CALL HIM POP. Call him jazz. Call him, if you must, a smooth operator. But whatever you do, don’t call the music that trumpeter Chris Botti makes smooth jazz. “We’re not smooth jazz,” Botti says, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: C Brandon/Redferns via Getty Images In 1970, DeWayne “Blackbyrd” McKnight was a ...

When the mercury rises, few can resist the temptation of instant cool. What's better than relaxing at the pool? The options from there are many and fluid, depending on the level of public or private ...

Jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall’s most recent studio album is the early-2015 release “Wallflower,” an exploration of, mostly, soft-rock hits from the 1970s — indeed, the golden age of soft rock.

Whether referred to as “smooth music,” “my favorite songs” or perhaps something involving expletives, the easy-rocking singles from the ’70s and early ’80s known as “yacht rock” still have a sizable ...

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Whenever I’m asked to provide a “fun fact” about myself, I usually say that I worked as a smooth-jazz radio announcer back in college. It wasn’t the kind of unsuitable, faintly ironic part-time job ...

YOU HAD TO FIGURE THAT once soul music was selling presidential candidates George Bush with the Lee Atwater all-stars in ’88, Saxophone Bill Clinton in ’92, the “Dole Man” of ’96 it had to have ...