Trumpeter Cindy Bradley is a successful artist and educator with a bent toward smooth jazz and instrumental pop. After making her full-length debut with 2007's Just a Little Bit, she topped the Billboard smooth jazz chart for the first time a year later with Bloom. Establishing regular appearances on the overall jazz chart thereafter, she reached the jazz Top Five with albums including 2014's Bliss and the R&B-tinged The Little Things from 2019.