In this episode of Backstage Sonoma, host Steven Roby sits down with the core members of The Smooth Jazz Alley—keyboardist and producer Marco Montoya, drummer and producer Kevin Lewis, and saxophonist ...

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, ...

Ahhh, the 80s. Big hair, big synthesizer sounds and programmed beats. That didn't just happen with pop and rock, some of these trends seeped into contemporary jazz, too. This was the decade when much ...

Jazz goes back to the 1930s in the "Paris of the East" and though the heydays are a haze of nostalgia, Shanghai is again a magnet for jazz musicians. This month fusion and smooth jazz are featured.

The annual Playboy Jazz Festival concerts at the Old Pasadena Summer Fest have always been among the summer’s most appealing events. The price -- free -- is just right. The music -- a blend of smooth ...

Things will be smooth and groovy this weekend at the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts. The now annual Suffolk Riverfront Jazz, with this year’s headliners saxophonist Euge Groove and guitarist Peter ...