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 ...

“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.

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 ...

He moved to Britain and in 1951 joined a new BBC radio series, Crazy People, which a year later became The Goon Show. Alongside his jazz harmonica ... a rule in which vowels match each other to sound ...

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 ...

And now, she’s putting it to good, albeit surprising, use with a tinselled collection of jazz-inflected Christmas songs. Her smooth crooning ... to make music for radio necessarily.

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Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against Russian President Vladimir Putin, former President Jimmy Carter, U.S. congresswoman ...