Smooth Jazz News

Michael Buble, Sophie Milman, Jesse Cook, Four80East, Darren Rahn and Alexander Zonjic are among nominees for the sixth annual Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards just announced.

Grammy Award-winning vocalist Michael McDonald this week stopped by the Smooth Jazz Top 20 studio to talk about his current release This Christmas .

There are few new artists these days as exciting as young vocalist Spencer Day .

Barry Aiken, center, and NorthPoint perform Saturday at Windows. Courtesy of Barry Aiken When Dolores Gonzales moved to Spokane from Los Angeles, she didn't miss the traffic or the hectic lifestyle of Southern California, but she did miss the music.

Why Are They Falling like Dominoes? Jazz is not a music you can dance to; at least, not as a rule.

Smooth Jazz superstar saxophonists Boney James and Dave Koz are featured on a special holiday CD releasedA today, November 3,A by the U.S. Postal Service in collaboration with the Concord Music Group.

You can see and hear smooth jazz saxophonist Jessy J on plenty of videos she's loaded on her website , including her Smooth Jazz Top 20 No.

Madonna launched the construction of a multi-million dollar girls' school she is building in Malawi on Monday and pledged to build similar schools in other countries if the project succeeds.

If you need a mid-week fix of live smooth jazz and good food, Fire and Spice at the Sheraton Tucson on East Grant is the place to be.

The new Michael Jackson record "This Is It" hits stores around the world on Monday, kicking off a week of money-spinning events dedicated to the "king of pop," but the outlook for the two-disc album is decidedly mixed.

Saxophonist Kenny G , a smooth jazz icon who has sold the most instrumental CDs in history, has surprised many of his fans by collaborating with the alternative rock band Weezer .

Trumpeter Rick Braun is one of today's top "smooth jazz" musicians. But fans are sometimes surprised to learn that he first made a name for himself in the pop world.

Smooth Jazz pianist Alan Hewitt 's new CD Retroactive , his first for NuGroove Records, won't be released until January 19th.

Michael Paulo remembers the way his parents took care of business at their nightclub, Opus One, at the Ilikai in the 1970s.

A Bahamian Supreme Court judge ordered a retrial late on Wednesday in the case of two people accused of trying to extort $25 million from Hollywood actor John Travolta.

During much of 2008 and early 2009, smooth jazz saxophonist Euge Groove joined Tina Turner on her 50th anniversary worldwide Tina: Live in Concert Tour in one of the top-grossing tours in recent years, according to Billboard magazine.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai must face an election run-off against his main rival on November 7, officials said on Tuesday, to resolve a disputed first round that plunged the country into months of political uncertainty.

Trumpeter Greg Adams, Guitarist Paul Jackson Jr. to Perform at Teamsters Black Caucus so Cal Chapter Music Festival 2009, Nov.

Josh Friedes, campaign manager for Washington Families Standing Together, said the other side is lying to people about what's really at stake, "and the more money they have, the easier it is for them to mislead the public." No kidding.

Three Americans won the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for discovering and identifying telomerase, the enzyme that renews the little caps on the end of chromosomes whose natural fraying underlies aging and cancer.