{"id":42723,"date":"2018-06-28T15:15:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T22:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/?p=42723"},"modified":"2018-06-28T15:15:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T22:15:03","slug":"new-music-for-paddle-to-the-sea-nobody-told-me-that-smooth-jazz-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2018\/06\/new-music-for-paddle-to-the-sea-nobody-told-me-that-smooth-jazz-died\/","title":{"rendered":"New music for Paddle to the Sea + nobody told me that smooth jazz died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/hybridhighbrow2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42658 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/hybridhighbrow2-300x72.jpg\" alt=\"Hybrid Highbrow\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/hybridhighbrow2-300x72.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/hybridhighbrow2.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I recommend a visit to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondinversion.org\/2018\/06\/27\/video-premiere-third-coast-percussion-paddles-to-the-sea-act-ii\/\">Second Inversion radio<\/a> for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondinversion.org\/2018\/06\/27\/video-premiere-third-coast-percussion-paddles-to-the-sea-act-ii\/\">wonderful video<\/a>\u00a0of the Third Coast Percussion ensemble&#8217;s new soundtrack to the 1966 Canadian short feature titled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/paddle_to_the_sea\/\">Paddle to the Sea<\/a>. It is quite something. The musicians deploy skittering wood blocks and water-filled wine glasses to create a beautiful nature-filled sound environment.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KRvmNPAYXfo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/paddle_to_the_sea\/\">Paddle to the Sea<\/a> was (and still is) about an indigenous boy who carves a little canoe steered by an elder, and then sets it on its way. The documentary follows the mini-canoe&#8217;s adventures as it treks from Lake Superior to the ocean, tangling with frogs, squirrels, ice floes, fishermen, and small children. It was based on Holling C. Holling&#8217;s 1941 book with the same name.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/paddle_to_the_sea\/embed\/player\/\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 560px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/paddle_to_the_sea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Paddle to the Sea <\/em><\/a>, <a title=\"more films by Bill Mason\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/directors\/bill-mason\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Mason<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provided by the National Film Board of Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile I am also reading with interest a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/entertainment\/music\/sd-et-music-smooth-jazz-nestor-torres-20180628-story.html\">San Diego Tribune<\/a> story that briefly focuses on the vibrant life and sudden death of &#8220;smooth jazz&#8221; radio. The article focuses on the flute work of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCIV082qDyMXTZACidg0Wr4w\">Nestor Torres<\/a> and his influences, among them the brilliant flute and saxophonist James Moody, who died in San Diego in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before the national smooth jazz radio format began to implode nearly a decade ago,&#8221; author George Varga notes, &#8220;Torres regularly received airplay on such stations, including San Diego\u2019s KIFM (which shifted to pop vocal-dominated programming in early 2011 and now plays &#8216;classic hits&#8217;).&#8221; Apparently in 2011 a San Diego smooth jazz festival cancelled itself due to lack of interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very ironic,\u201d Torres is quoted as saying. \u201cThe smooth jazz radio format is dead, when \u2014 in fact \u2014 there is still a smooth jazz audience. So the format is far from over. It\u2019s alive and well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, there are quite a number of Internet based smooth jazz stations out there, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smoothjazzflorida.com\/\">Smooth Jazz Florida<\/a> and, well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smoothjazz.com\/\">Smoothjazz.com<\/a>. But, now that I bother to notice, there&#8217;s an entire thread at Radio Discussions titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiodiscussions.com\/showthread.php?689537-What-killed-Smooth-Jazz\">What Killed Smooth Jazz<\/a> on the FM band. Prominent among <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/did-nielsen-kill-the-radio-star\/\">the theories:<\/a> that the format, which often softly plays in the background, could not properly send encoding signals to Arbitron&#8217;s Portable People Meter (later acquired by Nielsen).<\/p>\n<p>Others contend that it was just Smooth Jazz&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiodiscussions.com\/showthread.php?689537-What-killed-Smooth-Jazz&amp;p=6066376&amp;viewfull=1#post6066376\">time to die<\/a>:\u00a0 &#8220;The music got old, boring, and predictable. It became wallpaper music, like beautiful music in the early 80s. At one time, that format was getting big ratings everywhere. Then it dropped off the face of the earth. That was a long time before PPM. It has nothing to do with Nielsen. It just happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What I find interesting are the influences that Torres cites, James Moody among them. Here&#8217;s a Youtube of Moody&#8217;s phenomenal rendition of &#8220;Bess, You Is My Woman Now,&#8221; from Gershwin&#8217;s opera <em>Porgy and Bess<\/em>. It&#8217;s not a very smooth jazzy kind of thing, but it is gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/11aJVMu9GAE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last week I wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2018\/06\/18\/somebody-stop-killing-jazz-radio-please\/\">rather whiny piece<\/a> about the unfortunate recent fate of two jazz oriented radio stations. I can&#8217;t really say that I mourn the death of smooth jazz on FM radio, but I&#8217;m glad it is still treading water somewhere. There&#8217;s even a smooth jazzish version of Bach&#8217;s Overture #3 that I like.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2oxQLZcpSN0<\/p>\n<p>To steal a phrase from <em>West Side Story<\/em>, somewhere a place for smooth jazz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recommend a visit to Second Inversion radio for their wonderful video\u00a0of the Third Coast Percussion ensemble&#8217;s new soundtrack to the 1966 Canadian short feature titled\u00a0Paddle to the Sea. It is quite something. The musicians deploy skittering wood blocks and water-filled wine glasses to create a beautiful nature-filled sound environment. Paddle to the Sea was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5731],"tags":[5827,2619],"class_list":["post-42723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hybrid-highbrow","tag-paddle-to-the-sea","tag-smooth-jazz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42723"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42736,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42723\/revisions\/42736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}