Smooth Jazz

Jay Chou & Fei Yu Ching - Faraway

Jay Chou - Lu Xiao Yu

Best Smooth Jazz host Rod Lucas (3rd Jan 2015)

Bassist Mitchell Coleman Jr. is capturing that funky soul sound just like Stevie Wonder. I’ve always been a huge fan of Stevie Wonder and it’s so great to find another artist that embodies that same kind of vibe. Coleman just released his new album “Soul Searching”, and his riveting yet smooth delivery of Jazz makes it hard not to be impressed and carries you through from the beginning till the end. He is influenced by the likes of Miles Davis, Donny Hathaway and Louis Johnson, no wonder I love his sound so much!

He also has a Facebook at: http://bit.ly/MitchellColemanJr, Twitter at: https://twitter.com/MitchOnTheBass and website California Based Veteran Bass Player | Mitchell Coleman Jr. if anyone wants to learn more about him.

Brian Simpson-What 'Cha Gonna Do?

Brian Simpson feat Peter White - Never without you

Waiting For Direction

That is a question posed by the blogsite FiveThirtyEight. Author Carl Bialik looks at what happened to the Smooth Jazz format when Arbitron’s PPM devices were introduced to markets that carried that format. The results were quick and obvious. Was it disappearing/aging demographics? Format burnout? Or was it the new PPM system of gathering ratings data?

Bialik wrote: "smooth jazz is essentially dead on major-market radio. But as to what killed it... that's a mystery that's bedeviled the radio industry."

Looking at metered markets, they showed a sharp decline in ratings coinciding with the launch of PPM ratings being introduced in those markets. 16 smooth jazz stations in major markets flipped to different formats soon after the introduction of PPM metering. Did the smooth jazz format not encode properly for the PPM devices to properly detect?

Rick O'Dell was the program director for Chicago's smooth jazz station, WNUA-FM, which saw its ratings take a huge tumble at that time. He told Bialik that at that time period, "smooth jazz was at the edge of a cliff. The Portable People Meter could have helped pull the format back or push it over. It turns out PPM gave it a swift kick right over the edge."

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PHILLIP BROOKS - SWEET AS A ROSE

1. 00:07 Chuck Loeb - Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
2. 05:33 Peter White - Soul Embrace
3. 10:16 Brian Tarquin - Last Kiss Goodbye
4. 14:48 Joe Sample - I'll Love You
5. 20:18 Peter White - The Closer I Get To You
6. 24:44 Jeff Golab - Turn Off The Lights