Smokey

"Touch the Sky" is a 1983 album by American singer Smokey Robinson. It was produced and arranged by Robinson with Reginald "Sonny" Burke, and recorded and mixed at Golden Sound Studios in Hollywood, California. The album was released on the Motown sub-label Tamla. Fellow Miracles members Claudette Robinson, then Smokey's wife, joins for background vocals on the title track, Marv Tarplin is featured on rhythm guitar and songwriting. Also featured are Robinson regulars Fred Smith and Michael Jacobsen, and Sonny Burke. Called one of his "underrated" releases by Rolling Stone, the album contains the top 10 R&B hit "I've Made Love To You A Thousand Times" and the title track, also issued as a single.

Johannes Mueller JAZZ MILE invites us on a historical-musical ex-course to one of the most impulsive places of jazz. It's 9:48 pm and we're just strolling through the smoky Frenchmen Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. A saxophone is heard from afar, it carries the melody and is rhythmically supported by contra-bass and drums. A short listen to other sides, in this case trumpet and a piano. As we arrive in front of the "Snug Harbor", a very traditional jazz bar, we see Johannes Mueller in his favorite bar with his saxophone and his band JAZZ MILE on stage. It could have happened like that.