Everything Jazz

In the early 1980s, a less than heavy commercial kind of jazz fusion called pop fusion or “smooth jazz” became successful and garnered significant radio airplay, with smooth jazz saxophonists such as Grover Washington, Jr. and Najee. Smooth jazz received lots of airplay across the U.S., helping to push the careers of jazz vocalists. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a number of subgenres combined jazz with mainstream music, such as Acid jazz, nu jazz, and jazz rap. Acid jazz and nu jazz combined elements of jazz and modern forms of electronic dance music.