Jazz & Blues Lounge

Finding jazz on the radio has become a very difficult thing.  Essentially, if you want to listen to grea jazz music, you need to listen online or to your own CDs or maybe your MP3 player.  There’s nothing wrong with that, of course, but I am a guy who still enjoys actual radio shows.  This is probably because of my days in radio.

Here in Chicago, the local National Public Radio station used to play classic jazz all night long. Then they went and changed that and got rid of it.  It was rather sad, but the numbers over night were rather grim.  Now, there is WDCB, which I rave about constantly on here.  The only complaint I have about it is that WDCB still doesn’t play jazz 24 hours a day.  They mix it up with other things.

I think this is just the way of jazz radio.  Finding a classic jazz rado station is impossible.  The best you can do is find some cool jazz radio programs.

I am a former resident of St. Louis.  St. Louis also happens to be a great town for blues an jazz.  This is where I went to college and I lived in the city for about three years after college.  Of course, the station where I got my start was the Webster University station KSLH which was all jazz.  Sadly, this station no longer exists.

There is a public radio station and they have a radio show that plays jazz.  In a recent poll run by the local weekly alternative newspaper, the Riverfront Times, the jazz program on KWMU was voted the best jazz on the air.  The show is called “Jazz Unlimited.”

The cool thing about technology is that you can listen to radio shows at any time thanks to the wonders of podcasting.  I checked and, thakfully, you can check out “Jazz Unlimited” shows archived online.  So, I wanted to point you to them

So, to listen, click HERE.

The show runs live every Sunday night from 9 pm to midnight.  The host is Dennis Owsley.  If you happen to be in or around St. Louis,  you may want to check it out.

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