Fourplay News: Smooth jazz

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Smooth jazz, also sometimes referred to as new adult contemporary music, is generally described as a genre of music that utilizes instruments (and, at times, improvisation) traditionally associated with jazz and stylistic influences drawn from mostly R&B, but also funk and pop. Since the late 1980s and into the 1990s, it has become successful as a radio format. Despite its apparently large following,[citation needed] there has been something of a backlash against the genre, mostly from jazz purists who consider its recordings bland, overly commercial and not jazz....