While hauling his luggage through airport terminals, Boney James occasionally hears a calming jazz saxophone coming from the sound system. His jazz saxophone. James, a veteran of modern smooth jazz, ...

The Modern Jazz Quartet was a major jazz institution, a band that, counting a seven-year “vacation,” lasted 43 years. During a time when jazz musicians were stereotyped as unreliable, rarely sober and ...

The alto saxophone is one of the most popular instruments in jazz and pop music, known for its smooth, expressive sound. Over the years, many talented musicians have made their mark playing the alto ...

David Akrish is a modern, smooth jazz, funk, soul drummer from Seattle,WA. He started playing at age seven listening to soul, funk and rock. He now has a split musical personality playing and studying ...

Yesterday, after 19 years of pumping smooth jazz onto the airwaves, KWJZ 98.9 switched formats to the “Seattle Sound” of modern music as The Click, featuring the likes of the Kings of Leon, the Black ...

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 ...