XPost: rec.music.bluenote, rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz   
   From: steveco826@comcast.net   
      
   You avoided answering my question. Maybe you can't explain why smooth jazz   
   qualifies as jazz.   
      
   "The Enunciator"  wrote in message   
   news:1113566463.012218.240740@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...   
   > Even an old fart of the old guard like Nat Hentoff has accepted that   
   > smooth jazz is jazz.  And of course there are millions of other people   
   > across the planet who know that it's jazz.  And if you go to a record   
   > store and look for a smooth jazz record, you'll more than lilely find   
   > it in the jazz section.  And if you read one of the few jazz magazines   
   > still around, you'll find that most of them cover smooth jazz as well   
   > as any other jazz.  And if you look at at the jazz websites that are   
   > not style specific (eg, allaboutjazz), you'll find that they too cover   
   > smooth jazz.   
   >   
   > So it seems most everyone has gotten it.  Why haven't you?   
   >   
   >   
   > Steve Cooper wrote:   
   >> Well, as one who doesn't quite get it, please enlighten me as to why   
   > smooth   
   >> jazz qualifies as jazz. I am open to a reasonable explanation as to   
   > why   
   >> 'smooth jazz' has latched on to the term 'jazz' as a descriptor.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> "The Enunciator"  wrote in message   
   >> news:1113482307.823576.268060@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...   
   >> >   
   >> > Keith Freeman wrote:   
   >> >> > Some people still insist the world is flat.   
   >> >> On the contrary, it's 'smooth jazz' that's flat - lacking in any   
   >> > salient   
   >> >> features.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> -Keith   
   >> >   
   >> >   
   >> > You should add that it is flat - for you.  Just because you dont   
   > get it   
   >> > is hardly the music's fault.   
   >> >   
   >   
      
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