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Originally Posted by Por_sha911
I started listening to Smooth Jazz or as I call it Jazz Light.
Rippingtons, Bela Fleck, Spiro Gyra, Yellowjackets, Craig Chaquico, Acoustic Alchemy, The Crusaders...
I can listen to artists like Miles or Chick Corea but I really have to be in the mood for it. Its kind of like a Grateful Dead jam. You have to get into the atmosphere they create more than the individual notes.
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You listed off some really good groups of what I consider to be the "real" smooth jazz genre... interesting you included Bela Fleck. I'm a fan of the Flecktones and have recently started exploring Bela's prior music... he has some really good pre-Flecktones tunes that boarder on the definition of traditional Bluegrass... the album "Drive" is a really great one.
As an aside, I got to see Corea and Fleck in concert together last year... It was an interesting pairing.