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Slow jam
A slow jam is music with rhythm and blues and soul influences. Slow jams are commonly R&B ballads or downtempo songs, and are mostly soft-sounding with heavily emotional or romantic lyrical content.
In radio#
In 1983, Kevin “Slow Jammin’” James created the radio show Slow Jam on WKYS, named after the Midnight Star song, then later the Weekend Slow Jam show. In 1994, R Dub! created the radio show Sunday Night Slow Jams on Power 1490 KJYK in Tucson, AZ. Today, Sunday Night Slow Jams can be heard on over 200 radio stations in 17 countries. In 2024, the mayors of San Diego, California and Tucson, Arizona proclaimed the date of June 21 to be “Slow Jams Day”, honoring the debut broadcast of Sunday Night Slow Jams with R Dub!.
See also#
- List of soul ballads
- List of contemporary R&B ballads
- Republic of Slowjamastan
- Genre family
- Contemporary R&B genres, Soul music genres