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Does anyone know of any instrumental smooth jazz bands?


I am looking for some smooth jazz that is strictly instrumental. Just slow jazz I guess. Any help on where to look or who's cd's to buy would be great.

Here are some listed per category. The ones in all caps are my favorites:

Smooth Jazz Bands: FOURPLAY, SPYRO GYRA, FATTBURGER, Yellowjackets, The Rippingtons, Acoustic Alchemy, 3rd Force, Mezzoforte, URBAN KNIGHTS, Incognito,

Pianists: JEFF LORBER, Ramsey Lewis, JOE SAMPLE, Gregg Karukas, Bobby Lyle, Bob James, BRIAN CULBERTSON, George Duke, DAVID BENOIT, CHICK COREA

Bassists: Marcus Miller, NATHAN EAST,
WAYMAN TISDALE, Stanley Clarke, Brian Bromberg, John Patitucci

Guitarists: Earl Klugh, George Benson, LEE RITENOUR, LARRY CARLTON, NILS, NORMAN BROWN, Ronny Jordan, Craig Chaquico, Russ Freeman, PAUL JACKSON, JR., Kevin Eubanks (yes, the guitarist from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno), JEFF GOLUB, CHUCK LOEB

Saxophonists: BONEY JAMES, GERALD ALBRIGHT, Grover Washington Jr., DAVE KOZ, KENNY G, DAVID SANBORN, CANDY DULFER, George Howard, Kirk Whalum

Drummers: HARVEY MASON, STEVE GADD, OMAR HAKIM

Trumpeters: GREG ADAMS, CHUCK MANGIONE, RICK BRAUN, CHRIS BOTTI, RANDY BRECKER

check out this site if you want to buy on ebay: http://search.ebay.com/smooth-jazz-cds_W...

A couple folks that haeven't been mentioned are Peter White and NY Yankee Center fielder Bernie Williams. They both play excellent acoustic guitars and have CD's out(separate artists btw). Peter White used to play for Basia's backup band His brother Danny White is Basia's collaborator of many years and they're working on new stuff for 2008.

also try Chuck Mangione if Flugelhorn is your bag.

Dare I add Kenny G(soprano sax) in this mix?

Count basie, one of the greatest jazz composers in history, he's developed his own mini genre in jazz, anything by him would be great

Well since nobody has responded, one of my favorites has minimal vocals, It's Sun Goddess by Ramsey Lewis.

On another note, you could try going to amazon.com and selecting music then for genre select jazz and then you can read reviews, and listen to samples from the cd's.

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