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When Dolores Gonzales moved to Spokane from Los Angeles, she didn’t miss the traffic or the 
hectic lifestyle of Southern California, but she did miss the music. “In bigger cities, smooth jazz is the music of choice for mature adults,” she says. So five years ago, she and a co-worker launched the Smooth Jazz Society of the Inland Northwest. Smooth or contemporary jazz emerged in the ’70s, pioneered by musicians like Kenny G, Michael Bolton and George Benson. “It’s a younger jazz with more of an R&B beat,” says Gonzales. “The reason it’s been so slow to catch on here is because there’s no radio station that plays it”/Cindy Hval, SR. More here.
Question: Do you like Jazz?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Escapee on November 08 at 9:57 p.m.
Smooth Jazz is basically instrumental music that's had the life sucked out of it. B-o-r-i-n-g…
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