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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]
Smooth Jazz Cafe is the seventh solo studio album by guitarist Brian Tarquin, released in October 2014 by Cleopatra Records/Purple Pyramid. The album was recorded at Tarquin's mobile Jungle Room Studios in the New York Catskill Mountains at a 200 year old Farmhouse.
[28] Music Week ranked the song number-one in their Top 10 list, "Pick of the Year – Dance". [29] Diane Tameecha from The Network Forty felt the connection of Vega's "sensuously soft voice and the unlikely rhythm (for her music, anyway) is startlingly vibrant, and its jazziness is an instant ear-catcher."
"Sincerity Is Scary" was released as a single on 13 September 2018; the song was met with generally positive reviews from contemporary music critics. [20] Chris DeVille of Stereogum deemed "Sincerity Is Scary" the 15th-best pop song of 2018, [27] while Frazier Tharpe of Complex declared it the fifth-best song of the year. [28]
"Just like Music" Ben Tankard [31] August 7 "Sentimental Soul" Jeff Ryan [32] August 14 "Keys to Paradise" Jonathan Fritzén [33] August 21 "Summer Song" Paula Atherton featuring Nathan Mitchell [34] August 28 [35] September 4 "Release" Lin Rountree [36] September 11 "Living Out Loud" Steve Cole [37] September 18 "Midnight Sun" Darren Rahn [38 ...
A reversed message in Fred Schneider's voice, starting at the 4:35 mark. Quoted in Patterson (2004): "The B-52s used the same approach at subliminal humor by placing a backward track on 'Detour Through Your Mind' from the LP Bouncing off the Satellites. When the track is reversed, the listener can hear Fred Schneider’s voice saying, 'I buried ...
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.
Smooth R&B is mellow R&B. Smooth jazz - a mellower type of jazz, similar to R&B. Slow jam - a ballad commonly marketed as R&B; sometimes has overlap with smooth jazz. Urban adult contemporary - a radio format consisting mostly of R&B music. Some radio stations use "Smooth R&B" as their branding or tagline.