XPost: rec.music.bluenote, rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz   
   From: jcmartin@sonic.net   
      
   Melodious Thunk wrote:   
      
   > In article , "Larry Guichard"   
      
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   >>Though I love it, jazz has never been very main stream in music.   
   >   
   >   
   > Sure it has. As J. Scott pointed out, what's now called "the jazz age," and   
   "the swing era" that   
   > followed it marked periods when the popular music of north american was jazz.   
   >   
   > Nowadays, jazz aficionados tend to look down on popular artists who, were   
   they not popular,   
   > would be hard-pressed *not* to be called jazzers. "Rock" acts such as Sting   
   and Steely Dan are   
   > essentially jazz artists; and there's no need to point out how much product   
   Kenny G. moves, is   
   > there?   
      
   They're hardly jazz artists.  Influenced by jazz?  Sure.  Improvisation?   
     No.   
      
      
   > I've been more pleased to see the "swing/sock hop" revival than I have been   
   with modern "smooth"   
   > jazz; however the latter certainly has an undeniably high level of   
   musicianship.   
      
      
   Ugh!   
      
   -JC   
      
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