Smooth jazz is a musical genre derived fundamentally from jazz, with stylistic characteristics akin to fusion, pop and funk that make it more commercially usable to a wider range of listeners than traditional jazz. It was born in the 1970s, and gained great popularity in the 1980s and 1990s ʳᵒᵇᵉʳᵗᵒᵐᵒʳᵉᵗᵗᵒ
