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Fattburger is a jazz group, best categorized in the jazz-funk, contemporary jazz, or jazz fusion subgenres. The band was formed by saxophonist Hollis Gentry, keyboardist Carl Evans Jr., bassist Mark Hunter, drummer Kevin Koch, and guitarist Steve Laury in San Diego during the early 1980s. Tommy Aros soon joined as a percussionist.
In the 1980s, KIFM experimented with a contemporary jazz program at night, called "Lights Out San Diego". Smooth jazz (1987–2011) In September 1987, as Lights Out San Diego gained in popularity, KIFM went with smooth jazz around the clock as "Smooth Jazz 98.1". In 1996, KIFM was bought by Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting for $28.75 million.
Art Good is an American radio personality who helped make smooth jazz popular during the 1980s through his program JazzTrax. [1] [2] Before becoming a disk jockey, he contemplated becoming a minister. In 1981, while he was Program Director for KIFM, a struggling adult contemporary station in San Diego, he began an evening program of jazz-tinged ...
Jazztrax, formally known as the Jazztrax Showcase of the Absolute Newest, is a weekly countdown of America's Top 20 Smooth Jazz singles by Art Good. The show was founded in 1985 by Good in San Diego and is currently broadcast out of the San Fernando Valley, the heart of smooth jazz. Each week, Art has an interview with a guest performer, while ...
Smooth jazz was a popular radio format that included songs by artists such as George Benson, Pat Metheny, Kenny G, Luther Vandross, Sade, Robin Thicke, Anita Baker, Basia, Dave Koz and Chuck Mangione. It began in the 1980s as "adult alternative" or NAC (New Age Contemporary or New Adult Contemporary), a well-defined radio format, with jazz, new ...
Hollis Gentry. Hollis Vernon Gentry III (December 3, 1954, in Corpus Christi, Texas – September 5, 2006, in San Diego) was an American saxophonist, music producer and composer of smooth jazz and Latin jazz . Gentry grew up in San Diego and founded the funk band Power at the age of fifteen. Power opened for Cannonball Adderley in 1972 when ...
This was the last public announcement from ShoCorp. Show tickets never went on sale. 2011 Oasis Contemporary Jazz Awards. The 2011 Awards Weekend (March 10–13, 2011 in San Diego, CA) had scheduled shows at the Balboa Theater on Thursday, March 10 and the Awards Show at the San Diego Civic Theater on Saturday, March 12. The show was ...
He has been featured in Jazziz, Smooth & Soul, and Smooth Jazz News. His album Eyes of Mars (2005) was No. 6 for the year on JazzLynx and was featured in Jazz Times magazine as one of the top albums of the season. Yandall is a session musician in San Diego, Los Angeles, New York, and New Jersey. His work has appeared on The Weather Channel 's ...