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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.
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
Grover Washington Jr. (December 12, 1943 – December 17, 1999) [1] [2] was an American jazz-funk and soul-jazz saxophonist and Grammy Award winner. Along with Wes Montgomery and George Benson, he is considered by many to be one of the founders and legends of the smooth jazz genre. [3] He wrote some of his material and later became an arranger ...
The Best Smooth Jazz... Ever! is a compilation album released in 2004 by EMI. It is the first jazz music part of the series "The Best... Ever!". Track listing
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
The Best Smooth Jazz... Ever! vol. 4 is fifteenth part of "The Best... Ever!" series. It contains more than 240 minutes of jazz songs.
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"