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Steely Dan.....on KPLU?
- Thread starter Bongwater
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Bongwater said:
...and?
Maybe they should do some "peg"
Probably came from the request line. 1AM is the PERFECT time to play requests~. I am sure they are getting some pressure from newer listeners to go more rhythmic pop and slow grooves ever since KWJZ swtiched to Click.
What is needed is an adult rhythmic-type station. Perhaps The Mountain can fill that void sometime soon.
What is needed is an adult rhythmic-type station. Perhaps The Mountain can fill that void sometime soon.
Perhaps the greater fear is that they will go all blues, or more blues. What I hear creeping more and more onto KPLU is blues tracks.
The Saturday night show is very popular and many jazz/urban artists are doing more blues now. John Mayall at Jazz Alley?
The Saturday night show is very popular and many jazz/urban artists are doing more blues now. John Mayall at Jazz Alley?
I've been noticing a lot more uptempo brass, New Orleans-style "hot jazz," and instrumental covers of easily recognizable pop songs mixed into the KPLU jazz format. Ever since Dick Stein made one of his obtuse remarks a couple of months ago about listeners who want to hear more brass.
Personally, I think it cheapens the over sound of their jazz format, by stretching it a bit too far into the Dr. John territory that usually defines their weekend blues format. They've been great at featuring a lot of piano, guitar, and small combos, and including enough medium and down tempo material each hour to be the only station on the dial where their music programming helped me to relax and decompress, and put a nice mood in the house. Now, about 1/3 of what I've been hearing during the day is starting to sound like toe-tappin' finger-snappin' muzak. Stuff that would probably sound better performed live at a classic car show than on my radio. I am not so much of a fan of the station's music mix anymore.
if you want to hear a jazz format that skews very heavy into brass and uptempo Latin jazz, try KCSM San Mateo, Calif. But in mostly-rainy, soft light Seattle (the sky, not the streetlights), I found the more relaxed sounds of Eliane Elias, Pat Metheney, Vince Guaraldi, and even Miles Davis preferable to the caffeinated sounds coming out of San Mateo and every other music format on my radio. They're still in rotation on KPLU, but the other material is taking it a little further into "fuzak" and "hot time" territory than I would prefer. And why there's actually more than one or two music formats in the genre you could call "jazz."
Personally, I think it cheapens the over sound of their jazz format, by stretching it a bit too far into the Dr. John territory that usually defines their weekend blues format. They've been great at featuring a lot of piano, guitar, and small combos, and including enough medium and down tempo material each hour to be the only station on the dial where their music programming helped me to relax and decompress, and put a nice mood in the house. Now, about 1/3 of what I've been hearing during the day is starting to sound like toe-tappin' finger-snappin' muzak. Stuff that would probably sound better performed live at a classic car show than on my radio. I am not so much of a fan of the station's music mix anymore.
if you want to hear a jazz format that skews very heavy into brass and uptempo Latin jazz, try KCSM San Mateo, Calif. But in mostly-rainy, soft light Seattle (the sky, not the streetlights), I found the more relaxed sounds of Eliane Elias, Pat Metheney, Vince Guaraldi, and even Miles Davis preferable to the caffeinated sounds coming out of San Mateo and every other music format on my radio. They're still in rotation on KPLU, but the other material is taking it a little further into "fuzak" and "hot time" territory than I would prefer. And why there's actually more than one or two music formats in the genre you could call "jazz."
FMSteve said:
well from what i find out is most all smooth jazz stations changed to click format stations. there are maybe like 10 or so smooth jazz stations left on us airwaves. all the rest went to online streaming. now we never know who is coming to play in town say at jazz alley or the tripple door unless we look all that stuff up. also at times when i wanted to listen to some music it was either oldies/classic rock or smooth jazz mainly. sad they had to change format
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