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PrintabletheAudience said: daPrettyman said: I don't think Brian will be doing The Wave show for too long.
If he's got any financial savvy (and it doesn't cause a contractual snafu), in this financial climate, he'd do both and snag the extra check. tA  Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 It depends on who owns The Wave. There are FCC rules about working for different media outlets. **--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••-
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theAudience said: Unfortunately, the local Snooze-jazz station (94.7 - The Wave) is still on the air here.
Relative to your other post, Brian McKnight is the co-host of their morning show... 
...along with Pat Prescott. He took the place of former co-host and Snooze-jazz stalwart Dave Koz. tA Tribal Disorder
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Timmy84 said: theAudience said: A "marketing" one. This was a ploy to keep from calling this genre what it had been called in the past...Easy Listening. Not hip by their standards although totally accurate. So they prostituted the term Jazz and got away with it. To make sure they wouldn't get stuck having to actually play any real Jazz, add the word Smooth and you're off the hook. And even then they couldn't stick with artists that played...choke...Smooth jazz. A total scam. tA Tribal Disorder
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JackieBlue said: Are there many jazz stations around? There's still one left in my area all the way at the end of the dial where most people don't go. They play Marsalis, Dave Brubeck, Count Basie, Ellington, Diane Reeves and so on for jazz lovers.
We have two public radio stations in Detroit that play jazz. One plays classical music from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. and then jazz from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. The other plays jazz nightly from 9 p.m. to midnight (although they used to play it from 7 p.m. to midnight). And then, being that we're just across the river from Windsor, Canada, we also get one of their stations that also mixes classical and jazz--and a whole host of other genres. | |
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daPrettyman said: Timmy84 said: Was there ever a real market for it?  Surprisingly, yes. I think it was mostly businesses and instrumental r&b fans kept this format alive. I was never a big fan of the format, but I did enjoy some artists like Jonathan Butler and Fourplay. Since you're in Dallas, do you know if the Oasis ever came back? That was our Smooth Jazz station and they died a few years ago.  | |
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SCNDLS said: daPrettyman said: Surprisingly, yes. I think it was mostly businesses and instrumental r&b fans kept this format alive. I was never a big fan of the format, but I did enjoy some artists like Jonathan Butler and Fourplay. Since you're in Dallas, do you know if the Oasis ever came back? That was our Smooth Jazz station and they died a few years ago. Nope. It will never come back. I used to work with their staff and the higher ups (CBS Radio) dropped all of their smooth jazz formats. The crazy thing was that Dallas was one of the few markets where the format made money. Not to mention they always had good numbers. Especially when Myke Julius and Tim Garrison were there. **--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••-
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daPrettyman said: SCNDLS said: Since you're in Dallas, do you know if the Oasis ever came back? That was our Smooth Jazz station and they died a few years ago. Nope. It will never come back. I used to work with their staff and the higher ups (CBS Radio) dropped all of their smooth jazz formats. The crazy thing was that Dallas was one of the few markets where the format made money. Not to mention they always had good numbers. Especially when Myke Julius and Tim Garrison were there. I used to go to their Jazz brunch at the Intercontinental and they used to sponsor great concerts too. Radio sucks. | |
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SCNDLS said: daPrettyman said: Nope. It will never come back. I used to work with their staff and the higher ups (CBS Radio) dropped all of their smooth jazz formats. The crazy thing was that Dallas was one of the few markets where the format made money. Not to mention they always had good numbers. Especially when Myke Julius and Tim Garrison were there. I used to go to their Jazz brunch at the Intercontinental and they used to sponsor great concerts too. Radio sucks. Yeah, they did have some nice concerts. I used to love the ones they had in downtown Fort Worth on top of a building. It was the perfect setting to enjoy a concert. **--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••-
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NuPwr319 said: JackieBlue said: Are there many jazz stations around? There's still one left in my area all the way at the end of the dial where most people don't go. They play Marsalis, Dave Brubeck, Count Basie, Ellington, Diane Reeves and so on for jazz lovers.
We have two public radio stations in Detroit that play jazz. One plays classical music from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. and then jazz from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. The other plays jazz nightly from 9 p.m. to midnight (although they used to play it from 7 p.m. to midnight). And then, being that we're just across the river from Windsor, Canada, we also get one of their stations that also mixes classical and jazz--and a whole host of other genres. That's pretty extensive. I'm afraid one day it won't be on the radio at all. Been gone for a minute, now I'm back with the jump off | |
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I was an unapologetic smooth jazz fan for most of the 90s and longed for a station in my city. A lot of tunes I liked back then haven't work well over time but much of Nelson Rangell, Najee, and Boney James still get spun at my house. | |
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I really dislike the Smooth Jazz format.
I was going to start a thread asking for someone to define what it was. On the Smooth Jazz station here in Detroit, I have heard everything from the Fuguees to the Spinners. It seems to be a hodge podge of instrumental versions of r&b songs, old school r&b, easy listening, urban AC songs and the occasional slow hip hop song. | |
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theAudience said: namepeace said: Somebody who wanted to lend artistic credibility to R&B instrumentals and early 90's-style ballads. A "marketing" one. This was a ploy to keep from calling this genre what it had been called in the past...Easy Listening. Not hip by their standards although totally accurate. So they prostituted the term Jazz and got away with it. To make sure they wouldn't get stuck having to actually play any real Jazz, add the word Smooth and you're off the hook. And even then they couldn't stick with artists that played...choke...Smooth jazz. A total scam. tA Tribal Disorder
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PurpleCharm said: I really dislike the Smooth Jazz format.
I was going to start a thread asking for someone to define what it was. On the Smooth Jazz station here in Detroit, I have heard everything from the Fuguees to the Spinners. It seems to be a hodge podge of instrumental versions of r&b songs, old school r&b, easy listening, urban AC songs and the occasional slow hip hop song. I never heard any Fugees when we had a Smooth Jazz station, but I did hear quite a bit of r&b thrown in. They used to play "The Body That loves You" from Janet on a regular basis when the album came out. That was also about the same time when Norman Brown redid That's The Way Love Goes as an instrumental. I think it depends on the section of the country you are living in. I think for the most part, most smooth jazz formats stick to their core artists like Boney James, Bob James, Steely Dan, Jonathan Butler, Peter White, Stanley Clarke, etc. As for vocalists, I tend to hear quite a bit of Dianah Kraull, Sade, George Benson, and Donald Fagan. On XM/Sirius, they have some pretty good smooth jazz stations. Spa tends to play futuristic stuff that I have never heard of. A lot of it is very experimental. They also tend to mix in other "normal" smooth jazz also. Watercolors is your typical smooth jazz station. Lots of insstrumental r&b stuff being played there. **--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••-
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