Smooth Jazz - CD Reviews (474)
Historically speaking, jazz has and always will be about originality, as well as the intuitive creative spirit that comes from within. From the onset, notable musicians …
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15 Mar
Flipside by Jeff Lorber
As long as Jeff Lorber has been in the music business, one would think he would play it safe and always put out the slamming jazz/funk he is well known for. But on his new …
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When this CD, Nature arrived on my desk, I scanned quickly through the publicity blurb and saw the words jazzy pop. The record came dangerously close to landi…
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Smooth jazz is in trouble. Clear Channel Communications, which just about single-handedly makes and breaks artists in this genre by dictating the directional style of th…
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R&B, soul, contemporary and smooth jazz saxophonists often point to Grover Washington Jr. as the master’s master saxophonist when it came to combining emotion, soul and …
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Smooth grooves and tender moves open this CD as Keith Newton expresses his many faceted personality through original tunes, beginning with Groove 4U. No stranger …
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16 Feb
Movin On by Jeremy Scott
Milwaukee native Jeremy Scott is a saxophonist who can be classified as a remarkable talent; in fact, this 22-year old dynamo has made quite a name for …
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The best smooth jazz is that which plays it close to the instrumental R&B vest by staying happy with a good groove but doesn’t look down to the audience. While there is a t…
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Bar Hop is perhaps a too-accurate title - while certainly not "bad" jazz by any means, it’s the kind of conservative, slightly Latin- and contempo/fusion-tinged bop/…
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When trumpeter Herb Alpert made a splash in the mid-1960s with his Tijuana Brass, there was a sense among some so-called hip jazz listeners that this was music for squares,…
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