Playboy Jazz Festival

I have never had the desire to attend the Playboy Jazz Festival, for the exact reason Leonard Feather outlined: too much pop music (“It’s Time to Jazz Up Playboy’s Festival,” June 9).

The music industry is willing to compromise the integrity of an established idiom just to sell records. It is an insult to the jazz community for the record labels to call certain types of music “jazz.” Any musician who understands chord progression and harmony knows that Kenny G, for example, is nothing more than instrumental pop music.

Is it fair to mislead the public like this?

DAN ST. MARSEILLE

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