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The mid- to late-1970s included songs "Breezin'" as performed by another smooth jazz pioneer, guitarist George Benson in 1976, the instrumental composition "Feels So Good" by flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione, in 1978, "What You Won't Do for Love" by Bobby Caldwell along with his debut album was released the same year, jazz fusion group Spyro Gyra's instrumental "Morning Dance", released in ...
Culbertson plays Mason & Hamlin pianos and Roland keyboards [9] and has appeared at the NAMM Show. [10]In 2013, he announced on his blog that he was working on his fourteenth album, [11] the album Another Long Night Out was released on February 25, 2014, and was going to revisit his earlier roots in contemporary jazz.
Peter White won the award for best Smooth Jazz Musician in the 2007 Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards. He was named the Best Guitarist at the National Smooth Jazz Awards for four consecutive years from 2000–2003. In 2000, White won three Oasis Contemporary Jazz Awards: CD of the Year for Perfect Moment
Fourplay (stylized as fOURPLAY) is a contemporary American smooth jazz quartet. The original members of the group were Bob James (keyboards), Lee Ritenour (guitars), Nathan East (bass), and Harvey Mason (drums). [1] In 1997, Lee Ritenour left the group and Fourplay chose Larry Carlton as his replacement.
Instead, I argue that smooth jazz is a long-lived musical style that merits multi-disciplinary analyses of its origins, critical dialogues, performance practice, and reception." [ 3 ] Acid jazz developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and was influenced by jazz-funk and electronic dance music .
Ben and Jewel Tankard receiving Stellar Award. Tankard's father was a minister and his mother a missionary. [1] In church, he played drums at an early age. [1] He played tuba in school and received a basketball scholarship. [1]
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.
Born in Hagerstown, Maryland, he graduated from the University of Miami School of Music in 1984. [1] Grove did not record his first solo album until 2000. Prior to that, he had replaced Richard Elliot in the Tower of Power when Elliot decided to pursue a solo career; he also did session work with various pop acts, most noticeably the Miami girl group Exposé.