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Nat Cole: cooler than Frank Sinatra sipping a milkshake in a snow storm.

tell about music and history, not 90% racism

He is a timeless classic enough said.

I don’t think it’s the fact that people put down smooth jazz because they don’t think it’s jazz. Once you try to pander so much to your audience, the record labels and you’re more concerned about fitting into a format and creating hits. It just takes away from the passion of the music. Also, not to say it doesn’t happen but try to think of the last time you listen to a smooth jazz song and you was really impressed by the artistry, it’s almost nonexistence.

What's the name of the background music to this clip? Beautiful.

Actually it was quite common for classical-music artists in the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's to have approval rights over their own records, but jazz artists weren't granted that same right.

Don't forget the Lounge Lizards and John Zorn! Good video

Grover ,Ronnie and Hubert Laws, Joe Sample,George Howard etc was who my Dad and Uncles listened and guided me as a youth

why not take it seriously that he did actually take his Saturn trip and research from there . ? - Emmanuel Swedenborg wrote of Saturn's inhabitants as well as other planets ..

Lonnie Johnson and T Bone Walker will Round out the Trio.

music was better when heroin was fashionable

His name is pronounced Albert " Eye -ler " Ayler . He was from Cleveland . Ohio . Maria Maria his Girl Friend destroyed him , ruined his music and kept him away from his fellow musicians like Sunny Murray and others . Albert was a true Genius . We loved him very much . " Albert Ayler Lives " Thanks for the Video .

Are you going to do something about jazz in the 1990s? When Charles Gayle, Ivo Perelman, David S. Ware and Ken Vandermark came along it was a very exciting time.

Most of you weren't even born during Edward Lee Morgan's lifetime.

Heres a way to tell how impactful Smooth Jazz (hate that name) really is: you could write a book (many have) on the real Jazz tunes that have become Standards. With Adult Contemporary (sounds better than that other label) you might be able to name four or five tunes that have become Standards.

Being a musician I disagree! Smooth Jazz is Jazz. It is a form that has progressed from the past. Instead of trying to put it down just accept it is not for you. Most musicians can accept different forms of music because they understand what, how the music was created. The writings, the handling of the instrument/s. Usually those who negatively run their mouths can't play a instrument! Like a sport fan, they can tell you how to do it but can't play the sport!???

Man Grover was the best.

He was an egomaniac and a super asshole. Couldn’t swing to save his life. Show pony.

Grover Washington Jr is the father of smooth jazz without him there wouldn't be a Kenny g!

09:13 Sad to see him deteriorate towards the end. He was definitely not mentally ok seeing that he tried to fill his apartment up with water like a pool. Omg.

What is the name of the backgroung track?

Been out to the Bixfest six times. Loved every second. Thanks for putting it on! NH

Art Ensemble of Chicago and Pat Methany were my favorites.

You could ask, once people like Barney Kessel moved away from the jazz of the 40's into the 50's and started making albums of show tunes, that dissipated his talent and others, what happened? Then musicians started coming out with their own tunes like Dave Liebman and Bruce Foreman, when listeners still wanted to hear bebop or beyond out of them..nobody listens to those 70's records. You had Miles Davis and Weather Report dominating the 70's and Herbie Hancock. But you go to a club and artists like Bruce Foreman, when he's not doing CowBop, he's doing straight ahead. My preference.

Smooth jazz was basically instrumental R&B grooves. Grover Washington Jr. and Joe Sample kept things interesting. Kenny G was music for insomniacs! 😅😅

What an Enlightenment Seriously no one in 60 years has published a Sun Ra songbook or charts ? He needs to be played more as a composer/pianist.

Miles was a contrarian and sometimes talked like an asshole. Dolphin was a kind, egoless man, only focused on music

Commercial BS completely junk white folks instrumental music

Free jazz is a 60 year development in the history of jazz, even the mainstream of music today, no musicians can ignore its influence, especially innovators like Ornette Coleman, his ideas and language on the saxophone and his great compositions are still modern, even in institutions which usually ignore anything after 1960.

Bassist Marcus miller was and still is a innovative Jazz pioneer pushing the boundaries of Jazz considering his composing and producing with Miles Davis and David Sanborn...Marcus played a critical role in Miles Davis 1980s career resurrection and David Sanborns overall career success

Give The People What They Want, Always.........

Jazz fusion bands sounded great live but their albums were not so good. The best example is Spyro Gyra, wonderful live concerts but their albums were not so inspiring to listen to.

Most smooth jazz isn't jazz...its all groove oriented..that gets played out

HE HAD A GOOD GIMMICK. AND A LOT OF WHITE PEOPLE BOUGHT HIS GIMMICK. BUT HIS MUSIC DIDN'T REALLY SWING

Most of the artists mentioned in this video never identified this music as 'Fusion' they called it 'Jazz-Rock'

Very well done! So surprised this 80's "jazz" movement history wasn't compiled earlier (or maybe I just missed it).

This clickbait garbage feeds on the legacy of a great artist like a blood-sucking parasite.

Jazz didn't develop in Europe nor in Africa. So it's a black- white creation of North America.

After my first exposure to Jazz Fusion everything else was a distinct second.❤R.T.F. FOREVER

Kenny G.......😂😂😂😂 Dont make me laugh.......

Very sad. I hope that these days we are more understanding of the causes of drug addiction and those who suffer from addiction. He had a beautiful life musically, but he could not have been a happy person. God bless.

A lot of smooth jazz isn't jazz, but it's of its time and enjoyable. Marsalis was a bad tempered fossil

This douchebag things "smooth jazz" is jazz? "Hip Easy Listening" would be a better phrase to describe Kenny's music.

Eighties were not great. The NY Giants won the Super, true. But Reagan/Bush years were a shock to many.

Ah yeah, the 80s! What a wonderful decade, not only for Jazz. Thanks for the video!

Real nice! Thanks

One thing about Smooth Jazz: it will NEVER progress from where it is, without sounding completely like another genre, and that's not progression. In other words, we won't hear a progression from Louis Armstrong to John Coltrane or Ornette Coleman in Smooth Jazz. And if it does ends up sounding more like R&B, Hip Hop, Adult Contemporary, or anything that isn't Traditional Jazz, Smooth Jazz will continue as is. But, if it moves too closely to Traditional Jazz, it will die overnight, because most lovers of Smooth Jazz do not listen to Armstrong or Trane. And if they do listen to Armstrong, they only listen to "What A Wonderful World." They won't listen to his Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings.

Smooth Jazz is all about the money. It's so sure of its ability to say so little despite being played so loud.

Smooth jazz makes me want to jam kebab skewers in my ears.

Cool. Thanks for sharing