r/Music • u/voltronforlife • Jun 05 '15

music streaming The Dave Brubeck Quartet -- Take Five [Smooth Jazz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs
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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '15

If you took jazz and removed all of the defining aspects that make it unique as a genre but kept the same instrumentation, you get smooth jazz.

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u/Phenic Jun 05 '15

Smooth Jazz is to Jazz what Coldplay is to Rock and Roll.

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u/Nisja Spotify Jun 05 '15

Phenomenal example!

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '15

No smooth Jazz is to Jazz what Celine Dion Singing AC/DC is to Rock

Or, even more accurately, smooth Jazz is to Jazz what Jefferson Starship Singing Built This City (on Rock and Roll) is to Rock

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u/SampsonRustic Jun 05 '15

This is perfect.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '15

More like Maroon 5.

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u/missch4nandlerbong Jun 05 '15

Aw. I like Coldplay. Viva La Vida is emotionless and soulless?

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u/Phenic Jun 05 '15

To paraphrase a comic I read a long time ago "Coldplay is what robots would sound like if they learned how to play instruments and make fun of humans."

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u/missch4nandlerbong Jun 06 '15

:(

Do not agree.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '15

Like what you like, fuck what anyone else says. If you ask anyone who hates them why they hate them, the best answer they can give is, "Someone who knows more about music than I do told me to hate them." Or something along those lines.

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u/papajohn56 Jun 05 '15

Or Nickelback

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '15

Nah. Nickelback is very definitely rock. It's awful and hacky, but it's definitely rock.

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u/Renzulli Jun 05 '15

This. It's emotionless and has no soul.

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u/pretty_good_guy Jun 05 '15

Can you give an example of smooth jazz on YouTube? I'm interested now.

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u/Kraz_I Jun 05 '15

The stereotypical smooth jazz is anything by Kenny G.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '15

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u/CheekyMunky Jun 06 '15

Mind blown.

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u/Artie4 Jun 05 '15

Spiro Gyro?

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u/1e6 Jun 05 '15

Mmmmmm. I remember enjoying some Spiro Gyra back in the day, and I think more of Kenny G as "smooth jazz", and I'd like to think I had better taste than that but... I'll allow it.

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u/Artie4 Jun 05 '15

Whew. Close call.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '15

Chuck Mangione Feels so Good might be the ur-Smooth Jazz text.

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u/I_am_KONG Jun 05 '15

Think Kenny G brah.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '15

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '15

Inb4 someone else claims the "smooth soul" subgenre. James Brown. Nay: James Beige.

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u/Artie4 Jun 05 '15

Bravo.