THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR SONGS RANKED BY SELF-REPORTED PLAYLISTS AND SMOOTH JAZZ RADIO AIRPLAY DETECTIONS, AS MEASURED BY AND PROVIDED BY LUMINATE. FOR THE LATTER, STATIONS ARE ELECTRONICALLY ...

Michael Hagerty is the senior producer for Houston Matters. He's spent more than 20 years in public radio and television and ...

Ted Grossman, a long-time host of WLRN's "The Night Train" program, is retiring after nearly 50 years. His last show will be ...

“According to Billboard, Kenny G’s ‘Miracles’ album is the best selling holiday album of all time and for me, his music is a large reason for why I got into ‘smooth jazz’ as a kid and have some of the ...

Help Me’ is a hybrid track which shows off the best of both sides of Joni Mitchell at once. Read more about the story behind the song here.

It is the first week of the year and as the holiday season continues, so does the island’s live music scene. Local musicians ...

Hey, hey, my my... yacht rock fun will never die! We look at the enduring legacy of a subgenre of music once reviled by critics. It's been around so long, you can't help but give it up. We look at a ...

Jefferson Public Radio Ms. Schafer's creative arrangements and intimate ... Midwest Record "A treat for anyone who considers themselves to be a Jazz aficionado, superb, smooth, evocative vocals, ...

In the mid-1970s and ‘80s in SoCal, bands like Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, and Toto blended jazz, R&B, and pop to create a new soft style: yacht rock.

In the '90s music changed once again. Affectionally called New Age, specialty radio stations started using a format known as smooth jazz. It was a genre that blended the complexity of past ...