Review
- Konstantin Klashtorni - Downtown April
28, 2005 - New guy on the scene Konstantin
Klashtorni is working hard to dispel the myth that both the strength and the
weakness of smooth jazz is that it is almost exclusively North American orientated.
Yet it's a fact that beyond the shores of the USA and Canada, where radio play
is insufficient to fuel interest and generate record sales, artists miss out on
the opportunities enjoyed by their North American counterparts to pay their dues
and learn their trade as session players and sidemen. As a consequence, the sounds
are not heard often enough for up coming musicians to pick up on the genre. Although
UK natives Acoustic Alchemy, Peter White
and Paul Hardcastle have had phenomenal success in breaking this near monopoly,
further on into mainland Europe and beyond, smooth jazz artists who have made
it big can be counted on the fingers of one hand. More
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April
28, 2005 - New guy on the scene 
