| | No. 1 Smooth Jazz Radio Hits! CD (1 Customer Review)
No. 1 Smooth Jazz Radio Hits is a ten-song collection of mellow and thoroughly modern jazz sounds featuring some of the big-name artists recording for Shanachie and Narada Jazz. Most of the tracks, like Chieli Minucci's "My Girl Sunday," Chuck Loeb's "Sarao," and Kim Waters' "Waterfall," get bogged down in overly programmed rhythms and bland, clichéd dance music atmospherics and are nothing but the kind of background music you are likely to hear while on hold with the power company. A couple of the tracks manage to escape the gloom by delving deeply into the funky end of smooth jazz: the Urban Knights' bubbling cover of R&B staple "Hi-Heel Sneakers" and Nestor Torres' grooving take on Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man" are fun and almost exciting. Strip away the synths and they might even pass for jazz. ~ Tim Sendra
Kim Waters/Fattburger/Urban Knights/Walter Beasley/Chuck L
Personnel: Carmen Cuesta (vocals, spoken vocals); Alfonzo Blackwell (vocals); Chieli Minucci (guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, programming, drum programming); Chuck Loeb (guitar, keyboards, drum programming, percussion programming); Jeff Lockhart, Evan Marks, Bubba Jones, Allen Hinds (guitar); David Mann (flute, saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, keyboards, drum programming); Nestor Torres (flute); Jeff Kashiwa, Walter Beasley (saxophone); Kim Waters (soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, keyboards, drum programming); Tony Guerrero, Barry Danielian (trumpet); Dave Darlington (keyboards, programming); Kavin Hoo (keyboards, drum programming); Dave Kochanski, Andrew Sherman, Carl Evans, Jr. (keyboards); Kevin Koch (drums, drum programming); Ricky Lawson, Lionel Cordew, Bernard Davis (drums); Daniel Sadownick, David Charles, Tom Aros (percussion).
Photographer: Anthony Barboza.
No. 1 Smooth Jazz Radio Hits! Music | List Price | $17.97 (You save $3.52) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Jazz CDs, Jazz Instrument, Jazz Collections, Smooth Jazz, Fusion, Oldies Collections | | Label | Shanachie | | Orig Year | 2004 | | All Time Sales Rank |  105698  | | CD Universe Part number | 6589812 | | Catalog number | 5108 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jan 20, 2004 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Chieli Minucci; Chuck Loeb; Dave Darlington; Fattburger; Frayne Lewis; Jeff Kashiwa; Kim Waters; Alfonzo Blackwell; Andrew Sherman; Paul Wickliffe; Walter Beasley; David Mann; Kavin Hoo; Brian Bromberg; Danny Weiss (Compilation); Danny Weiss (Compilation) |
No. 1 Smooth Jazz Radio Hits! Songs | 1. | Hyde Park (The "Ah, Oooh" Song) - Jeff Kashiwa |
| 2. | Waterfall - Kim Waters |
| 3. | Hi-Heel Sneakers - Ramsey Lewis/Urban Knights |
| 4. | Cruise Control - Special EFX |
| 5. | Comin' at Cha - Walter Beasley |
| 6. | Watermelon Man - Nestor Torres |
| 7. | Funky Shuffle - Alfonzo Blackwell |
| 8. | My Girl Sunday - Chieli Minucci |
| 9. | Sarao - Chuck Loeb |
| 10. | Evil Ways - Fattburger |
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