http://negative99.com/music/a-little-of-the-smooth/ An onslaught of expository excellence covering web design and development, politics and current events, faith and religion, guitar and music, programming... oh, and anything else. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:54:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://negative99.com/music/a-little-of-the-smooth/comment-page-1/#comment-495 Tony G Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:52:38 +0000 http://www.negative99.com/archive/126#comment-495 It's been a while since my days of playing in mediocre high school jazz bands that concentrate on the big band jazz, with some swing thrown in there. But I can safely say that I listen to jazz more than any other genre. I agree that jazz is the best music to play in the background. Kind of hard to focus on something with Ludacris' "Pimpin' All Over The World" playing. Being In southern California and to close to Mexico (and Latin America in general) we have several, how would you say, 'International' music stations. And with my Sirius Satellite Radio, I have access to even more. But They have jazz that is also totally different from the classic or smooth jazz of the U.S. I seem to find jazz grouped into Pure or free jazz, international, and then 'Contermporary' which is the same as smooth in my opinion. After listening to latin jazz, I totally agree that smooth jazz is not really for white America but 'Americans' in general. Sure, we can credit the African Americans for their early talents and creating the genre, but snubbing the newer smooth jazz as watered down, bleached out jazz is stupid. Perhaps we should just label jazz created in the U.S. as American Jazz and the jazz from Mexico or Cuba or Brazil as Latin Jazz. In future milleniums, it will be labeled as "Earth Jazz" anyway, when humans begin to colonize space and even find alien planets. Soon we will be socializing with Romulan music or Tattoine music playing in the background. It’s been a while since my days of playing in mediocre high school jazz bands that concentrate on the big band jazz, with some swing thrown in there. But I can safely say that I listen to jazz more than any other genre. I agree that jazz is the best music to play in the background. Kind of hard to focus on something with Ludacris’ “Pimpin’ All Over The World” playing.
Being In southern California and to close to Mexico (and Latin America in general) we have several, how would you say, ‘International’ music stations. And with my Sirius Satellite Radio, I have access to even more. But They have jazz that is also totally different from the classic or smooth jazz of the U.S. I seem to find jazz grouped into Pure or free jazz, international, and then ‘Contermporary’ which is the same as smooth in my opinion.
After listening to latin jazz, I totally agree that smooth jazz is not really for white America but ‘Americans’ in general. Sure, we can credit the African Americans for their early talents and creating the genre, but snubbing the newer smooth jazz as watered down, bleached out jazz is stupid. Perhaps we should just label jazz created in the U.S. as American Jazz and the jazz from Mexico or Cuba or Brazil as Latin Jazz.
In future milleniums, it will be labeled as “Earth Jazz” anyway, when humans begin to colonize space and even find alien planets. Soon we will be socializing with Romulan music or Tattoine music playing in the background.

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