The stars will be out on Saturday June 20 as the Westin La Paloma prepares to host the Fathers Day Weekend Smooth Jazz All-Star Party! Concert-goers will get three shows in one when a Triple Crown of ...

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, ...

After writing a column about locally based online radio stations ("A to Z," December 7), A to Z received additional tips about Internet-based area enterprises that eschew the traditional airwaves. Up ...

At 3 p.m. May 18, the daily soundtrack for thousands of lives in the Bay Area was altered. That’s the moment the FM radio station previously known as KKSF-FM 103.7 said goodbye to Boney James and ...

These days, Slack and other professional communication software is as ubiquitous as email. This means that when something changes, it’s a Big Deal. For me, at least Something Slack rolled out in the ...

Johnny Hates Jazz fell apart not long after their big hit. But that big hit, "Shattered Dreams", left a lasting impact.

Seattle fans of smooth jazz were confused last week when they dialed their favorite radio station, KWJZ 98.9 FM, and heard Dave Matthews and the Kings of Leon. At 3 p.m. Dec. 27, the station changed ...

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 ...