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quiet storm
Quiet storm is a radio format, musical style,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Quiet Storm )〕 and subgenre of R&B, pioneered in the mid 1970s by then-intern Melvin Lindsey at Washington, D.C. radio station WHUR-FM, featuring soulful slow jams. Smokey Robinson's like-titled hit single, "A Quiet Storm", released in 1975 as the title track to his third solo album, lent its name to the format and to the radio program that introduced it to the public. Encompassing a mix of African-American music genres, quiet storm music is distinguished by understated, mellow dynamics and relaxed tempos and rhythms. It can be soothingly pensive, or express romantic sentiment. Quiet storm music is similar to soft rock styles, but it is more closely and unmistakably rooted in R&B and soul music, often with jazz extensions.
Today, quiet storm is a broad term given to an array of mellow, slow-groove contemporary R&B, soul and smooth jazz offerings of the type featured on Melvin Lindsey's WHUR program, and on myriad other stations that followed his lead—most notably KBLX-FM〔(kblx.com )〕 in San Francisco, which in 1979 became the first radio station in the U.S. to present a 24-hour quiet storm format (which lasted 32 years, until the station was acquired in April 2011 by Entercom Broadcasting and converted to straight-ahead Urban AC format).
== Characteristics ==
According to music journalist Jason King, quiet storm developed as a subgenre analogous to soft rock because it emphasized the more tender qualities of R&B:
Ben Fong-Torres of ''Rolling Stone'' called the genre a "blend of pop, jazz fusion, and R&B ballads--all elegant and easy-flowing, like a flute of Veuve Clicquot champagne".〔
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