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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]
Bob Baldwin; David Benoit; Alex Bugnon; Brian Culbertson; Eumir Deodato; Terry Disley; George Duke; Ronnie Foster; Jonathan Fritzén; Chris Geith; Tom Grant; Dave Grusin
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.
2022 Issue date Song Artist(s) Ref. January 1 "Daydreams" Randy Scott featuring Cindy Bradley [1]January 8 "Urban Troubadour" Phil Denny [2]January 15 [3]January 22
No. Initial peak entry Artist(s) Title Weeks Ref. 2019; 217 December 14 Kayla Waters "Full Bloom" 6 [1]2020; 218 January 25 Lisa Addeo "Listen to This"
Artists with most Smooth Jazz Airplay No. 1s [2] (as of February 22, 2025) 21 – Boney James 15 – Gerald Albright 14 – Richard Elliot 12 – Brian Culbertson 11 – Rick Braun 11 – Paul Brown 11 – Paul Hardcastle 11 – Dave Koz 11 – Cindy Bradley 10 – Nick Colionne 10 – Euge Groove 10 – Vincent Ingala
The first CD from the Weather Channel heralded the network's entry into retail music. The network's music had been a source of interest for viewers, who had written in for years asking where they could purchase the music played during the "Local on the 8s" segment, broadcast 288 minutes each day. The 12-song compilation features the channel's ...
In June 2001, after the bursting of the dot-com bubble, Yahoo! acquired LAUNCH Media, which was facing financial difficulty, for $12 million. [1] [2] [3] In addition to a website with music news and videos, it provided an Internet radio service that allowed users to create personalized Internet radio stations by rating songs selected by a recommender system.