{"id":4850,"date":"2016-05-03T11:02:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T01:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4850"},"modified":"2016-05-03T11:02:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T01:02:53","slug":"smooth-jazz-finds-new-way-to-reach-audiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4850","title":{"rendered":"Smooth jazz finds new way to reach audiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With shifts in the commercial music industry away from smooth jazz, musicians are finding new niches for smooth jazz such as cruises.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twenty years ago, of course, smooth jazz wasn&#8217;t a code to be cracked so much as a wave to be caught. Like most species of pop, it felt ubiquitous and maybe a little insidious, asking nothing more (or less) of you than surrender. During the summer of 1993, Kenny G had a Top 40 single, his second such hit from the inescapable album <em>Breathless<\/em>.\u009d Smooth jazz had an enviable infrastructure then; even a small American city was likely to have a dedicated radio station.<\/p>\n<p>What it didn&#8217;t have was cachet, critical regard or any trace of cool. (Kenny G has recently taken pains to show that he&#8217;s in on the joke.) This was a music forged by market considerations, less a coherent genre than a commercial format.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nate Chinen, &#8220;Smooth Sailing in a Sea of Evolution&#8221;, <em>The New York Times<\/em>, 5 July 2013.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/07\/arts\/music\/smooth-jazz-finds-new-ways-to-reach-its-audience.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read article<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With shifts in the commercial music industry away from smooth jazz, musicians are finding new niches for smooth jazz such as cruises. Twenty years ago, of course, smooth jazz wasn&#8217;t a code to be cracked so much as a wave to be caught. Like most species of pop, it felt ubiquitous and maybe a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[599,902],"class_list":["post-4850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-style","tag-jazz","tag-style"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4851,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions\/4851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}