Once In A Blue Universe

Switching musical gears to some laid back Smooth Jazz/New Age for today's post. But fear not there is a Rock undertone to today's artist. Craig Chaquico has been making a name for himself since the early 70's. Getting his start towards the end of career of Jefferson Airplane and then helping start what would become Jefferson Starship and later Starship. And yes those are his guitar riffs in the infamously bad hit "We Built This City". We will overlook that for the time being and focus on his post Starship career.

After leaving Starship, Chaquico formed a short lived Hard Rock band called Big Bad Wolf, who released one self titled album in '98. But even prior to that he was releasing solo records as a Smooth Jazz/New Age artist. For this post we'll look at his '97 release 'Once In A Blue Universe'. Helped here by other Smooth Jazz icons like Dave Koz and Richard Elliott, this album is chock full of quality Smooth Jazz. Included here is a cover of the classic Traffic song "Feelin' Alright", which is a great take on the original. Outside of recording Chaquico has also contributed music to Movies and is a supporter of the American Music Therapy Association, which promotes the healing factors of music. This is one of those albums to break out after a long day or just on a day of doing nothing.

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