Re: New Jaco Pastorius Album Released!

Date: 17 Jul 2003 01:10:31 -0700
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"JC Martin" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message news:<jTlRa.2413$email-address-deleted>...
> >
> > He didn't say it was smooth jazz, he said it was a "flat-out Pop/R&B
> song".
> > (It's also a song that disrupts the flow of the album, but I digress.)
>
>
> But what was his point in the context of the thread???
>
> -JC
I was responding to the comment that Jaco would "roll over in his
grave knowing he had been tied to smooth jazz."
My point was that Jaco would probably not be too upset about being
tied to what the jazz purists say is "really just instrumental pop,"
because he tied himself to something -- in fact, created something --
that was flat-out, unabashed pop. He wasn't afraid to cross boundaries
and record music that the purists might say is "too commercial," "not
real jazz," "pandering to the lowest common denominator," "really just
pop music played by someone mistakenly called a jazz artist," "not
jazz because it doesn't contain improvisation ...". In other words,
all the things the purists say about smooth jazz.