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CELEBRATE LOCAL SMOOTH JAZZ JOCKS

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TAMPA:Kathy Curtis, Chris Curry, Al Santana, Alicia Kaye, George Nix
ATLANTA:Greg Fitzgerald, David Kosh, Rene Miller, Bob Baldwin (musician)
CLEVELAND:Tom Murphy, Mark Ribbins, Michael Greer, Michelle Chase
DETROIT:Alexander Zonjic (musician too!), Kevin Sanderson, Sandy Kovach, Jon Bond
FRESNO:Cheri Beasley, Steven Mikal Brown
FT. MYERS:Randi Bachman (I miss Joe Turner...with those two it was unofficially the Bachman-Turner OD)
WEST PALM BEACH:Stephanie Bromfield
SACRAMENTO:Susan Miller, Lynda Clayton, John McCorke, Doug Thomas
SAN DIEGO:Mike V., Lenny B., Kelly Cole, J. Weidenheimer, Tayari Howard, Shelly Fox, Ahmed. Eric J. Chambers
CHICAGO:Rick O'Dell, Danae Alexander
PHILADELPHIA:Michael Tozzi, Bill Simpson, Frank Childs, Gerald Veasley (musician), Deserie McRay
SEATTLE:Jim Dai, Gina Tuttle, Carol Handley, Jay Phillips, Diana Rose, Cedric James
LAS VEGAS:Dave Caprita, Dana Crawford, Lynn Briggs, Cat Lee, Barbara Blake

This isn't all of them, certainly not a comprehensive list, but these are the majors and it shows there's a dwindling number of fine talents in this genre of music. Just 2-3 years ago I wouldn't have had the time to post all the great names we've lost to network programming and format flips. We don't know the future of these guys. Some are doing extremely well (San Diego, Chicago, Sacramento, Tampa, Cleveland, Detroit, San Francisco, Seattle) and others are OK or are struggling. There are university-owned stations doing a great job with the music. The format is dying as the one we came up with but will evolve. I hope these folks are able to help create a new "wave" of the future via some communication avenue and talk to us and help us feel REAL contemporary jazz, whether it's smooth or heavy. Give us music. Best wishes to all of you and those not mentioned. This is an incredible time and a quite unpredictable one in radio and in the format we used to really love. But these are among our greatest communicators of the genre doing their best with the latitude given them. I've heard most of them and they are great. Let them not be stripped of an opportunity to give us the sound of the musicians working so hard to be heard right now. Those musicians need these guys and more great communicators out there.
 
cklw800 said:
TAMPA:Kathy Curtis, Chris Curry, Al Santana, Alicia Kaye, George Nix
ATLANTA:Greg Fitzgerald, David Kosh, Rene Miller, Bob Baldwin (musician)
CLEVELAND:Tom Murphy, Mark Ribbins, Michael Greer, Michelle Chase
DETROIT:Alexander Zonjic (musician too!), Kevin Sanderson, Sandy Kovach, Jon Bond
FRESNO:Cheri Beasley, Steven Mikal Brown
FT. MYERS:Randi Bachman (I miss Joe Turner...with those two it was unofficially the Bachman-Turner OD)
WEST PALM BEACH:Stephanie Bromfield
SACRAMENTO:Susan Miller, Lynda Clayton, John McCorke, Doug Thomas
SAN DIEGO:Mike V., Lenny B., Kelly Cole, J. Weidenheimer, Tayari Howard, Shelly Fox, Ahmed. Eric J. Chambers
CHICAGO:Rick O'Dell, Danae Alexander
PHILADELPHIA:Michael Tozzi, Bill Simpson, Frank Childs, Gerald Veasley (musician), Deserie McRay
SEATTLE:Jim Dai, Gina Tuttle, Carol Handley, Jay Phillips, Diana Rose, Cedric James
LAS VEGAS:Dave Caprita, Dana Crawford, Lynn Briggs, Cat Lee, Barbara Blake

This isn't all of them, certainly not a comprehensive list, but these are the majors and it shows there's a dwindling number of fine talents in this genre of music. Just 2-3 years ago I wouldn't have had the time to post all the great names we've lost to network programming and format flips. We don't know the future of these guys. Some are doing extremely well (San Diego, Chicago, Sacramento, Tampa, Cleveland, Detroit, San Francisco, Seattle) and others are OK or are struggling. There are university-owned stations doing a great job with the music. The format is dying as the one we came up with but will evolve. I hope these folks are able to help create a new "wave" of the future via some communication avenue and talk to us and help us feel REAL contemporary jazz, whether it's smooth or heavy. Give us music. Best wishes to all of you and those not mentioned. This is an incredible time and a quite unpredictable one in radio and in the format we used to really love. But these are among our greatest communicators of the genre doing their best with the latitude given them. I've heard most of them and they are great. Let them not be stripped of an opportunity to give us the sound of the musicians working so hard to be heard right now. Those musicians need these guys and more great communicators out there.
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Danae Alexander is my favorite smooth jazz jock. I love listening to her on WNUA - she makes smooth jazz come alive!
 
From listening to the various stations on the nets and through the different places I visited since we don't have an outlet where I am at.

Al Santos (big fan of the Sunday Brunch)/Van Niece Johnson/ Jay Lang (really miss you guys and hope another station picks up the format soon!!) (former WJZW in DC)
Lynn Briggs (love her Oasis Lounge show)/Cat Lee (KOAS)
Kelly Cole/Tayari Howard (KIFM)
Don Burns (this guy has the smoothest voice I have ever heard and it goes along perfectly with the smooth jazz format,especially with dealing with LA's crazy traffic) (KTWV)


Not technically local but...

Trinity (XM Watercolors)
Sandy Shore (Smoothjazz.com)
 
My fave is Alicia Kaye at WSJT/Tampa-St. Pete, and you forgot the crew at The Wave in LA (except for Don Burns). I like Talaya Trigueros there, great voice.

However, I also miss Ray White (ex-KKSF/SF-Oak-SJ), who has been gone for a while, he had a terrific show. I hardly ever stream KKSF anymore.
 
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