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Smooth Jazz Satellite Sirius XM Satellite Radio N/A N/A Website: WAEG: 92.3 MHz Smooth Jazz Terrestrial Perry Broadcasting: Evans Georgia (U.S. state) Website: WAJH: 91.1 MHz Smooth Jazz Terrestrial Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame: Birmingham Alabama: Website: WBGO: 88.3 MHz Mainstream Terrestrial Newark Public Radio Newark New Jersey: Website: WBRH ...
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 controversial subject in jazz music circles. As a radio format, however, it is clear that smooth jazz became the successor to easy listening music on radio station programming in the mid-1970s to ...
Diane Joan Schuur (born December 10, 1953), nicknamed " Deedles ", is an American jazz singer and pianist. As of 2015, Schuur had released 23 albums, and had extended her jazz repertoire to include essences of Latin, gospel, pop and country music. Her most successful album is Diane Schuur & the Count Basie Orchestra, which remained number one ...
Hubert Laws (born November 10, 1939) [1] is an American flutist and saxophonist with a career spanning over 50 years in jazz, classical, and other music genres.Laws is one of the few classical artists who has also mastered jazz, pop, and rhythm-and-blues genres, moving effortlessly from one repertory to another. [2]
Bluebird. King. Bluesville. Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson (February 8, 1899 [1][2] – June 16, 1970) was an American blues and jazz singer, guitarist, violinist and songwriter. He was a pioneer of jazz guitar and jazz violin and is recognized as the first to play an electrically amplified violin. [3][4]
Impressions (instrumental composition) " Impressions " is a jazz standard composed by John Coltrane. Coltrane only recorded the composition during two studio dates—on June 20, 1962 and March 6, 1963. [1][2] The 1962 recordings were released on the 2002 deluxe edition of the 1962 album Coltrane and elsewhere. [3]
avant-garde jazz. free improvisation. Spiritual jazz (or astral jazz) [1] is a sub-genre of jazz that originated in the United States during the 1960s. The genre is hard to characterize musically but draws from free, avant-garde and modal jazz and thematically focuses on transcendence and spirituality. [2][3] John Coltrane 's 1965 album A Love ...
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, Anita Baker, Basia, Dave Koz and Chuck Mangione. It began in the 1980s as "adult alternative" or NAC (New Age Contemporary or New Adult Contemporary), a well-defined radio format, with jazz, new ...