![]() Smooth jazz grew in popularity in the 1980s as Anita Baker, Sade, Al Jarreau, Grover Washington Jr. and Bill Withers was released as one of the most popular smooth jazz songs " Just the Two of Us". The mid- to late-1970s included songs " Breezin'" as performed by another smooth jazz pioneer, guitarist George Benson in 1976, the instrumental composition " Feels So Good" by flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione, in 1978, " What You Won't Do for Love" by Bobby Caldwell along with his debut album was released the same year, jazz fusion group Spyro Gyra's instrumental " Morning Dance", released in 1979 and in 1981, a collaboration between Grover Washington Jr. The popularity of smooth jazz declined gradually in the early 2000s. ĭuring the mid-1970s in the United States it was known as "smooth radio", and was not termed "smooth jazz" until the 1980s. It avoids the improvisational "risk-taking" of jazz fusion, emphasizing melodic form and much of the music was initially "a combination of jazz with easy-listening pop music and lightweight R&B". Smooth jazz is a commercially oriented, crossover jazz which came to prominence in the 1980s, displacing the more venturesome jazz fusion from which it emerged. ![]() Smooth jazz is a genre of commercially oriented crossover jazz and easy listening music that became dominant in the mid-1970s to the early 1990s.
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