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A Smooth Jazz Christmas is the sixth studio album by saxophone player Dave Koz. Koz's second holiday album was released by Capitol Records on September 25, 2001. Features include David Benoit , Rick Braun , Kenny Loggins , Brenda Russell , and Peter White .
Bob Baldwin; David Benoit; Alex Bugnon; Brian Culbertson; Eumir Deodato; Terry Disley; George Duke; Ronnie Foster; Jonathan Fritzén; Chris Geith; Tom Grant; Dave Grusin
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A Charlie Brown Christmas (soundtrack) A Child Is Born (album) Christmas '64; The Christmas Album (Leslie Odom Jr. album) The Christmas Album (The Manhattan Transfer album) Christmas Blues; Christmas Caravan; Christmas Carousel; Christmas Fantasy; Christmas Jazz Jam; Christmas Present (Boney James album) Christmas Song Book (Helen Merrill album)
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]
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.
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 ...
Christmas Jazz Jam is a Christmas album by Wynton Marsalis that was released in 2009 by Compass Productions. Musicians on the album include Wessell Anderson on alto saxophone, Vincent Gardner and Wycliffe Gordon on trombone, Victor Goines on tenor & soprano saxophone and clarinet, and Herlin Riley on drums.