Back in 1981, Nick Webb and Simon James, two enterprising British music school students, decided to start an instrumental acoustic jazz band focused on dueling steel- and nylon-string guitars. Mind ...

Cory Wong understood the moment when he called Dave Koz to the stage on Sunday night. "It's like Shaggy and Sting," Wong said at the MainStage Tent at Crooners in Fridley. "Why are they doing stuff ...

Guitar instrumental of Whitney Houston classic. Recorded at Newbury Sound and Cyber Tracks in Boston MA. Currently in steady rotation on internet radio stations that include CD101.9, Smooth Jazz ...

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CALL HIM POP. Call him jazz. Call him, if you must, a smooth operator. But whatever you do, don’t call the music that trumpeter Chris Botti makes smooth jazz. “We’re not smooth jazz,” Botti says, ...

Chuck Mangione has died. A member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and later the Jazz Brothers, the flugelhornist and trumpeter had his greatest success as a solo artist with the smooth jazz ...

The jazz world just lost one of its most iconic sounds, one that made you feel so good, you never forgot it. Chuck Mangione, the Grammy-winning flugelhornist whose smooth jazz sound defined an era, ...

In a thrilling announcement for music aficionados across South Africa, Grammy-winning saxophonist Kenny G is poised to captivate audiences with his enchanting melodies this October. Renowned for his ...

Chuck Mangione, the Grammy-winning flugelhornist whose smooth jazz sound defined an era, died this week at age 84. TMZ reported that the famed musician passed away from natural causes at his home in ...