Smooth jazz is a term used to describe commercially oriented crossover jazz music. Although often described as a "genre", it is a debatable and highly...
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Billboard Smooth Jazz Airplay chart measures airplay spins on 15 smooth jazz radio stations in the United States. List of Billboard Smooth Jazz Airplay...
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Smooth jazz was a popular radio format that included songs by artists such as George Benson, Pat Metheny, Kenny G, Luther Vandross, Sade, Robin Thicke...
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"Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, January 6, 2024". Billboard. "Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, January...
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1980s in parallel with the development of a radio-friendly style called smooth jazz. Experimentation continued in the 1990s and 2000s. Fusion albums, even...
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used more chord-based improvisation. Cool jazz developed near the end of the 1940s, introducing calmer, smoother sounds and long, linear melodic lines. The...
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The following artists and bands have performed smooth jazz. Mindi Abair Gerald Albright Paula Atherton Gato Barbieri Walter Beasley Tom Colclough Steve...
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between honeyed smooth jazz and gripping pop—as its blockbuster singles, "Smooth Operator" and "Your Love is King," demonstrate. "Smooth Operator". Sade...
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over its fifteen-year history, incorporating smooth jazz, mainstream jazz, soul, jazz fusion, acid jazz, blues and rhythm and blues. In 1994, the station...
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from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Drawing on sources such as smooth soul, smooth jazz, R&B, and disco, common stylistic traits include high-quality production...
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WRME-LD (section Smooth Jazz)
Architecture Smooth Jazz Network, and adopting the name "87.7 Chicago's Smooth Jazz." Channel 6 originally broadcast still photographs of Chicago and Jazz musicians...
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WXZO (section Smooth jazz and talk)
In 1999, WXPS changed formats again, this time to smooth jazz. It played mostly instrumental jazz-flavored tracks with some soft R&B vocals. In April...
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"Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, October 22, 2005". Billboard. "Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, October...
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Contemporary Jazz Awards (Oasis Music Awards) are presented annually to recognize achievement in the Smooth Jazz Music format as well as Jazz Fusion and...
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Jones Radio Networks (redirect from Smooth Jazz (radio network))
rebranded as "Classic Rock", replacing "Adult Rock and Roll". Smooth Jazz Smooth Jazz Discontinued on September 30, 2008. Sports USA Radio Network Sports...
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WCHI-FM (section Smooth jazz era)
the station's slogan was "Smooth Rock, Smooth Jazz". "Smooth Rock" would later be dropped from its slogan. As a smooth jazz station, WNUA was a major...
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"Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, January 4, 2020". Billboard. "Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, January...
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Boney James (category Smooth jazz saxophonists)
Solid (2020) Detour (2022) The following hit number-one on the Billboard Smooth Jazz Airplay chart. "Complete list of nominees for the 45th NAACP Image Awards"...
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WUMR (FM) (section 1993-2006: Smooth jazz)
after playing "I Will Remember You" by Amy Grant, WEGX switched to smooth jazz as WJJZ. The first song played after the switch was "New Day for You"...
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Styles of pop music (redirect from Pop jazz)
1950s. It originated from black American music such as gospel, jump blues, jazz, boogie woogie, rhythm and blues, as well as country music. While rock and...
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"Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, January 7, 2023". Billboard. "Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, January...
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Smooth Jazz Cafe is the seventh solo studio album by guitarist Brian Tarquin, released in October 2014 by Cleopatra Records/Purple Pyramid. The album...
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WFYY (section Smooth jazz as WLOQ)
station onto his son, John. Through the 1990s and 2000s, WLOQ was a smooth jazz station. As the large national radio companies bought most of the major...
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band Jazzcore Jazz funk Jazz fusion Jazz rap Kwela Livetronica Mambo Manila Sound Nu jazz Nu soul Punk jazz Shibuya-kei Ska jazz Smooth jazz Swing revival...
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was an adult contemporary/smooth jazz radio station from 1987 to October 1999. In 1988, the station flipped to a new age/jazz format, and became known...
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subgenres of jazz music. Jazz portal Cook, Richard (2005). Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia. London: Penguin. p. 2. ISBN 0-141-00646-3. "Acid jazz (genre)"...
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"Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, January 5, 2008". Billboard. "Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, January...
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"Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, January 2, 2010". Billboard. "Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, January...
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"Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, January 7, 2012". Billboard. "Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, January...
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"Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, January 5, 2019". Billboard. "Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, January...
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