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Smooth jazz gets a bad reputation because, frankly, everything does. Anything that people like is accompanied by a certain amount of backlash. Popularity is in many ways the same thing as being disliked. It is impossible for any one art form to deal with all the different ways human beings express interest and approval. That is why there are genres like punk music, which is meant to be abrasive and expresses approval with emotional discord.

This explains why the disparagement of smooth jazz takes the form that it takes.Never heard of this before? Get [...]

Jazz is a very popular type of music. It is played in clubs and on radio stations around the world. Smooth jazz and traditional jazz are two very important types of it. Smooth jazz has a few traits that are unique and different from traditional jazz.

Smooth jazz is an evolved form of jazz fusion. It has traits in it that have come from exposure to R&B, pop and a few other types of modern music. This [...]

The Annual Capital Jazz fest, is being held for the 20th year in Annapolis, they set a high bar of excellence for this years Jazz performers. Last years festival brought legendary jazz performers such as Boney James, Herbie Hancock and David Sanborn to a crowd of tens of thousand of happy festival goers. Florida is well known for its family oriented amusement parks, cruises and sunny beaches, but not so much for the Jazz scene’s heavy hitters. Some of their up and coming performers are working hard to be [...]