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Real Jazz: 67 Mainstream, Traditional, Fusion, Acid Satellite Sirius XM Satellite Radio: N/A N/A Website: Watercolors: 66 Smooth Jazz Satellite Sirius XM Satellite Radio N/A N/A Website: WAEG: 92.3 MHz Smooth Jazz Terrestrial Perry Broadcasting: Evans Georgia (U.S. state) Website: WAJH: 91.1 MHz Smooth Jazz Terrestrial Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame ...
Blues - Blues music from the early artists of the 1920s to present day. Jazz - Traditional and contemporary jazz mix that utilizes traditional jazz elements. Singers & Swing - big band, swing & adult standards. Smooth Jazz; Stage & Screen* - Music from film, television themes, and Broadway.
KKJZ (88.1 MHz FM, "KJazz 88.1") is a non-commercial public radio station in Southern California.The station is the #1 full-time jazz and blues station in the United States. The California State University, Long Beach Research Foundation owns the non-commercial broadcast license for KKJZ; as a public radio station, it is funded by contributions from listener-members and other donors.
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
In 2012, the station's management Global Jazz cut a full day from the blues program. [5] During his 2012 summer pledge drive, Wagner successfully led an on-air revolt to bring back the Saturday show. Listeners overwhelmingly stepped up to demonstrate their commitment to the blues, and the additional day of blues programming was reinstated.
Live at Carnegie Hall: An Acoustic Evening debuted on the US Billboard 200 at number 64. [9] The album also topped the Blues Albums chart, [10] and reached number 5 on the Independent Albums chart, [11] number 10 on the Top Rock Albums chart, [12] number 21 on the Tastemaker Albums chart, [13] and number 23 on the Digital Albums chart. [14]
Music journalist Richie Unterberger commented on the adaptability of blues: "From its inception, the blues has always responded to developments in popular music as a whole: the use of guitar and piano in American folk and gospel, the percussive rhythms of jazz, the lyrics of Tin Pan Alley, and the widespread use of amplification and electric ...
The mid- to late-1970s included songs "Breezin'" as performed by another smooth jazz pioneer, guitarist George Benson in 1976, the instrumental composition "Feels So Good" by flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione, in 1978, "What You Won't Do for Love" by Bobby Caldwell along with his debut album was released the same year, jazz fusion group Spyro Gyra's instrumental "Morning Dance", released in ...