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One of my favorite phrases that the Teacher uses is when she is getting ready for bed. She refers to that time as "covers time." In smooth jazz, a lot of artists make covers, or remakes, of other songs: mostly pop hits, but on occasion, even smooth jazz classics are covered. This week's playlist features …
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I heard today's song on satellite radio the other day and decided right then and there, this was going to be the Morning Groove one day. Today is that day. https://youtu.be/ZorRGrDiMsA This song really doesn't need an introduction. Many of you know it as the first song from Michael Jackson's classic Off The Wall. For my …
Again, I must have way too much time on my hands. I've put together yet another playlist of tunes, this time with the theme of "Heaven." Each of the songs has the word "heaven" in the title. I probably left out dozens of songs, but I included forty-one of them. Why forty-one? Primarily because I …
Today's song may have been the first fusion composition to become a jazz standard. Written by Josef Zawinul, "Birdland" pays tribute to the famous jazz club on 52nd Street in New York City, named after jazz legend Charlie Parker. Performed by his band Weather Report, it became a big hit, and propelled the band to …
Today for Smooth Jazz Sunday, I've picked the theme of "After Hours." I've found eight songs that share the title "After Hours," but none of them are the same. But I think they all share a similar kind of mood. Whether after hours means after work, after nightfall, or after midnight, or even after that, …
You know, I wish I had this much get up and go with the Christmas cards I plan to send out, or putting up the tree. By "get up and go," I mean getting this Christmas tune playlist of sorts together. I have tried to narrow down the songs to the ones that I feel …
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Earlier this year, for my first John Fluker post, I picked a song that I hadn't heard until the day I wrote the post. The same thing has occurred with this post. The violin, at least to my knowledge, isn't a lead instrument on a lot of smooth jazz or instrumental pop songs. There was …
How many times do you hear a song credited to someone and you have to listen carefully to find where they are? Usually, people who sing are heard handling the lead vocal. Instrumentalists are heard playing their instrument. In some cases, a name serves as a figurehead, such as those albums credited to Quincy Jones. …
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In the late 70s and early 80s, it seemed that funk was everywhere you looked. Some of it was used to serve disco or dance music, some was hardcore funk, and some was called sophisticated funk. Sophisticated funk was associated with Quincy Jones and his productions for the Brothers Johnson; in some of the music being …
I have previously paid tribute to both Rod Temperton & Kashif in recent weeks. Now I find in my internet wanderings that the folks over at SoulBounce have released a mix in tribute of the two talented artists. Enlisting the talents of dj harvey dent, he has created for the site the mix "Stars Of …
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