I do understand what you are saying. But I just wanted to point out that there is some awesome music out there that is tagged with this label and shouldn't be ignored because of that. But sure, like any genre it is being exploited for commercial purposes.

And as Tonewheeldude points out George Benson is another fantastic musician that falls under this tag. In fact George has been playing great music long before the "smooth jazz" tag was even created. smooth ... yes ... jazz ... yes ... awesome ... yes !!!!