Buoyant, accessible and executed with advanced musicianship, “Over Easy” from new album ‘Simpatico’ exemplifies what Jazz Funk Soul is about.

Incognito’s ‘Into You’ will lift spirits with craft grooves from start to finish because there are no sag points.

Jeff Lorber shows no sign of running out of fuel, and ‘The Drop’ shows he’s putting everything into his craft today, just as he did some 30 albums ago.

Some might quibble over whether this is contemporary, smooth or crossover jazz. It’s actually a hybrid from Everette Harp, Jeff Lorber and Paul Jackson Jr.

With ‘Reasons,’ nothing has changed much in Lindsey Webster’s craftsmanship and style; it remains quality soul-satisfying music for grown-ups.

Here is “I Didn’t Mean It,” a new smooth groovin’ single from jazz-pop songstress Lindsey Webster with a nice assist from Brian Culbertson’s trombone.

‘Space-Time’ doesn’t miss a beat – or a luscious lick or a great groove. It’s more of the same ol’ Jeff Lorber Fusion, and that’s just fine.

Even when Bluey makes you think, he never loses sight of music’s main mission to make you feel good and make you move on his latest solo groover ‘Tinted Sky.’

Bluey might owe much of his mannerisms to George Benson, but the Incognito linchpin’s main stock-in-trade has always been his grooves.

Soul-jazz songstress queen Lindsey Webster succeeds not by keeping up with current trends but instead through mastering the little time-honored things.