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Quiet storm songs are a mix of genres, including pop, contemporary R&B, smooth soul, smooth jazz and jazz fusion – songs having an easy-flowing and romantic character. The format first appeared in 1976 but initially it drew from songs recorded earlier.
Pages in category "Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...
Galgenlieder (Gallows Songs) for Saxophone Quartet and Choir (2014)—Lera Auerbach; Galgenlieder (Gallows Songs) for Saxophone Quartet and Children Choir (2015)—Lera Auerbach; I Saw Eternity for Soprano Saxophone and TTBB Choir (2012)—Paul Mealor; Making or Breaking for Soprano Saxophone and SSAATTBB Choir (2015)—Kim André Arnesen
He won a Canadian Country Music Award, a Dove Award presented by the Gospel Music Association, and was twice named Songwriter of the Year by SESAC. Billboard lists 22 of his albums reaching No. 1 on the New Age chart, [ 3 ] and 16 of his songs reaching Top 10 on the Adult Contemporary chart. [ 4 ]
Joshua Redman was born in Berkeley, California, to jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman and dancer and librarian Renee Shedroff. [1] He is Jewish. [2] [3] He was exposed to many kinds of music at the Center for World Music in Berkeley, where his mother studied South Indian dance.
Jazz saxophonists are musicians who play various types of saxophones (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone etc.) in jazz and its associated subgenres. The techniques and instrumentation of this type of performance have evolved over the 20th century, influenced by both movements of musicians that became the subgenres and by particularly influential sax players who helped reshape ...
The genre of solo saxophone has a rich, but largely unmapped history in contemporary music, particularly jazz. [1] Many, but not all, musicians who play and record solo saxophone use extended techniques, a vocabulary of the saxophone beyond its normal range.