Smooth Jazz Trolls

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Smooth Jazz Trolls
A promotional render of Chaz, the only known member of the subculture.
Species Information
Music	Smooth Jazz

Smooth Jazz Trolls are one of the scattered groups of hinterland Trolls of which Chaz belongs with. Chaz is the only Smooth Jazz Troll shown thus far, making it impossible to judge these Trolls. It is unknown if other Smooth Jazz Trolls existed before him, or currently besides him.

In the Trolls: TrollsTopia episode "Smooth Operator", Chaz claims he's lonely, which fully suggests that he's currently the only Smooth Jazz Troll, and in turn the only member of his Tribe, there is.

History

The only known Smooth Jazz Troll, Chaz, was summoned by Queen Barb to hunt down Queen Poppy after she glitter-bombed the Rock Queen. Barb promised whomever brought her Poppy would be given their own land to rule over and would be spared from Rock conversion.

After playing his music to hallucinate Poppy, Chaz tries to capture her, along with her friends Branch and Biggie. However, Hickory intervenes and kicks him into the water.

Chaz is next seen after the Trolls get their music back, where he plays his music towards Sid Fret. Carol then throws a spray cheese can into his saxophone, causing his mustache to get splattered in cheese.

Biology

Appearance

Due to Chaz being the only known member of the group, not much can be said about how Smooth Jazz Trolls generally look like. Even though, Chaz has some distinct traits from other bipedal Trolls that are unique to him. This includes his flowing hair, puffy cheeks and heart-shaped chest hair.

In Trolls: TrollsTopia, when he manages to hypnotize other Trolls into Smooth Jazz Trolls, they gain additional traits such as mostaches and chest hair, with Mr. Dinkles gain long flowing hair.Males and females were subject to growth of facial hair.

Abilities

Smooth Jazz music has the ability to mellow out all who are capable of hearing it and allows the Troll who likes it to also float in the air. But it won't work on a Troll who hates it, and can only affect someone who actually can hear it.

In the Trolls: TrollsTopia episode "Smooth Operator", Chaz mentions that child Trolls are widely known to be immune to the effects of Smooth Jazz, with Keith commenting how "boring" it was.

Culture

Not much is known about these Trolls due to their limited numbers.

Music

Smooth Jazz music is shown to be hypnotic and chill-out. In the Trolls World Tour movie, it has no lyrics, though in Trolls: TrollsTopia Chaz adds them.

The genre wasn't impacted by the Rock String overwriting the other 5 Strings, turning them to Rock music and thus preventing any notes of those genres from being played. However, Barb indicated herself that the Strings could still overwrite the Smooth Jazz Trolls' music, and when Poppy destroyed the Strings, they lost their music. The Strings themselves impacted all music, including that of the 6 Tribes and "everything in between", of which these Trolls' music counts.

Dancing Style

These Trolls haven't shown any dancing of their own.

Influences

Smooth Jazz is a commercialized form of the Jazz genre that emerged in the 1980s, intended to be an easy-listening style of Jazz music that could be played in the background of commercials and TV shows. It is a low-risk style of music that goes for pleasing results over experimental ones and can appear bland, but is considered a relaxed, chill-out style of Jazz.

Character Concept

Chaz, alongside all Trolls of the other minority groups of Trolls, were in the original plot of Trolls World Tour. Queen Barb wanted to destroy all music because she was jealous of the popularity of Pop. In her journey to rid the world of all music but Rock, Barb came across a diner in the middle of nowhere, where Trolls whose music lost popularity ended up. Barb offered an opening slot in her world tour to whomever brought her Queen Poppy. Chaz, or "Jax" as he was originally named, was among those Trolls, indicating Smooth Jazz had become unpopular and Chaz was among the few, if not only Smooth Jazz Trolls left.

Trivia

• Hickory's comment "It's enough to put you off of Jazz altogether." suggests that other Jazz Troll variants have existed or currently exist.

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