VARIOUS ARTISTS

Smooth Chill

2006-01-02

Techno-jazz from Britain, Japan, Germany, New Zealand and Canada. A typical pattern here is basic rhythm track layered-over with ambient vocals (see #2, #3, #4, #7, #8, #9, #10). From what I could tell, only the vocals on “Falling” (#7) and “Crazy Moon” (#9) are constructed in a way that really has lyrics as opposed to vocal sounds and “Falling” is more a jazzy r-and-b number than smooth jazz. “Autumn Leaves” (#2) samples a couple of lines from that jazz standard. - MJVD

More reviews tagged #Jazz

  • reviewed 05/2004

    Bill Charlap Trio
    Somewhere: The Music of Leonard Bernstein

  • reviewed 09/2004

    Madeleine Peyroux
    Careless Love

  • reviewed 04/2017

    Robert Johnson Trio
    Music Is Business

  • reviewed 04/2016

    Letizia Gambi
    Blue Monday

  • reviewed 06/2008

    JEFF COFFIN MU'TET
    Mutopia

  • reviewed 10/2008

    YELLOWJACKETS
    - LIFECYCLE

Compiled by the WYCE Journalism Club

The opinions expressed in these reviews are those of the individual volunteers that submitted the article and do not necessarily reflect the views of WYCE or GRCMC; nor its staff, donors, or affiliates.