Smooth Jazz - CD Reviews (474)
Trumpeter Lin Rountree recently revealed in a Jazzreview.com feature article that the kids in his high school class often called him "a sax man" and by the way, he moves…
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09 Feb
City Lights by Robert Harris
Robert Harris’ latest album, City Lights, makes you feel like there is no place that you would rather be than with your CD player listening to his songs. The albu…
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One World’s latest release Share My Love is to Latin-jazz what The Chieftains music is to Celtic-folk. One World’s album is like an encyclopedia of Latin music th…
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Keyboardist, guitarist, and vocalist Frank Unzueta leads his band One World through a set of a dozen or so original tunes on "Share My Love". Not content to remain in on…
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05 Feb
The Sax Pack by The Sax Pack
In this age of collaboration, the Sax Pack Jeff Kashiwa, Kim Waters, and Steve Cole epitomizes what it truly means to put the product before egos, each certainly being a…
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05 Feb
Trumpop by Steffen Kuehn
Right from the beginning, the smooth and mellow sounds of this trumpeter--unknown to me before listening to this release--emitted a powerful call for my undivided attent…
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Tunes that are as unimposing as a quiet, lazy stream on a bright summer Sunday afternoon grace this collection from RC & The Groovediggers. Guitarist/composer Royce Camp…
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01 Feb
May I by Willie Hill
In 2006, I reviewed Willie Hill’s Natural Evolution album, which I classified as having a purely soft, mellow, almost ethereal feel about it. It was an album expr…
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27 Jan
Pearls by Gail Jhonson
Gail Jhonson creates a sweet moonlight path with sandbars of traipsing keyboards, dunes of rhythmic grooves and silky effects that light up the skylines of her latest re…
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QwertyWHAT? Wow, I guess if you’re going to come out funky in an ear-catching fashion from your very first track, you may as well give that track a funky "out the…
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