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Smooth jazz
Commercially oriented crossover jazz / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the radio network, see Smooth Jazz (radio network). For the radio format, see Smooth jazz radio.
Smooth jazz is a term used to describe commercially oriented crossover jazz music. Although often described as a "genre", it is a debatable and highly controversial subject in jazz music circles. As a radio format, however, it is clear that smooth jazz became the successor to easy listening music on radio station programming in the mid-1970s to the early 1990s.
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Cultural origins | 1970s, United States |
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