Banyak sekali perdebatan di
kalangan masyarakat tentang smooth jazz. Kaum konservatif tidak
menerima kalau smooth jazz layak disebut bagian dari jazz. Bahkan
sumber yang saya cari di wikipedia, smooth jazz masih diragukan untuk
dikategorikan sub-genre dari jazz. Setelah googling saya menemukan
banyak hal tentang perdebatan ini. Contoh yang saya kutip di bawah
ini.
Jazz-
is an American musical art form created by musicians.
It utilizes a swing feel, features improvisation and uses more
complex rhythms and relies heavily on group interaction amongst its
players. Similar to classical music, it is a more intellectual based
music, digging deep into the musicality and complexity of
notes/chords/rhythm/time. At one time (30s/40s) it was the popular
music of that era. Today, unfortunately, it thrives mainly only in
academia, and relies on education rather than record sales to drive
its profits.
Smooth
Jazz is a label created by radio,
not musicians, to brand a style of instrumental pop/R&B music to
create a genre that is based more on image and showmanship than on
music content. It is simple, pop oriented, melodic, generally
non-improvisational “feel good” music, that has almost nothing to
do with Jazz. It
is not a sub-genre of jazz, like
Ragtime, Swing, Bebop, Cool, Avante Garde, or Post Bop, which are all
sub-genre’s within the jazz genre, each depicting different eras.
Smooth Jazz is not one of the Jazz eras.
Unfortunately,
there was a sort of in-between early version of smooth jazz in the
last 70s/early 80′s. Grover Washington, David Sanborn, Spyro Gyra
even Weather Report that still hung onto more of the roots of jazz.
But when radio and record companies decided to turn it into a big
money machine, they stripped out all the soul and content, and left
us with the new age elevator music that is smooth jazz today.
Dari penjelasan di paragraf kedua dikatakan bahwa smooth
jazz merupakan suatu bentuk musik populer yang dibentuk oleh radio.
Bukan oleh para musisi, dan smooth jazz sendiri merupakan pop
oriented dan tanpa improvisasi dimana jazz merupakan musik yang
mengandalkan improvisasi.
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