SmoothJazz.com Press

Bassist Nathan East returns to Sandy Shore's Jazz Weekender event, which takes place at Quail Lodge & Golf Club in Carmel Valley over Valentine's Weekend.

Things just got a lot better for contemporary jazz recording artists… the SmoothJazz.com Top 100 and Top 100 INDIE Charts present a bigger picture of the New Music landscape for radio programmers as well as music consumers by presenting a weekly panorama of 100 of the most played Smooth Jazz albums in the world! 

Now with twice as many albums on each chart, with airplay reporting provided by a large,

Top Pebble Beach and Carmel realtor, KIM DIBENEDETTO (

SmoothJazz.com President

Love is in the air! Let the celebration begin! If you’re going to do something exceptional with a special someone to celebrate Valentine’s Day, you’ve probably already made some

In Celebration of the Monterey Jazz Festival, SmoothJazz.com Co-founder & VP Donna Phillips, talks about the global appeal of JAZZ  with Paulette Lynch, host of YourTown.TV. In this interview, Donna, tells the story of how and why the SmoothJazz.com platform was invented to broaden the appeal of Jazz music, artists and lifestyle events worldwide since it's growth from an online ticket outlet for Radio Personality, Sandy Shore's Monterey Peninsula Concerts to the world's most far reaching

Just as the Monterey Bay is in the center of the iconic California coastline... SMOOTHJAZZ.COM is at the heart of the global Smooth Jazz community; the hub for this lifestyle music genre. Rustic yet cosmopolitan, sophisticated yet relaxed. We entwine the on-line, multimedia music platform with its own unique musical gathering at Quail Lodge & Golf Club in Carmel.

California radio personality and SmoothJazz.com founder, SANDY SHORE has envisioned an

Smooth jazz is a chameleon. It is stepping out of a club and into the cool streets of New York City at dawn. It is sitting behind a pair of retro-square sunglasses while sipping a mojito in Majorca. It’s coffee that’s gone cold, sheets that are still warm, rivulets of rain down a window, watching a pretty woman dance. It is not your grandfather’s jazz. But there’s a good chance he’d get the groove.

Sandy Shore got it really early. Raised in Pacific Grove, she was on the radio on Cannery Row at 15 and, ultimately, throughout California and across the country, with a voice like a

SmoothJazz.com stays ahead of the curve once again, by becoming the very first Internet Radio App to become available for download from the NEW Apple TV 4 App Store. Previous Apple TV versions did not have access to outside independent Apps until Apple TV 4. Directly after the release of our newly designed "Smooth Global" Mobile App for iOS & Android phones and tablets, we began development on our new Apple TV version of the App, to allow our Apple TV listeners to upgrade their listening experience to SmoothJazz.

On behalf of UNESCO and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, please accept my thanks for your contribution in support of the 2017 edition of International Jazz Day. Due in part to your efforts, the worldwide celebration on April 30 was a resounding success.

As you know, the reach of this year's Jazz Day extended well outside the Global Host City of Havana, Cuba. I am pleased to note that programs again took place in over 190 UNESCO member states. Furthermore, more than one millions people around the world enjoyed the spectacular concert from the Gran Teatro de La Habana via