San Francisco Bay Area’s “The Smooth Jazz Alley” is made up of keyboardist/producer Marco Montoya, drummer/producer Kevin Lewis, and Saxophone artist Otoe Mori. Their music can best be defined as a ...
Professing love for Bob James' music can yield a side-eye in some circles. Jazz purists routinely view the keyboardist's 1970s period as a progenitor to smooth jazz — an idiom they frequently react to ...
In this episode of Backstage Sonoma, host Steven Roby sits down with the core members of The Smooth Jazz Alley--keyboardist and producer Marco Montoya, drummer and producer Kevin Lewis, and ...