Smooth Jazz

rooster241 · 06-06-2015, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Necromancer

I understand your point concerning the difference between smooth jazz and traditional free jazz.
Of course smooth jazz contains elements of pop music.
Rock and roll and metal music can also be classified in the mainstream, as pop music as well.
Jazz fusion is also more appealing to me personally than most of the traditional freestyle jazz also.

when I'm listening to the radio while driving in the car, or whenever the mood strikes me. Its mostly smooth jazz I listen to, in comparison to other stations.
I will agree with you that a lot of smooth jazz songs are pop orientated. but at the same time, a lot of smooth jazz atist and their music is outstanding jazz orientated music that relaxes the soul and mind for me.

I thank you, Necromancer, for taking the time to Actually write something and not just respond with a Video Clip.

You are correct that "Rock & Roll" and "Metal" (among others) can be classified as "Pop" music, but i think there is a bit of stylistic difference between those types and "smooth jazz" that separates them both as "pop". that is to say, while both "Rock a & Roll" and "smooth jazz" can be pop, you wouldn't put "metal" and 'smooth jazz" into the same pop category, would you?

I'm not sure what you mean by "traditional free jazz" and "traditional freestyle jazz".

The "Jazz Fusion" of the 1970's is probably the closest thing to "smooth jazz" in the "Jazz" world. "smooth jazz" is "pop music" for the reasons I listed above, a decided lack of polyrhythms, rhythmic syncopation, improvisation, group interaction and creativity.

In summation, I would like to point out that I never said that people shouldn't like or listen to smooth jazz if that's what they want. My main point in all this has been and remains that smooth jazz is a misnomer and that a discussion of it would be better served in a pop thread as it really doesn't belong in a thread dedicated to Jazz and Blues

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