Somewhere between the smooth silkiness of R&B and the technically proficient slickness of jazz lies the genre known as quiet storm, which artists like Kenny Ghave given quite the bad reputation over the years. With its programmed beats, tepid grooves, overstylized production, and substitution of prepackaged romance for genuine passion, the genre's cheesy elements are easy to make fun of. So it's a bit of surprise to hear a cheesy shmaltzmeister like Richard Elliott signed to Verve's subsidiary label, GRP. Though he has solid enough chops, Elliott's sax soloing is virtually indistinguishable from any number of similar artists of the genre.