Smooth Jazz

Mary Lambert is dipping her toes into the animation pool.
The singer took to Instagram on Thursday (Nov. 12) to reveal that she is taking part in Netflix's upcoming animated movie musical and follow-up series. "I’M A CARTOON!!!!!!! Not just any character, but a strong, singing, fat character with tenderness," she wrote alongside the promo poster for the series. "I have been waiting for a year to tell y’all about this!!!! Being a part of this project has meant everything to me."

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Ann Wilson has revealed in a new interview that a Heart biopic, written and directed by Carrie Brownstein, is in the works.

“I can’t tell you all about it, because it’s still being written right now… I saw the first draft of [Brownstein’s] script, it’s really cool,” Ann Wilson told Sirius XM’s Volume West of the biopic, adding that the film is being produced by Amazon. “The script started in childhood and ended up in the Nineties.”

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10. Jam & Lewis feat. Babyface, "He Don’t Know Nothin’ Bout It"

9. Charlie Wilson, "Forever Valentine"

8. Jazmine Sullivan,“Pick Up Your Feelings”

7. Victoria Monét, “Moment”

6. Kehlani feat. Masego, “Hate the Club”

5. Chloe x Halle, “Do It”

4. Kem, “Lie to Me”

3. Usher feat. Ella Mai, "Don't Waste My Time"

2. Ledisi, “Anything for You”

1. Skip Marley feat. H.E.R., “Slow Down”

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Country singer-songwriter Ed Bruce died Friday (Jan. 8) of natural causes in Clarksville, Tenn. He was 81.

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Sarah Jarosz provided "a little gift" to her fans Thursday by releasing her covers of Billie Eilish's "My Future" and U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For."

Jarosz said she committed herself to learning one cover a week then recorded them with her mic and GarageBand computer software, filmed her acoustic performances, and uploaded them to her Instagram and YouTube accounts. The three-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter covered 10 songs from July to October.

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New Stories - Highway Blues

The only people to win as many or more Grammys as Corea are classical conductor Georg Solti (31), producer Quincy Jones (28), country and bluegrass artist Alison Krauss (27), classical conductors Pierre Boulez (26) and Vladimir Horowitz (25), film composer John Williams (25) and superstar Beyoncé (24).

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Singer-songwriter Helen Ballentine announced a new Skullcrusher EP, Storm in Summer, out April 9th via Secretly Canadian. She previewed the five-track set with its title song, a delicate swirl of ringing guitars and banjo plucks.

“And I wonder if I go back home, can I hide away?” Ballentine sings. “Or if I step into this storm, is it warm? Will I find my place?” She paired the song with a fittingly rainy video in which she stares solemnly out a window.

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Nathaniel Rateliff and his band the Night Sweats join Margo Price on an upcoming episode of CMT Crossroads. Ahead of the show’s March 26th premiere date, CMT posted a video of the two stars collaborating on Rateliff’s “Say It Louder,” off his 2018 album with the Night Sweats, Tearing at the Seams.
Rateliff, playing guitar, kicks off the soulful number and handles the first verse, before Price, in a striking black suit adorned with colorful stars, steps in. “One of these days I’ll take it on my way, one of these nights I’ll leave it somewhere, babe,” Price sings, flexing her dynamic pipes. Soon, she and Rateliff are once again harmonizing on the chorus, at times evoking the freewheeling vibes of the Band and Joni Mitchell.
Rateliff and Price taped their installment of CMT Crossroads at the Factory in Franklin, Tennessee, under Covid safety guidelines. There’s no audience present for the concert.

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"Smooth jazz is music that evolved from a blend of jazz fusion and easy listening pop music, featuring a polished pop feel with little to no jazz improvisation. The genre arose in the mid-1970s in the United States, but it was not named "smooth jazz" until the 1980s. Traditional jazz players and jazz purists did not embrace the popular style; Jazz Journal's "Sound Investment" column stated in November 1999 that it "would cover an extremely wide spectrum of jazz styles" while avoiding smooth jazz.

The earliest smooth jazz music appearing in the 1970s includes the 1975 album Touch by saxophonist John Klemmer, the song "Breezin'" as performed by guitarist George Benson in 1976, the 1977 instrumental composition "Feels So Good" by flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione, and jazz fusion group Spyro Gyra's instrumental "Morning Dance", released in 1979. Smooth jazz grew in popularity in the 1980s as Anita Baker, Sade, Al Jarreau and Grover Washington released multiple hit songs. The smooth jazz genre began to decline at the end of the 1980s in a backlash exemplified by critical complaints about what many critics saw as the "bland" sound of top-selling saxophonist Kenny G, whose popularity peaked with his 1992 album Breathless." ~Wikipedia