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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 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.
Quiet storm songs are a mix of genres, including pop, contemporary R&B, smooth soul, smooth jazz and jazz fusion – songs having an easy-flowing and romantic character. The format first appeared in 1976 but initially it drew from songs recorded earlier.
2023 Issue date Song Artist(s) Ref. January 7 "Nothing Ever Hurt like You" Mindi Abair [1]January 14 "Let It Breathe" Michael Broening [2]January 21
Toggle Smooth Jazz Airplay number-ones for 2021 subsection. 1.1 2021 number-ones. ... "Just like Music" Ben Tankard [31] August 7 "Sentimental Soul" Jeff Ryan [32]
Quiet storm is a radio format and genre of R&B, performed in a smooth, romantic, jazz-influenced style. [1] It was named after the title song on Smokey Robinson's 1975 album A Quiet Storm. [2] The radio format was pioneered in 1976 by Melvin Lindsey, while he was an intern at the Washington, D.C. radio station WHUR-FM.
2022 Issue date Song Artist(s) Ref. January 1 "Daydreams" Randy Scott featuring Cindy Bradley [1]January 8 "Urban Troubadour" Phil Denny [2]January 15 [3]January 22
Brian Culbertson (born January 12, 1973) is an American smooth jazz/R&B/funk musician and producer. His instruments include the synthesizer , piano and trombone . Early life and career