We Investigate the Soft Power of Smooth Jazz | PTFO

Forget hold music and Kenny G. Move over Michael Jordan and HGH. Smooth jazz — yes, smooth jazz — is the "stimulax" you’ve been sleeping on. From geriatric hotel ballrooms to the moneymaker-shaking high seas, correspondent Mickey Duzyj fights off the jazz police to report on the communal power of a comeback genre… then outs a closeted, world-champion super-fan.

• Learn more about "Smooth World": https://smoothworldfilm.com/

• Previously on PTFO — "Bird-Watching Will Blow Your Mind": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxoZKGHcjqA

("A New Day," "Give It Up," "Honey-Dipped," and "Side by Side" by Dave Koz and "Doctor’s Orders" by Phillip Doc Martin licensed with permission. Additional music by Jon Natchez for "Smooth World.")