February 10, 2009
Eulogy for Smooth Jazz
There will always be a disconnect between the direction in which musicians want to evolve vs. the music audiences wish to hear. I once attended a Chuck Mangione concert at Atlanta's Chastain Park where the band's sublime 2 hour performance of classic jazz instrumentals was relegated to background music by an audience far more entertained by Chastain's wine-cheese-and-good-friends vibe - until, of course Mangione performed his 1978 smash hit Feels So Good . Before they closed the show with the song, Chuck angrily muttered into the mic, 'Thanks to you people, this song put my daughter through college.'With more smooth jazz stations closing everyday (WQCD in New York, WJZZ in Atlanta, WLVE in Miami and many more) I mourn the loss of what seemed like the best marriage of cultural needs and musical chops since David Lee Roth drank his first whiskey shot with Eddie Van Halen. Like 80's glam rock, smooth jazz has been a great way for musical virtuosity to hide in plain sight.
Behind all the Muzak steaminess of Joe Sample's Seven Years of Good Luck (1989) is an L.A. studio musician who's recorded with the likes of Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, B.B. King, and Marvin Gaye.
Behind the polished, predictability of saxophonist Eric Marienthal's Blue Water (2007) is a Berklee grad who's encyclopedic mastery of the bebop language is featured on 2 Grammy-winning recordings by jazz legend Chick Corea ( To the Stars -2004 and GRP Super Live In Concert -1990).
For RoyaltyFreeMusic.com subscribers who wish to download stock music and keep smooth jazz alive on telephones lines everywhere, I recommend this album for musiconhold : Smooth Jazz #4 (#RFM1295) .
But if you're interested in the musical genre we feel is behind the dethroning of smooth jazz, download royalty free music that is the lush, minimalistic electronic soundscapes composed by Juan Sanchez on Ambient/Chill (#SCUND01) .
-Mike Bielenberg
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago on February 10, 2009
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