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I think he is only half right. There is a place for such a station (not that dissimilar to the early Jazz FM), but Jazz FM has long been a barrier to London getting another license to cover this music. Why grant a jazz license when we already have Jazz FM? No matter that it does not play much jazz. Now that it is going, the field is cleared for a consortium to put together an interesting alternative station.
Let's see Somethin' Else teaming up with Gilles Peterson, Sir Norman Jay, Patrick Forge, Charlie Gillett, World Circuit and Rough Guides to provide a bristling alternative station full of the sounds of global music culture from Desi beats to cutting-edge jazz, drum and bass to Malian praise songs, Turkish hip hop to Brazilian classics and Latin dance floor fillers.
Welcome to Global FM.
Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Rough justice Given the rude health of the jazz scene, many of us thought that one day someone would take a cool look at Jazz FM and transform the station into the real thing. Instead, it was announced last Monday that the London radio station (owned by the Guardian Media Group) is to be "rebranded" later this year as Smooth FM. What a blow.
Interesting to hear that others are disappointed in Jazz fm: since acquiring broadband I’ve tried Jazz fm but have yet to hear any jazz. Anybody know a good jazz radio station?
This French station has a good selection of blues and jazz www.tsfjazz.com and there are also a few jazz shows on the BBC’s Radio player at www.bbc.co.uk/radio
I now listen on line to Jazz FM91.This is a Canadian Station which broadcasts REAL jazz from 11am(our time)until very late.
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And it was all so promising. The test broadcasts were great. Non-stop Jazz, Blues, Soul and Funk and no DJ’s. Of course, when it started proper, Gilles & Jez Nelson set the pace in the evenings and weekends. Even daytime DJ’s like Peter Young showed he had good taste freed of a Capital Radio play list to stick to. However, it was as long ago as 1990 when Gilles got the boot and it’s never been the same since. Even the likes of Helen Mayhew who hosted the dreadful ‘flagship jazz programme Dinner Jazz’ jumped flagships for the Beeb earlier this year. Fair play for the Manchester version of the station having a Sunday Soul session with ex-Wigan Casino man Richard Searling, but they missed a trick not streaming the shows on the internet for Northern exiles in the rest of the Country/World. So now they are Smooth they haven’t wasted anytime getting rid of their library of Jazz vinyl. LP’s and 12s have appeared in a well-known chain of second hand shops in London this week. So I know for a fact that Smooth FM won’t be playing anything off Gong’s 1976 avant-jazz-rock album ‘Gazeuse!’ as I’ve got it. The polite ‘Please Return Promptly’ sticker is now irrelevant. Whilst you won’t find they’ve got rid of Keni Burke’s ìseminal & soothing soul gemî ‘Rising To The Top’ as they are playing it as I type this. As good as it is, how many times do they play it? Day after day, week after week. I predicted Smooth to follow Jazz FM’s sad decline. RIP JFM and bring on Global FM.