Why does smooth jazz get such a bad rap? When it's good it's good, and when it's bad, it's just as bad as bad rock, pop or any other music style. Even within the jazz world, the "jazz" jazz people ...

When: Saturday, 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. 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.

The radio station has been playing smooth jazz since 1996 and is the 11th ranked radio station in the Detroit market. , 98.7 is following a national trend of closing jazz stations due to declining ...

Those who crowd into the Hollywood Bowl for the JVC Jazz Festival know what to expect: a marathon injection of so-called smooth jazz. And with one refreshing exception during this edition, there was a ...

Stephanie Jordan doesn’t normally play gigs that begin before noon. But for the first Camellia City Smooth Jazz Festival, the New Orleans-based “Lady Jazz” is making an exception. “For me as an artist ...

Once upon a time, trumpets didn't get much love in smooth jazz. Everyone wanted to listen to the sax, instead. Then along came popular trumpeters such as Chris Botti and Rick Braun, who headlines ...