This year’s most popular smooth jazz songs, ranked by radio airplay detections as measured by Nielsen Music. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. A daily briefing on what matters in the music ...

But it wasn’t just Kenny G. Smooth jazz, the music he’d come to be the face of, was quickly taking over the radio. Smooth jazz didn’t start with Kenny G, though he did quickly become one of its most ...

Just a few years ago, smooth jazz was hugely popular on radio stations throughout the nation. Recently the genre has been in decline, but is that genuinely a result of fewer listeners, or simply bad ...

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Jon Lucien, a singer who used his rich, expressive baritone to pioneer smooth jazz years before it was fashionable to do so, died Saturday at a hospital in Orlando, Fla. He was 65. Lucien died of ...

Steve Bauer records an opening for a future episode of the “Sunday Jazz Brunch” radio show. Matt Riedl The Wichita Eagle Every week, Steve Bauer sits and edits his “Sunday Jazz Brunch” radio show for ...

LAKELAND — Jazmin Ghent's parents had such love for jazz that they made it part of their firstborn daughter’s name. She didn't let her parents down. She is an accomplished saxophonist, specializing in ...