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Borderstone · 08-03-2003, 07:40 PM

I guess I should have explained more in full. I'm talking about 80's style (so called) light jazz. I know what real jazz is but in the 80's it seemed like any AC song that had a mellow sax or keyboard accompnying it,was labeled eroniously as jazz. In that sense,true jazz has been (excuse my words here)bastardized and misunderstood. Real jazz is deep,emotional and moving,wheather fast or slow. The kind I'm talking about is misnamed Adult Contemporary. Radio programmers sometimes just don't know music from a hole in the record!

If they had called Gord's music then what it was,I guess I would have said AC,but out of habit I call it what they called it then. Guess I should stop doing that. It's been me,later!

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Borderstone (An,"Avid Listner" of G.L.)

08-03-2003, 07:40 PM	#15
Borderstone Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Phoenix,Arizona -America Posts: 4,427	I guess I should have explained more in full. I'm talking about 80's style (so called) light jazz. I know what real jazz is but in the 80's it seemed like any AC song that had a mellow sax or keyboard accompnying it,was labeled eroniously as jazz. In that sense,true jazz has been (excuse my words here)bastardized and misunderstood. Real jazz is deep,emotional and moving,wheather fast or slow. The kind I'm talking about is misnamed Adult Contemporary. Radio programmers sometimes just don't know music from a hole in the record! If they had called Gord's music then what it was,I guess I would have said AC,but out of habit I call it what they called it then. Guess I should stop doing that. It's been me,later! ------------------ Borderstone (An,"Avid Listner" of G.L.)