Smooth jazz listeners.....

[two fingers]

Short version: What do you like to listen to?

Long Version: So, I am back in school and end up staying up until very late doing homework. (Just finished at about 1:40am EST.) I like to listen to smooth jazz while I work. I can tune in and out of the music and get right back to work like throwing a switch. I have always liked Yellow Jackets stuff (especially Like a River and Blue Hats CD's). Most of the other stuff I like is in that vein. So, what kind of stuff in that general category do you like?

P.S. I have tried a couple of online radio stations and the commercials drive me nuts. I would rather just shuffle a category on my computer or throw in a CD.

Thanks!

 

[Schlyder]

Bass on the Broadband.

http://www.bassonthebroadband.com/index.html

 

[Inverse Kinetix]

proper smooth jazz

 

[JimK]

Not Smooth jazz, per se...but Manu Katche's Neighbourhood
http://www.amazon.com/Neighbourhood...F8&qid=1351168389&sr=1-3&keywords=manu+katche


or Playground
http://www.amazon.com/Playground-Ma...F8&qid=1351168389&sr=1-4&keywords=manu+katche

These may fit your needs. Actually, some of these ECM/Katche albums sound a bit like The Yellowjackets Blue Hats-era.
FWIW, I do not consider The Yellowjackets to be Smooth Jazz. At one time. they were maybe a Jazz Fusion-Funk band (the earlier stuff with Ricky Lawson/Robben Ford/Marc Russo)...Mintzer & Will Kennedy took them somewhere else...and it was not smoothsville.

 

[Pacman]

Agree with JimK - I do not consider the 'Jackets smooth. Recently, I've been seriously digging the Damian Erskine station on Pandora. Just killer, killer stuff.

 

[abstractart06]

I listen to Fourplay, Special EFX, George Benson, Sade, and Mark Antoine. All great music for whatever I'm doing, or not doing.

 

[Roy Vogt]

Bass on the Broadband.

http://www.bassonthebroadband.com/index.html

+1

 

[MonetBass]

Acoustic Alchemy, Boney James, Rick Braun, Candy Dulfer (funky), +1 to Fourplay, Joe Sample, Peter White, Steve Oliver.... to name a few.

 

[phillybass101]

Bass on the Broadband.

http://www.bassonthebroadband.com/index.html

+1 on this