XPost: rec.music.bluenote   
   From: hepkatreetaroonie@hotmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:55:26 -0400, "Steve Cooper"   
    wrote:   
      
   >You avoided answering my question. Maybe you can't explain why smooth jazz   
   >qualifies as jazz.   
      
   That's why he avoided the question. But, to be fair, for shallow   
   people who can't differentiate between life and lifestyle, it's easy   
   to confuse marketing with substance. It's easy to understand the cost   
   of things, but understanding their value is beyond a lot of people.   
      
      
   >   
   >"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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