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Matchbox Twenty
Matchbox Twenty
American band
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Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas
American singer
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Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana
Mexican and American rock musician
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Santana
Santana
American band led by Carlos Santana
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Paquito D'Rivera
Paquito D'Rivera
Cuban musician
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Dave Koz
Dave Koz
American jazz saxophonist
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Jeff Lorber
Jeff Lorber
American keyboardist, composer, and record producer
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Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Jeff Bhasker
Jeff Bhasker
American musician
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Mindi Abair
Mindi Abair
American smooth jazz saxophonist
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Tom Lord-Alge
Tom Lord-Alge
American record producer
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Jessy J
Jessy J
American musician
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Mike Stern
Mike Stern
American jazz guitarist
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David Benoit
David Benoit
American jazz pianist, composer and producer (born 1953)
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Bill Cunliffe
Bill Cunliffe
American musician
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Sade
Sade
British band
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Dave Valentin
Dave Valentin
American musician
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David Sanborn
David Sanborn
American saxophonist
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Ben Tankard
Ben Tankard
American musician
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John Scofield
John Scofield
American jazz guitarist and composer
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Armando Peraza
Armando Peraza
Cuban percussionist
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Nathan East
Nathan East
American musician
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The Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers
American musical group
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Horacio Hernandez
Horacio Hernandez
Cuban musician
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Take 6
Take 6
American a cappella gospel music group
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Terri Lyne Carrington
Terri Lyne Carrington
American jazz drummer, composer, record producer and entrepreneur
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Tim Hagans
Tim Hagans
American musician
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Gregory Porter
Gregory Porter
American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actor
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Brad Mehldau
Brad Mehldau
American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
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Dan Shea
Dan Shea
American record producer
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Clive Davis
Clive Davis
American record producer and music executive
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Barbara Higbie
Barbara Higbie
American musician
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Philip Bailey
Philip Bailey
American R&B, soul, gospel and funk singer, songwriter, percussionist and actor
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Andy Summers
Andy Summers
British guitarist
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The Product G&B
The Product G&B
american duo
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Donald Fagen
Donald Fagen
American recording artist, musician, best known as co-founder and lead singer of the rock band Steely Dan.
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Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand
French film score composer (1932-2019)
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Randy Brecker
Randy Brecker
American flugelhorn and trumpet player (1945-)
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Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor
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Brian Setzer
Brian Setzer
American singer
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Maxwell
Maxwell
American singer-songwriter, record producer and multi-instrumentalist
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Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal
American Blues musician famous for incorporating elements of world music
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Roy Thomas Baker
Roy Thomas Baker
British record producer
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Billy Childs
Billy Childs
American jazz pianist
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Norman Brown
Norman Brown
Smooth jazz guitarist
Itaal Shur
Composer, record producer, musician

Itaal Shur

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Composer, record producer, musician
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Itaal Shur is an American composer, producer and musician. He has written songs for a number of musicians, including Maxwell, Jewel and Enrique Iglesias, and has produced records for various artists, including Kronos Quartet, The Scumfrog and Lucy Woodward. He was the founding member of the acid jazz group Groove Collective, and has released three solo albums.

One of Shur's most notable works is the song "Smooth", which he co-wrote with Matchbox 20's Rob Thomas for Santana's Grammy Award winning album Supernatural. "Smooth" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1999, and won Shur and Thomas the 1999 Grammy Award for Song of the Year.