Anyone here like the Smooth Jazz format?

[comfortably_numb]

I was in Las Vegas this past weekend and discovered 91.5 KUNV. It's the classic Smooth Jazz format with some vocals mixed in.

Listener supported, no commercials. Very professionally programmed.

Live stream: Listen – KUNV Radio

 

[EarDemon]

Been streaming smoothjazz.com using Winamp since 2002, been listening to Watercolors on XM since 2003 (and Jazz Cafe on Sirius when they were separate companies). While it mostly all sounds the same to me, I can pick out Michael Lington and his sax in a second.

 

[comfortably_numb]

I like the fact that this is a live FM station with real DJ's and is educating students at UNLV on how to operate a radio station. I hope to make a donation soon.

 

[Don in CT]

I prefer real jazz.

 

[comfortably_numb]

I prefer real jazz.

Smooth Jazz isn't real jazz??!

 

[Don in CT]

Smooth Jazz isn't real jazz??!

It's pop jazz.

 

[Don in CT]

Real jazz is based off of blues.

 

[comfortably_numb]

It's better than no jazz.

 

[Howard Simmons]

It's better than no jazz.

Amen!!! I'll try to find it on my internet radio and see if it's there. Thank You.

 

[comfortably_numb]

If you have an Echo, you can enable it by saying "Alexa, add KUNV." Then tell her "Alexa, play KUNV."

 

[Howard Simmons]

If you have an Echo, you can enable it by saying "Alexa, add KUNV." Then tell her "Alexa, play KUNV."

It's bad enough trying to talk to my remote on Dish. I've goy enough stuff to talk to besides Alexa.

 

[DJdish]

I do like Smooth Jazz, no vocals, maybe with a very few exceptions.

And I concur that smooth jazz is not the same as Jazz (classical or "real") very different.

I think the term Smooth Jazz started being used around the time Kenny G became known, and his music was played on the weather channel.

I find this track by Paul Hardcastle very soothing.

 

[harshness]

If you like a broader variety of Jazz (from Dixieland to sounds that only Jazz musicians could appreciate), give a listen to KMHD.org. They have been operating on the campus of Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon for a long time and went into partnership with the area PBS group (Oregon Public Broadcasting) a couple of years ago.

Just don't try to listen during a pledge period.

I'll be listening to the "Trad Jazz Show" later this morning.

 

[Art7220]

I think www.smoothjazz.com is still on. Also www.wave.fm

 

[EarDemon]

Like with any music genre, there are plenty of subgenres. In addition to smooth jazz, I used to listen the nu jazz/acid jazz format that was on Beyond Jazz on XM and Planet Jazz on Sirius.

 

[DJdish]

For those Smooth Jazz fans, here submitted for your approval (a Rod Serling's phrase), is
the following track:

 

[Howard Simmons]

For those Smooth Jazz fans, here submitted for your approval (a Rod Serling's phrase), is
the following track:

That's the kind I listen to on Watercolors on XM.

 

[DJdish]

Relaxinjazz.com Ad Free Smooth Jazz is another option

 

[The Fat Man]

I'm not a fan of smooth jazz as a kind of music, but I know that radio.com app and iheart has stations streaming from HD-2s across the country.

 

[DJdish]

This one I haven't heard in most Smooth Jazz stations