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Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art?

So, I’ll acknowledge up front, I’m an engineer. Civilian and Warfighter lives can be in the balance depending on whether our company products perform as required or not. As a result, I try very hard to drive the entropic world we live in towards black and white as much as possible. I need to put order to chaos. When i look at art, impressionistic art requires a lot of mental work to make sense of. I just don't see it or get it, appreciate it or like it. I also find, as hard as i may try to enjoy improvisational jazz, that i don't get it, appreciate it, or like it. Instead, I love Realism art and instrumental smooth jazz!!
Reading from Audiogon forum pages for a couple of years now, i feel like i should feel inferior because 1. I don’t appreciate the free flow of expression that is improvisational jazz and 2. I love that there is a tune and thread in smooth jazz. I love the guitar artistry of Chuck Loeb, Chris Standring, and Acoustic Alchemy; the trumpet expressions of Rick Braun, Cindy Bradley, and Chris Botti; and the bass works of Brian Bromberg. 
I’m curious if there are many others out there that equate order (or lack there-of) in their music tastes to that of their taste in the visual arts?
Also, are there many other music lovers who would rather enjoy a good smooth jazz listening session than improvisational jazz?  If so, who do you listen to?
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stuartk
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@yuviarora:: 

"What if both are completely wrong?"

Can you offer an example of what "both being wrong" might look like?

I find it easier to see how each side could be both partially right and partially wrong than to envision both sides being completely wrong.  
edcyn
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Grab/sit down at your instrument. Take any tune. Flat the Five (the So in do-re-mi-fa-so). Linger on the Seven (Ti) and Nine (Re, but up an octave). Find a DJ with a very deep voice to introduce you. Make sure you carry two IDs so you can cash those enormous checks.
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estreams OP
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@facten; thank you for your list of favorite smooth jazz artists. I recognize and also many on your list, but am more excited to check out those i don’t recognize and suspect i’ll find some new artists to enjoy!

@stuartk; i’m curious to hear the answer to your John McLaughlin also.
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whart
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Sorry but have not read all the intervening posts. Interesting jazz, to me, ranges from the bass viol part on side 2 of "Marchin' On" by the Heath Bros on Strata-East to hearing yet another rendition of "Patricia" by Art Pepper, with Cecil McBee, Roy Haynes and Stanley Cowell. There is so much out there, and even with effort, I've only scratched the surface. 
Buying them as LPs is a thing unto itself. 
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yuviarora
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@stuartk The Left believes the election in 2020 was legitimate....The Right believes the Election in 2020 was Stolen. Both are wrong, and simultaneously right. 
The Election in 2020 was conducted, outside of the theatrics, exactly how all elections are conducted. The Counting machines decide who wins, and have been deciding ever since they were implemented. Evidence can be found in a documentary called "Hacking Democracy"(One of many many other supporting pieces of evidence). The same machines that gave Trump the election in 2016, took it away from him in 2020. The theatrics that the Republican side of the American population saw, were to further divide the public, and are a precursor to the coming civil war.
All elections are stolen, and All elections are conducted in this way.
Brought to you by the good ol’ CIA. The implications of what I am saying are tremendous.

I know, sounds fantastical, but this same principle can be applied to nearly everything you think you know about the world today. The Overton window limits the conversation to the Left and the Right... The Truth usually resides far outside of the 2 answers you are allowed to choose from.
Music, Art, Philosophy are no different. The rot has permeated everything.
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