I recently went deep and long on “smooth,” the one reviled musical form to not experience a re-evaluation (maybe outside of polka). You can read about it over at The Shfl. In the past few years, there have been some rumblings. Sam Gendel and his dozens of albums no doubt played a big part in a reconsideration of smooth, as when I first wrote a re-consid…
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