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The smooth jazz format also added R&B; according to Cary Goldberg of JVC, Paul Hardcastle "brought a sophisticated, urban groove" to the format. She said, "Instead of bringing jazz to R&B, he's brought an R&B groove to contemporary jazz." [7] The smooth jazz music mix included 70 percent instrumentals and 30 percent vocals.
Quiet storm songs are a mix of genres, including pop, contemporary R&B, smooth soul, smooth jazz and jazz fusion – songs having an easy-flowing and romantic character. The format first appeared in 1976 but initially it drew from songs recorded earlier.
It avoids the improvisational "risk-taking" of jazz fusion, emphasizing melodic form, and much of the music was initially "a combination of jazz with easy-listening pop music and lightweight R&B." [1] [2] During the mid-1970s in the United States, it was known as "smooth radio"; the genre was not termed "smooth jazz" until the 1980s. [3]
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music, broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock, from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music.
Bob Baldwin; David Benoit; Alex Bugnon; Brian Culbertson; Eumir Deodato; Terry Disley; George Duke; Ronnie Foster; Jonathan Fritzén; Chris Geith; Tom Grant; Dave Grusin
WAEG – Smooth Jazz 92.3 – Smooth jazz; WKSP – 96.3 Kiss FM – Urban Adult Contemporary; WIIZ – The Wiz 97.9 – Mainstream urban; WAKB – Magic 100.9 – Urban Adult Contemporary; WFXA-FM – Foxie 103 Jamz – Mainstream urban; WKZK – Sonshine 103.7 – Urban Gospel; WPRW – Power 107 – Mainstream urban; WCHZ-FM – HOT 95.5/93. ...
Blues - Blues music from the early artists of the 1920s to present day. Jazz - Traditional and contemporary jazz mix that utilizes traditional jazz elements. Singers & Swing - big band, swing & adult standards. Smooth Jazz; Stage & Screen* - Music from film, television themes, and Broadway.
Urban oldies (sometimes called "classic soul", "R&B oldies", or "old school") Soul music; Dance/electronic. Dance (dance top-40) [7] Space music; Carolina beach music (regional in the Carolinas; mostly R&B and some pop-country with shuffle beat) Jazz/blues/standards. Big band [7] Blues; Jazz [7] Smooth jazz [7] Traditional pop; Easy listening ...