New York and Washington, D.C., have both lost their smooth-jazz stations in recent weeks, leading a radio-industry Web site to wonder if it's "time to sound a death knell for the format." Not that ...

This weekend, we recommend you visit Stony Brook’s Staller Center on Saturday to check out jazz great flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione and his group. The concert starts at 8 p.m. and tickets cost $38.

When smooth jazz star Richard Elliot and his wife, Camella, weredeciding where to finish raising their family about eight yearsago, he knew he didn’t want to bring up his children in the LosAngeles ...

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How do you tell a knee jerk from a goosestep? I had to wonder after I received a press release for the first annual Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards, which take place in Oakville, Ont., tomorrow. "The ...

Smooth Radio has announced it will launch Smooth 70s on DAB+ digital radio across Malta and Gozo on Saturday, 24 February. The new station, which is currently running test transmissions online, joins ...

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London was the music world’s melting pot during the 1970s. Fans of heavy metal, funk, punk and reggae had an appreciation for their respective genres. It was an exciting time for Helen Rogers, a ...

Smooth jazz can sometimes be an awfully self-serious genre. But perhaps the reason that saxaphonist Boney James is one of the genre’s last remaining chart-toppers – his most recent album, ‘futuresoul, ...