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Terrestrial FM Jazz "LIVE JAZZ SHOW" Listing

BillyBatts · 2017-03-22T22:10:18+00:00

Aloha! A few of us have been chatting about our favorite Live FM Jazz "Shows" and where to find them, so it was decided that we'd keep a list of them. This is NOT simply a generic list of stations that broadcast Jazz, but a list of particular LIVE JAZZ SHOWS that a station is producing for broadcast. These are shows that have a LIVE On-Air Personality that is choosing what to play and conversing with the audience - i.e., actually talking about the music he/she is playing. If the show is syndicated, pre-recorded, or canned from a network source, I have made note of that. There are some excellent "live" shows that are pre-recorded, so those are good to list as well. If you currently listen to a live Jazz show via terrestiral radio, please feel free to list it. If you just want to give kudos to a Jazz station that you listen to, that's fine as well. All comments are welcome as long as they pertain to a station that is playing Jazz. Here are the shows I currently listen to with links to the websites and day/time that the show airs including notes on each show; -------------------------------------------------------------------- SATURDAY All times Eastern; 8:00 AM - Weekends with Alan Rock on WUCF - www.wucf.org (note 1) 12:00 PM - Jazz on the Beach with Jack Simpson - www.wucf.org (note 2) 4:00 PM - Gifts and Messages with Dr. Jazz - www.whyr.org (also available on Mixcloud) (note 3) SUNDAY All times Eastern; 2:00 PM - Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride on WCBE - www.wcbe.org (Note 4) 3:00 PM - Jazz Sunday with Jack Marchbanks and KC Jones on WCBE - www.wcbe.org (Note 5) (This show runs 3 hours and OVERLAPS CJRT's Big Band Jazz Show by 1 hour) 5:00 PM - Big Band Jazz Show with Glen Woodcock on CJRT - www.jazz.fm (Note 6) (This show runs 5 hours and OVERLAPS WLRN's Night Train Jazz Show by 2 hours) 8:00 PM - Night Train Jazz with Uncle Ted Grossman on WLRN - www.wlrn.org (Note 7) MONDAY All times Eastern Noon - 3 PM - Hot Club On The Air with Matt Fat Cat Rivera on WKCR - www.wkcr.org Matt Rivera hosts an awesome 3 hour 78 RPM classic Jazz show from his private shellac collection of vintage 78 albums. If you like the beginnings of Jazz through the early 50s when 78 RPM finally was retired, then this show is for you. You can view and listen to the archive HERE. TUESDAY All times Eastern 10:00 PM - Radio Deluxe with John Pizzarelli on CJRT - www.jazz.fm (also available on Mixcloud) (Note 8) This is a syndicated show and can be found on other Jazz stations as well at differnt times WEDNESDAY All times Eastern 9:00 PM - Night Lights with David Brent Johnson (Note 9) www.wdcb.org This is a syndicated show that can be found on other Jazz stations as well as directly ON LINE via two sources. Indiana Public Radio and PRX Website MONDAY - SATURDAY All times Eastern 9:00 PM - Jazz Oasis (Various Hosts) https://kcsm.org/jazzprograms/jazzoasis.php (Note 10) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes; For all of these shows, you can stream directly from the websites or from 3rd party applications like Tunein. Some stations also stream via Apple Radio and are uploaded for playback to Mixcloud.com. WUCF streams in very high quality (I believe 256kbps) and you will notice this. The others stream between 64kpbs and 128kbps. 1.) Alan Rock is a hoot, I'm guessing his age at 75 plus years. He's very Jazz savvy. He runs a "fun" show. He plays Jazz, tells corny jokes, and he asks trivia questions where you call in to answer them, He loves when you call him. I've called him from Hawaii a few times and he likes it when "streaming listeners" call in from thousands of miles away, and he mentions that you called on the air. This is a really fun Jazz show. Yes, he plays great Jazz too. 2.) Jack Simpson sounds like he is as old as dirt. If I had to guess, I'd say 80 years old plus. But the man knows GREAT Jazz and knows just about all the background about every album and cut he plays. I truly enjoy his show. As an added bonus, Jack's shows are now all archived since Jack has retired, and this is a good thing. Not only can you hear his shows from up to 10 years ago, but Jack also encapsulated the awesome PBS Jazz show "Jazz Revisited" with Hazen Shumacher within the last 1/2 hour of his show. "Jazz Revisited" focused on the first three decades of of early recorded American Jazz from 1917 - 1947. This show was purchased by a German company and is in copyright lockdown. So having this show available in any form is amazing. Thanks to Jack's show, you can still listen to various "Jazz Revisited" shows as well, so this is a double-headder treat. 3.) Poppachubby turned me on to this show last year. Dr. Jazz runs an interesting 2 hours show from Baton Rouge, LA, but plays a broad spectrum of Jazz. His show is uploaded to Mixcloud so you can listen any time via www.mixcloud.com to any of his shows as they are all there. Hundreds of hours. 4.) Jazz Night in America is like a Jazz Documentary show. Each show concentrates on a specific artist or theme. Christian McBride is the "host" and it is a very worthwhile 1 hour show to learn about Jazz "artist-by-artist". This is an NPR Syndicated show. You can catch it on various NPR stations nationwide at various times or via the website http://www.npr.org/series/347139849/jazz-night-in-america 5.) Jazz Sunday is without a doubt my favorite Live Jazz show. I've been listening for well over a decade. I discoverd the show by accident one day steraming around looking for "LIVE" Jazz feature shows. Jack Marchbanks and KC Jones co-host the show and the variety is vast. They are highly knowledgable (guessing both are in their mid to late 50's) and play supreme Jazz to my taste. They are very personalble. Jack responds to emails and Facebook immeiately and you can call them and chat. I record this show weekly as it overlaps "Big Band Jazz' at CJRT by 1 hour. 6.) The Big Band Jazz Show with Glen Woodcock on CJRT is the longest running Jazz show with the same host in history. Glen started broadcasting in 1977. He's a great guy and he and I have become email pen-pals. He dedicated one of his shows to me, playing a lot of Woody Herman. Long story on that for another time. I love Big Band and never miss his show. I record his show as well as it is overlapped by WCBE's Jazz Sunday and it overlaps WLRN's Night Train Jazz. 7.) Uncle Ted Grossman's "Night Train Jazz" is probably the most interesting of the bunch. It is similar to CJRT's Big Band Jazz Show, but takes diversions into Trios and Quartets where needed. Ted Grossman has a HUGE collection of old Jazz Vinyl from the 30's and 40's. He is a walking Jazz encyclopedia, and the show is amazing to listen to. Nobody knows more about 30's-40's era Jazz than Uncle Ted. Listen one evening and you'll get that fact quickly. He's been collecting that era's vinyl since the late 60's. 8.) The most engrossing show for me used to be "Radio Deluxe" with John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey. John is Bucky Pizzarelli's son and Jessica is John's wife. The two do the show from their living room and chat about Jazz as much as they play it. It's very conversational and you feel like you are sitting on their couch and chatting Jazz with them. But you never know what you are going to hear. You can hear anything from Bing Crosby to Steely Dan. It used to be 90 percent Jazz for sure, but with a twist. At times it' was very elegant. Unfortunately lately the playlists have seemed to shift heavily to Broadway show tunes. Jessica is a Broadway singer. This has brought the show down quite a few notches on my favorite list. However, the conversation between the two is fascinating. John and his father Bucky have played with most of the legends in Jazz, so he has amazing stories that he shares. You can catch this show on www.mixcloud.com any time you want. All of the shows are there. Hundreds of hours. As I noted above, this is a syndicated show, so you can also catch it from the syndication website or via other terrestrial radio stations at different days and times. www.radiodeluxe.com 9.) This is an incredible show that escaped my attention until I stumbled upon it via WDCB. It has been airing since 2004 and you can listen to archives on the website https://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/ going back to the first broadcast in 2004. The host is incredibly knowledgable regarding classic era Jazz. The format is one Jazz artist or time period per show as the focus. It's 1/3 documentary and 2/3 listening to the music that supports the documentary discussion. 10.) A nightly Jazz show that is relaxing and captivating. Each night has a different host so the formats vary somewhat. My favorite is the Saturday evening show with Michael Burman. I'd classify this as "Evening Jazz" that is good for dining or relaxing or reading. --------------- Stations mentioned above; WCBE - Columbus (Not a full time Jazz Station) WLRN - Miami (Not a full time Jazz Station) CJRT - Toronto (Full time Jazz) WUCF - Orlando (Full time Jazz) WHYR - Baton Rouge (Not a full time Jazz Station) WDCB - Chicago KCSM - San Francisco WKCR - New York Honorable mentions for regular Jazz listening are; KSDS - San Diego WBGO - New York (technically New Jersey) KNKX - Seattle (streaming found via jazz24.org)

Thread starter BillyBatts
Start date Mar 22, 2017
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