. As an artist, I am open to all forms of music, but my ear is tuned to straight ahead jazz. When I walk into a jazz club,:straight ahead" is what I expect to hear, not some cat blowing a Britney Spears tune on sax. Now if that is what a cat want to play, then it is his/her horn. But I would not label it as Jazz.

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