Got it. That's pretty amazing.
Anything that focuses on the Chuck Mangione era instead of sounding like an instrumental version of rap?
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Anything that focuses on the Chuck Mangione era instead of sounding like an instrumental version of rap?
I also would like to know this. Chuck Mangione is among my favorite Jazz or Jazz-like artists.
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I had a chance to listen to KUNV while visiting LV back in June...I was pleasantly surprised and enjoyed it, sends out a good signal down I-15 to the California border.
Seems almost a sacrilege to have a "smooth jazz" station in the home of real jazz.
And yet nobody has a problem with "country" stations playing Shaboozey or Post Malone in Nashville.
To be fair, country radio has never been completely true to the music's folksy, rural traditions. It's always played a commercialized form of the genre, whether it be syrupy countrypolitan crooning, trucking songs, bouncy pop ditties or line dance stompers. Even WSM(AM) generally plays hits from Nashville's past -- the music that was (as it is now) crafted, published and recorded in Nashville.
The Wave is also available in the Greater Toronto area on 94.7 and 95.9 both on HD2
They don't?
Check out the Saving Country Music blog sometime. Pretty much every artist or band discussed there is never played on country radio. Some of them even have decent fan bases, but their music doesn't click with the young females who make up a large part of the mainstream audience.
The older, 50s and 60s "Nashville Sound" is among my favorite genres.
The later outlaw country of the late 60s and 70s is pretty good too.
Country started sounding too modern for me by the early 2000s, and the 2010s-present have been little more than terrible CHR pop with "Nashville Twang" vocals and pedal steel guitars dubbed in.
Of course, I'm probably overgeneralizing a bit, but I'm an outlier who will probably never be happy with 99% of what counts as music on modern mainstream radio, Country or otherwise.
So, back to Smooth Jazz.
I discovered The Rippingtons earlier this year, and I rather like some of their material.
I think I heard it on some Smooth Jazz stream I discovered. Can't recall what it was called, though.
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I agree with a lot of this. Rockabilly is good too.
I didn't mind what they called the "Urban Cowboy" sound and I liked the new traditional country of the late 80s but not the junk that sounded like pop radio at that time.
90s country did not appeal to me for the most part but as even classic country stations have played it some of it sounds better than it did.
The best smooth jazz I've heard is City Lights on Muzak which used to play in a nursing home where some people from my church lived.
I don't like the music that is essentially instrumental urban contemporary, and I generally don't like the vocals.
I made a list of songs I liked somewhere, although in a lot of cases, I would be happier without the beat and I included them with the assumption that I wouldn't be able to hear the beat as clearly as I would if it were blasting from a stereo.