Latest Release
- 26 JAN 2024
- 10 Songs
- Smoothe Urban Jazz · 2002
- Smoothe Urban Jazz · 2002
- Smooth Urban Jazz: The Slow Jamz Album · 2004
- Smooth Urban Jazz: The Slow Jamz Album · 2004
- Sexy Love · 2005
- Smoothe Urban Jazz · 2002
- Smooth Urban Jazz: The Slow Jamz Album · 2004
- Sexy Love · 2005
- Streetwize Does Mary J. Blige · 2008
- Sexy Love · 2005
- 2024
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- 2009
- 2006
Singles & EPs
- 2020
About Streetwize
Streetwize is a charting contemporary jazz studio recording project led by saxophonist Kim Waters. His regular collaborators include vocalist Maysa Leak and guitarist Ken Navarro; the rest of the lineup fluctuates according to need. Since 2002's Streetwize: Smooth Urban Jazz, they have almost exclusively recorded jazz covers of contemporary rap and R&B hits. Their sophomore date, Work It, went all the way to number two on the contemporary jazz charts. 2006's Does Dre was their first to focus on a single artist. 2012's Feelin' Sexy offered ballads and 21st century love songs; it went to number three, as did the following year's Body Party. 2015's Does the Divas was the project's first to focus exclusively on female vocalists. After a five-year hiatus, Waters brought the group back for 2020's Ocean Eyes. Lift Me Up appeared in 2024.
- ORIGIN
- New York, NY, United States
- FORMED
- 2002
- GENRE
- Jazz