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The Weather Channel Presents: The Best of Smooth Jazz is a 2007 compilation release by Midas Records. It peaked at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Contemporary Jazz charts in the same year. [1] The first CD from the Weather Channel heralded the network's entry into retail music.
2024 Issue date Song Artist(s) Ref. January 6 "South Bay" Michael Lington [1]January 13 [2]January 20 [3]January 27 [4]February 3 "My Heart to Yours" Ellis Hamilton
Smooth jazz as a radio format has its roots in the construction of what were once called "beautiful music" stations, which generally played fifteen-minute sets consisting of instrumentals bookending a vocal song or two. The incubators of the format were specialty shows at night or on the weekends, in places such as Atlanta (WQXI-FM and WVEE-FM ...
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"
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]
2021 Issue date Song Artist(s) Ref. January 2 "Better Days Ahead" Gerald Albright [1]January 9 [2]January 16 [3]January 23 "Blue Moon" Skinny Hightower
2020 Issue date Song Artist(s) Ref. January 4 "Full Bloom" Kayla Waters [1]January 11 [2]January 18 [3]January 25 "Listen to This" Lisa Addeo [4]February 1
Dean Martin – "Dream a Little Dream of Me"; Chet Baker – "I Fall In Love Too Easily"; Danny Williams – "I’ve Got You Under My Skin"; Dinah Washington – "Lover Man"; Matt Monro – "What A Wonderful World"