I had been looking for a song for almost ten years.
When the first programs that recognized songs appeared and I think it was "midomi" or something like that. I sang the song, but I didn't recognize it, then I did it I think with Shazam and finally with the google phone search engine, but I couldn't find it until a few days ago.
The song is called "Crazy for you", but goolge always told me it was by Madonna and it wasn't that.
In the end it turned out to be from a band called Incognito. But to my surprise, the song sounded better than I remembered it. And when I look for more songs from this band I found several Live on YouTube and I am amazed. And I said ..This is the music I always look for.
Because I had listened to Jamiroquai before, because once a friend told me, “hey, you should listen to this”, and he brought me a Jamiroquai Cassette, ha! if it was a long time ago. But I never found what style of music it was, that is, all the songs I always found were "Hits" but I wanted to listen to the music itself, the essence of that sound, I mean, the root of the genre. And I'm still thirsty for more, because I'm like a fool listening to the bass lines, sax lines, flute lines, the Rhodes, etc.
I leave you the link.

After all this boring story I ask you:

What genre is this music really? How could I find more bands where, for example, one time a saxophone solo, then the bass, then a Rhodes solo, doing exactly this style. I don't know if I make myself understood. That it is not all sung, but that each instrument works its magic.

 

It's just modern Jazz. The fans of it get very into wether things are Fusion, R+B styles, etc. It's it's own entire musical universe, to an outsider like me. The player is Jamie Anderson on the sax, why don't you google him and go from there if you like his work. It's pretty clear he plays with these other cats somewhat frequently. (I guess they could just be that good), but it looks like some practice jams to me, for certain.

https://music.metason.net/artistinfo?name=Jamie Anderson (2)

 

Dude that's Incognito. They're an Acid Jazz Band, following what the late great Chic Correa & Stanley Clarke had been doing ever since the 70s Jazz Fusion with their band Return to Forever.
The late great George Duke & Billy Cobham Band, Drummer Lenny White. All from the 70s Jazz Fusion era. I really miss those days. Great quality music done by quality musician. Prince & Sheila E
All aforementioned artist have performed some of the absolute best Jazz Fusion, Acid Jazz I have ever heard.
Even certain core members of Parliament-Funkadelic

-BiG Pluck

 

I find musipedia https://www.musipedia.org/js_piano.html more reliable when you click/type in the melody, but it's more suited for classical

Jamiroquai does funk, among other things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamiroquai . His album "A Funk Odyssey–Rock Dust Light Star" should give you a hint.

 

There were so many remixes of Jamiroquai tunes back mid/late 90s ish. I always thought the "acid" term was added to the more dj-centric productions; where they would add trip-hop style beats using those turntable record playing devices and other electronics. Is this just when it became so prevalent in turntablism? (and hiphop ala Digable Planets/Tribe called Quest,etc)

This would be an old favorite of that variety. it's from 96 and if you have never heard this one, it will still blow you away. :

 

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Elevator music has come so far.

 

You'll find Incognito on the smooth jazz radio stations all over the the Internet, with Spyrogyra and other similar artists.

 

What is this style, it sounds different from the others. It has something very in common with the song "crazy for you" from incognito. The piano doing something like stacatto, the bass with short notes, in the chorus those constant strings in a note that reaches your soul. Isn't this kind of song a specific genre?