Smooth Grooves: Smooth Jazz, Vol. 2

Smooth Grooves: Smooth Jazz, Vol. 2

ASIN: B00004S823

Editorial Reviews
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There wasn't one smooth-jazz radio station in the United States when any of the 12 tracks included here were recorded. Yet, except for questionable selections by Dexter Wansel, Steps Ahead, and Stuff, the artist list here reads like a sampling of a radio playlist. It's been suggested that smooth jazz began nearly a quarter of a century ago when saxophonist John Klemmer took Dave Grusin and Larry Carlton into a Los Angeles studio and began turning out soft jazz with long, lilting lines and mellowed accompaniment. Klemmer's "Touch" is included here, as is music from other musicians who crossed over in the late 1970s and early '80s to the pop and R&B markets regularly enough to record for major pop-record labels. In fact, Lee Ritenour's "Countdown" comes from Rit, the same 1981 album on which he scored a top 15 pop single with "Is It You." Grover Washington Jr.'s contribution to this compilation from the same year, "Come Morning," is the title track on the follow-up to his platinum classic, Winelight. This CD starts off strong with the influential saxes of Washington, George Howard, and David Sanborn. Of all the classic music from the prolific Crusaders during this period, their "Standing Tall" is very likely the worst track from their worst album, and it's definitely a programming error here. The remainder of Smooth Grooves, Volume 2 rounds out to a fair sampling of pioneering music that smooth-jazz radio programmers had to choose from when the genre gathered steam in the mid-1980s. --Mark Ruffin

Tracks:

I Just Wanna Be Your Girl - Chapter 8
If You Play Your Cards Right - Alicia Myers
Just Be My Lady - Larry Graham
Let Me Be Your Angel - Stacy Lattisaw
Am I Dreaming - Atlantic Starr
I Have Learned To Respect The Power Of Love - Stephanie Mills
What You Won't Do For Love - Bobby Caldwell
Tender Love (Extended Vocal Remix) - Force M.D.'s
Why Have I Lost You - Cameo
Come Go With Me - Teddy Pendergrass
As We Lay - Shirley Murdock
Fire & Desire - Rick James

Customer Reviews:

Smooth Grooves: A Sensual Collection, Vol. 2..........2007-06-02

The title says it all. A good collection of love songs at any price. My favorites on this disc:

1. I Just Wanna Be Your Girl - Chapter 8
2. If You Play Your Cards Right - Alicia Myers
4. Let Me Be Your Angel - Stacy Lattisaw
5. Am I Dreaming - Atlantic Starr
7. What You Won't Do For Love - Bobby Caldwell
8. Tender Love (Extended Vocal Remix) - Force M.D.'s

The aforementioned songs were "serious" cuts back in the day!! Five stars!

For R&B Fans.......2006-11-09

What can I say about this compilation? First this CD has some of the greatest slow jams you will ever find. Chapter 8's I Just Wanna Be Your Girl Featuring Anita Baker, is probably the best song on here. Not to say songs like, If You Play Your Cards Right, Let Me Be Your Angel, Tender Love, What You Won't Do For Love, Come Go With Me, As We Lay and the late great Rick James's Fire & Desire are not great songs. Needless to say if you are a R&B fan you will love this CD.

Nothing But Back To Back Classic.......2006-02-08

Smooth Grooves: A Sensual Collection, Vol. 2 is a follow up to Volume 1, and like Volume 1, the CD is very constient with the classic slow jams, that may young folks were made of. Standout tracks include the classic and often sampled Tender Love. Other standout tracks include What You Won't Do For Love by Bobby Caldwell ,Come Go With Me by Teddy P and the always heartbreaking classics Am I Dreaming by Atlantic Starr and Fire & Desire by Rick James.

Rich and Smooth!!!!!.......2003-10-22

This is one of the best compilations in this Smooth Grooves Series and of course I would definitely reccommend this album to
anyone who likes old school rhythm and blues, love songs, and good music every track on this album is solid some of the best names in music are on this album. My favorites: Fire and Desire, Am I Dreaming, Just Be My Lady and many other great artists and songs I love this album !!!!!

This is the best of these CDs (out of all that I own).......2002-07-08

I own quite a few from this series.

When you are sitting around the house on a Sunday night and don't want to turn on the television or read a book, this is the apropos solution.

Particularly good are numbers 1, 2, 8 and 12. The difficulty of finding a lot of these songs individually is what makes the CD worth every penny.

Tracks:

Shakin' Not Stirred - Brian Hughes
Last Summer - Bryan Savage
Borders - Craig Chaquico
Sweet Surrender - 3rd Force
The Panama Cat - Acoustic Alchemy
Take Five - Dancing Fantasy
Body Language - Jonathan Cain
Revelation Of The Heart - 3rd Force
Highway 1 - Neal Schon
Stay With Me - William Aura
Breathe Again - Doug Cameron
World As One - Grant Geissman

Customer Reviews:

Glue It Into Your Car CD Player.......2000-08-03

I am serious. Jam this CD into your car and don't take it out. I HAVE to drive on I-95 everyday, and I think that I'd give into the constant calling of road rage if it wasn't for this CD. Craig Chaquico, Neal Schon, Jonathan Cain, 3RD Force. How can you go wrong. My personal favorite - The Panama Cat by Acoustic Alchemy. I could be stuck behind 2 jack-knifed tractor trailors and not really care.

Tracks:

Come Morning - Grover Washington, Jr.
Love Will Find A Way - George Howard
As We Speak - David Sanborn
Westchester Lady - Bob James
First Light In The Morning - Dexter Wansel
Old Town - Steps Ahead
Standing Tall - Crusaders
Touch - John Klemmer
Modern Times Blues - Jean-Luc Ponty
Countdown (Captain Fingers) - Lee Ritenour
Claire's Song - Yellowjackets
Sometimes Bubba Gets Down - Stuff

Amazon.com

There wasn't one smooth-jazz radio station in the United States when any of the 12 tracks included here were recorded. Yet, except for questionable selections by Dexter Wansel, Steps Ahead, and Stuff, the artist list here reads like a sampling of a radio playlist. It's been suggested that smooth jazz began nearly a quarter of a century ago when saxophonist John Klemmer took Dave Grusin and Larry Carlton into a Los Angeles studio and began turning out soft jazz with long, lilting lines and mellowed accompaniment. Klemmer's "Touch" is included here, as is music from other musicians who crossed over in the late 1970s and early '80s to the pop and R&B markets regularly enough to record for major pop-record labels. In fact, Lee Ritenour's "Countdown" comes from Rit, the same 1981 album on which he scored a top 15 pop single with "Is It You." Grover Washington Jr.'s contribution to this compilation from the same year, "Come Morning," is the title track on the follow-up to his platinum classic, Winelight. This CD starts off strong with the influential saxes of Washington, George Howard, and David Sanborn. Of all the classic music from the prolific Crusaders during this period, their "Standing Tall" is very likely the worst track from their worst album, and it's definitely a programming error here. The remainder of Smooth Grooves, Volume 2 rounds out to a fair sampling of pioneering music that smooth-jazz radio programmers had to choose from when the genre gathered steam in the mid-1980s. --Mark Ruffin

Customer Reviews:

Fair.......2007-07-06

Not all of the songs on this CD were that great, but the whole CD was made by "Friends and Strangers" and "Song For You."

It's worth purchasing-- secondhand.

Average customer rating:

The Quiet Storm at its smoothest.

Smooth Grooves: Jazzy Soul, Vol. 2
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Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00003OT6H
Release Date: 2000-01-18

Tracks:

Portuguese Love - Teena Marie
What You Won't do For Love - Bobby Caldwell
Better Days - Dianne Reeves
The Best Is Yet To Come - Grover Washington Jr./Patti LaBelle
Sweetest Pain - Loose Ends
Keep That Same Old Feeling - The Crusaders
Living All Alone - Phyllis Hyman
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Valentine Love - Michael Henderson
Whisper Softly - Kool & The Gang

Customer Reviews:

The Quiet Storm at its smoothest........2004-05-24

Michael Henderson, Phyllis Hyman, Ramsey Lewis, Kool and The Gang and others are heard performing some of the smoothest and classiest jazz-influenced soul ballads ever recorded. Most of these songs were recorded and released during the early 1980s (when the Quiet Storm radio format was rapidly growing) and deservedly became late-night classics.

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