From: coolaidcb13@yahoo.com   
      
   I don't care if ya like the smooth jazz or not. I think it takes a   
   certain kind of person to listen to smooth jazz. It also takes a   
   certain kind of person to listen to the Eagles :-\ yuck   
      
   Smooth Jazz IS a bad thing. There is nothing GOOD about smooth jazz.   
   Smooth Jazz isn't even jazzy, so why have 'jazz' in the title at all?   
      
   I saw Larry Carlton on Studio Jamz with Joey DeFrancesco... it was   
   decent, but I think Sleepwalk was probably the last Larry Carlton   
   album that I could stomach listening to.   
      
   The funny thing is, everyone has their own definition of smooth jazz.   
   I hear a lot of cats referring to the some of the popular Crossover   
   Jazz of the 80's as Smooth Jazz. I was there (barely), I remember, and   
   no that's not smooth jazz. Just to remind everyone who has   
   forgotten... The term "smooth jazz" wasn't invented until the early to   
   mid 90's. Before that, all contemporary jazz stations simply referred   
   to their format as Jazz. Their playlists tended to include a good   
   mixture of old an new jazz, maybe some fusion, maybe some bop... you   
   never knew. Jazz stations prided themselves on their extensive and   
   rare collections of vinyl. Now you turn on your radio and you hear the   
   same 20 songs by the same 20 hacks, played over and over... with the   
   same black chick singing "smooooooooth jaaaaaaaazzzzzzz *insert call   
   letters here*"   
      
   I remember standing in the Atlanta greyhound bus terminal one cold   
   rainy morning, being mocked by the loudspeakers. They were playing the   
   local smooth jazz station, and the sweepers in-between songs were   
   identical to the sweepers on the local station here. I almost threw   
   up... but that could have been the smell of the bus station.   
      
   Cedric   
      
      
      
      
   On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:32:06 +0200, "Roger Mexico"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >And what a powerful and evil man this Smooth Jazz is! I remember when he   
   >stole my girl!! Drug her all around the world! I'm through with Smooth Jazz.   
   >Yes, I'm through with Smooth Jazz.   
   >   
   >A-and yes, let's bring back that hard rocking jazz purist Larry Carlton.   
   >Yeah, no Smooth Jazz there. Larry, these days, makes 70's Miles sound like   
   >Barry Manilow on Prozac. Come on, guys.   
   >   
   >Roger. And out.   
   >   
      
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